July 2009
The upside of being flamed →
On giving Goldman a chance →
But the implicit assumption of these arguments about strategy is that there is, somewhere out there, a workable strategy. That there is some way to navigate our political system such that you enact wise legislation solving pressing problems. But that’s an increasingly uncertain assumption, I think. Imagine a group of men sitting in a dim prison cell. One of the walls has a window. Beyond...
The brilliant NFL overtime silent auction system →
Indie Bands Attempt to Game Hype Machine Charts in... →
June 2009
He Who Shall Not Be Named Pens His Saddest Column... →
Shooter McGavin would call this "a free lesson."...
So how does YouTube bring in revenue? Well, it tries to sell advertisements alongside its videos. The problem is that the videos attracted by psychological Free—pirated material, cat videos, and other forms of user-generated content—are not the sort of thing that advertisers want to be associated with. In order to sell advertising, YouTube has had to buy the rights to professionally produced...
The Punchable Faces of…Adam Duritz! →
Retired Marine Corps Col. Kenneth L. Reusser, called the most decorated Marine aviator in history and was shot down in three wars, has died at age 89. Reusser flew 253 combat missions in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and was shot down in all three, five times in all. His 59 medals included two Navy Crosses, four Purple Hearts and two Legions of Merit. In 1945, while based in Okinawa, he...
“They can’t quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in...”
– McCain Staffers Dish on Palin
Area Mother Can Only Imagine What Son Is Eating... →
Halftime, 2-0. →
“The type of fame that Elvis had, and that I think Michael Jackson has, the...”
– Bruce Springsteen (via beekeeperssociety)
How Michael Jackson helped start the Patriots... →
“For all the criticisms that exist about writing on the internet, this situation...”
– Cajun Boy
“If your livelihood depends on it, like it does for most farmers, then of course...”
– Living the dream, with goats
I don’t know anyone like this yet, but I...
The Future Of Pornographic Fast Food Advertising →
The Top 14 Punctuation Marks
screwrocknroll:
In order, from best to worst, with some help from Ed Okulicz
1. ; The Semi-Colon
Anyone who has read my writing knows of my love for the semi-colon; it really is the most divine punctuation mark the English language has devised to date. Have two slightly related clauses you wish to jam together into one glorious and verbose sentence? Look to the semi-colon. Any piece of...
"But it would be a shame if the fact that... →
Son, Mark Sanford has GAME
Three and finally, while all the things above are all too true - at the same time we are in a hopelessly - or as you put it impossible - or how about combine and simply say hopelessly impossible situation of love. How in the world this lightening strike snuck up on us I am still not quite sure. As I have said to you before I certainly had a special feeling about you from the first time we met,...
The Speed At Which Wrong Information Flows →
In Focus: Apple Employee Fired For Thinking... →
The One-And-Done Should Be Done →
So, you want to be a Gmail ninja? →
Actual candor from Jack Welch →
R. Kelly accidentally confesses in song →
“I will tell you this about iLiver 2.0: It’s nanoengineered, and it kicks...”
– Fake Steve Jobs is back. Awesome.
Roger Ebert is just awesome
The human actors are in a witless sitcom part of the time, and lot of the rest of their time is spent running in slo-mo away from explosions, although—hello!—you can’t outrun an explosion. They also make speeches like this one by John Turturro: “Oh, no! The machine is buried in the pyramid! If they turn it on, it will destroy the sun! Not on my watch!” The humans,...
In Focus: Smoking Now Permitted Only In Special... →
And You Thought Friendster Was So 2003 →
“AS I’VE MENTIONED BEFORE, Any fantasy baseballist has more in common with...”
– John Hodgman (via merlin)
Why I write for free →
Today In Ostensible Leaders of the GOP: Mitch... →
Wild, Unattached Twenties Spent At Work →
“Last thing: In attempting to convince you to buy this book, or check it out of...”
– Dave Eggers, from the foreword to the paperback edition of Infinite Jest.
Infinite Summer begins today.
Persian For Beginners →
It starts weird and then gets really good
Q. Your PR materials insist that you “have a great deal of street cred.” I am frankly skeptical. Can you elaborate?
H: My dude, we can take a walk around the corner right now. Pause.
V: Rick Ross was a corrections officer, Ice Cube was the son of two college professors, Tupac was a theater kid in high school, Drake was on Degrassi, De La Soul are from the suburbs. The Clipse,...
Obama, Gay Rights, and The LeBron Factor →
Phenomenal Swag: Jordan lunchbox →
“I’ve downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records - why would I care if...”
– Robin Pecknold
This Week in F–k You: Labradoodle Owners →