Around the Blogs, Vol. 46: World Cup Special

1. Timely! Read the CoR with a constant noise of vuvuzelas. Or any other webpage. (Pointer)

2. Learn watching football with Zonal Marking. For example: How Australia shot themselves in the foot against Germany.

3. Killjoy dept.: "South Africa has annual GDP per capita of about 10,000, and 50% of the population lives below the poverty line. I’m sure they will be easily able to pay the principal and interest on the $1.4 billion in debt issued to build and renovate stadiums for the Word Cup, and the ongoing operations and maintenance costs."

4. Surprises and respectability as functions of amount of scoring, with an application to the World Cup. (Warning: Skip comments section!)