Vorg america blog
The Oldest Trophy in the World
I know you've all been wondering: "what's going on in the world of the America's Cup lately?"
Well, exciting things have been going on, that's what.

It all started at the end of the last challenge, when the Swiss team Alinghi (of Societe Nautique de Geneve) successfully defended the cup. Shortly after, Bertarelli (the billionaire owner of team Alinghi) declared that Club Náutico Español de Vela were the challengers of record for the next cup. A club, that only existed in paper, and which he controlled. The set of rules that came out of those "talks" were so controversial, that Larry Ellison (the billionaire owner of team BMW Oracle) took them to court.

As it has so many times in the past, the New York Supreme court sat and heard arguments, consulted the Deed of Gift, and precedence. Eventually they ruled in favour for Oracle and the Golden Gate Yacht Club, and the challenge was set. Of course, given that they each have tons of money, and many lawyers, there have been many, many suits since that time. Bertarelli (aka the cheating bastard) has lost nearly all of them


In the meantime the design specifications that Oracle put forth, rather than being a complicated set of rules and walking away from the old formula:


Was ridiculously straight forward, it had to fight in 90' by 90' box, essentially, a baseball diamond.

Well, this is how you advance the world of sailing, give two of the top 100 richest men on the planet, carte blanche to build a fast boat. Here are the results:
Posted by LePhil on December 19, 2009. Tagged with
656 words in full |

 

We are the Diamonds, we come from Glasgow
For those of you who think you're too cool for the CFL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utsHE5xWges
Posted by dye! on April 28, 2009. Tagged with

 

Battle of maps
Can anyone do better?

View Larger Map


Grotere kaart weergeven
Posted by dye! on April 20, 2009. Tagged with
| Read 4 Replies...

 

Surrendermonkeys
In northern Michigan a few weeks ago, we visited Fort Mackinac, the first American fort to surrender to the British in the War of 1812. We were treated to the following animatronic display, repeated every 45 seconds or so:

Posted by chrisdye on August 18, 2007. Tagged with

 

Missing Class
This is neither silly nor technical, but it's a neat article about everything that's wrong with American universities, and I felt like sharing.

Adrienne, I expect you to explain its conclusions with great exasperation to your mother at some point in the next week.
Posted by goodladd on March 14, 2007. Tagged with
| Read 1 Reply...

 

Apologies to the Queen
Look, I know this is a Canadian blog, but I live in dirty ugly America now and I still consider myself a member of this darn community.

I just wanted to say, despite the fact that it likely will change very little in reality, I am happy the Democrats took Congress here.

At least it means the vast majority of voters are not dumb idiots. Thats nice to know every once in a while (in this case, 12 years!)
Posted by Gbrowdy on November 9, 2006. Tagged with
| Read 1 Reply...

 


Tag CloudFull Archives
   

VorgTag Cloud

Vorg america RSS feed RSS

Latest Photo
Quote of Now:
Friends
Popular Posts
Computer Games

Hey You! Subscribe to the Vorg america RSS feed.
Or get wider media from the Vorg All Topic feed.

 
 

Members login here.
© Vorg Group.