Link Roundup
- Twinsville: Everything you ever wanted to know about the new Twins stadium. Including the fact that it’s going to be called Twinsville. (via an affair with urban policy)
- The Patrick Henry High School choir sings some holiday favorites. Scroll down a little. (via buzz.mn)
- Giant wooden crib floats to shore in Duluth. It was originally built and sunk to serve as a support structure for a railroad servicing a grain elevator. The people of Duluth are delighted.
- Northwest could buy Mesaba. This is not surprising to me, though the extent of the control that Northwest already has over Mesaba is.
- HWY 55 Tailgating Safety Project: Mn/DOT painted these dots on the road and you’re supposed to stay at least two dots behind the car in front of you. I’d go check it out, but you have to go all the way out to Wright County. I get twitchy just going outside the 494/694 loop. (via Roadguy)
- MNspeakers discuss what’s cool in North Minneapolis. Or they start out that way, anyway. The conversation quickly devolves, then sort of makes a comeback.
- Two Cities Two Wheels has a great wrap-up from the St. Paul Bike Summit that was held back in September.
- The Minneapoline: “Minneapolis St. Paul Street Fashion” aka “Things I would not be caught dead wearing except maybe on Halloween if I didn’t hate dressing up for Halloween.” (via east-lake.net)
- Andy sums up the year in gay news in MN.
- McClatchy selling Star Tribune. *yawn*
- NEWS FLASH: Ice rinks not doing so well in warm-so-far winter.
- mnpACT’s list of the 10 Worst Minnesota Politicians of 2006. Michele Bachmann’s only #6. Norm Coleman’s #2. I didn’t think he was unusually bad this year. (via the Minnesota Monitor)
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I am so not okay with the name Twinsville.
I agree with Wendy. I think the new home for our Hennepin County Twins should be “The Boondoggle”.
Is “Twinsville” better or worse than “Corporate Sponsor Field”?
Although, frankly (to me), that whole corporate sponsor naming of the fields really depends on the name of the corporate sponsor.
Ford Field: Not so bad.
Minute Maid Park: Ennnhhhh.
Target Center: Not so bad.
Xcel Energy Center: Only gets away with it because you can call it “The X.”
Edward Jones Dome: Uh, no.
Comerica Park: Not really.
Maybe the shorter the sponsor name, the better. And whatever happened to naming facilities after people (e.g. Joe Louis Arena)? (Edward Jones is an investment company; I looked that one up.)