Hoosier lore

One of the ways pranskers amuse themselves these days is to hack electronic road signs. One near the Univeristy of Texas was hacked with the messages "Caution! Zombines Ahead!" abd "Nazi Zombies! Run!!!" Now, one in Indiana has been hacked:

Even those who more or less ignore popular culture have to pay some attention to the Super Bowl if they want to stay in the conversation (the top three TV shows of all time for viewership are last year's Super Bowl, this year's Super Bowl and the "M*A*S*H" finale). The game was one of the more exciting ones, not decided until the waning minutes of the last quarter.

Add Richard Lugar to the list of those who think our gas taxes are too low:

Mayor Henry is heading to Washington with other Indiana mayors to lobby (sorry, forgot that practice will be strictly forbidden by the president) plead for a piece of the stimulus pie. And all he wants is a measly $300 million out of all those hundreds of billions.

Here we go again with the stupid red-light cameras. At least in New York they're not going on and on with a lot of disingenuous drivel about "public safety":

Drivers beware: Big Brother could be watching you at every Big Apple intersection soon.

The mayor's preliminary budget released Friday proposes to amend state law to allow for traffic-light cameras at "unlimited locations" in the city and to raise the fine from $50 to $100.

The Indiana State University basketball team fell 61057 to the University of Northern Iowa, and this is the headline they put on the story:

Still close, still no cigar for ISU men against UNI

I know all of you must be just like me, can't get enough of the Katie Stam story. Some people are now saying the new Miss America is not just another pretty face:

The controversy: Does she or does she not have man hands? Here are some of the comments from the site, then go take a look and judge for yourself.

An Indiana University study has spent good money to discover something any man over the age of 16 could have told them:

Don't take flirtatious women for granted. They may not be be interested in you at all but are just being friendly, says a new study.

People of both sexes looking for romance are quite good at reading the male's interest, but equally bad at misjudging the female's interest.

If the mean old GOP was trying to intimidate the poor widdle Democrats into staying home on Election Day, it was a spectacular failure:

Miss America, the beauty pageant scholarship contest winner formerly known as Miss Indiana, is apparently no shrinking violet:

When it was clear she had emerged as a favorite of the judges, she and a group of other leading contenders were asked, "Why should you be Miss America?"

Stam, 22, boldly grabbed the bull by the horns in a manner rarely seen in the pageant world, where so much is riding on the right response.