Friday Links and Videos

Enjoy some really good videos from Celebrate Fairfax and interesting links to help you get through your Friday.

Do you have a blog and want to determine whether your writing is male or female? I don't understand how "the" and "a" are male/female words. [Gender Genie]

The US county with the highest life expectancy of men is Fairfax County, VA. Hey, guess where I live? This blog could be around for many decades! [WTOP]

A profile of ESPN's Bill Simmons [New York Times]

Washington DC radio station Hot 99.5 has introduced the Hotty Awards to determine the hottest food, people, places, and things going on in DC. In exchange for this link, I look forward to the station giving me Wicked tickets. Concert tickets? Movie tickets? A T-shirt? [Hot 99.5]

We interrupt the links to watch Third Eye Blind performing Semi-Charmed Life at this year's Celebrate Fairfax.



Cory breaks down the Pirates 37-37 record. If only the Pirates didn't have to play the Brewers. [Three Rivers Burgh Blog]

The story of the Vancouver riot kissing couple. {Yahoo's Puck Daddy]

Mr. Brame won an iPod from Bill Nye the Science Guy [Mr. Brame's Blog]

The Penguins re-sign minor leaguer Ben Street. Yes, Ben Street's back. All right! [Pensburgh]

Finally, here is The Bangles performing Walk Like an Egyptian at this year's Celebrate Fairfax. Susanna Hoffs still looks good.