Site of the week: Get your major league geek on. Baseball season arrives next week. Never too soon to start looking at stats for your fantasy league, or for more evidence that your Rockies just aren’t going to cut it this year. A mathematics professor at Saint Joseph’s University created baseball-reference.com for all things diamond-related; you can search by player or team or just about any other filter you could imagine.
Watch this Web video: One of the more popular sites on YouTube these days is by an Argentinian who uses Photoshop web tools to make “speed paintings” of famous figures. The hot views now are of a couple of characters from the “Lost” TV series, but Nico Di Mattia has also done Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Scarlett Johansson and others. He uses time-lapse technology to put the speed into the painting, at youtube.com/profile?user=macpulen ta.-Michael Booth
