January 2010
WatchThe Vice Guide to Liberia. Excellent film.
Dullard Mush: Democrat F-Bombs, Newspaper Pay... →
Heh.
I Love Walled Gardens, by Rory Marinich →
Huge yes to this post. I am interested in openness in the web and devices built for the web, but I just don’t think they matter. This guy makes some outstanding points about how they muck everything up and can just serve to waste time.
Kindle was already limited by its closed platform →
I disagree. Readers will want to read their books on devices that work well. Openness and customizability is a weird thing that geeks love to talk about but never seems to be necessary to the masses buying things like, say, iPods.
★ The iPad Big Picture →
Brilliant post in its entirety. As I thought about this thing all day, as a lover of things moving mobile, I got more excited about it. I am hardly an analyst or pundit when it comes to technology, but I am an avid consumer of it. I also am admittedly (and obviously) incredibly biased toward all products Apple.
With that, I offer a short opinion on this thing. It’s going to be a gigantic...
Man arrested 74 times in 24 months →
Can you get arrested for “resisting arrest?”
A Myth of Grass-Fed Beef - Freakonomics Blog -... →
Hmmm. So a movement is possibly ignorant to the facts or is fudging them to make their point? Who would have thought?
Tired of people getting their news for free,... →
What I love about these moves by news companies is that they will say it doesn’t matter because all of their print subscribers and all of the local cable company subscribers have free access. What they fail to understand (or at least admit when they spin it) is that they’re now not growing. They have 35 new people. That’s it. The print subscribers have it. Great. So we’re...
Gridiron time →
This is so funny.
The Vice Guide to Liberia | MetaFilter →
I have been watching this as they come out and it’s really something. Vice seems to me to be the absolute best when it comes to creating interesting, ballsy documentaries on the web. Their guide to North Korea is about an hour long and had me in a trance the one day I sat down to watch it straight through. They do things that I haven’t seen anywhere else and they are also good at just...
Haiti earthquake: 360° video - Special Coverage on... →
This is way cool. It looks like they’re shooting with a 360 degree camera view and putting the footage together in a way that makes it interactive. Outstanding stuff.
Mark Sanchez Is The New JaMarcus Russell, Only... →
Wow. I had no idea Sanchez was this bad. And I actually had no idea Russell was as good as the numbers indicate, even thought they’re not that good. They’re still better than I thought.
About those cruise ships docking at Haiti... →
It’s hard to disagree with this.
Company Introduces Sarcasm Punctuation Mark,... →
I hate this idea. How dumb could it be, really? The point of sarcasm is to see who gets the joke, right? I’ve always hated when people do the </sarcasm> thing because if you have to say it’s sarcasm, it’s not funny anymore!
Rotating the dishes →
Interesting. Since we now make our kids empty the dishwasher, I’ll have to figure out how to implement this.
Meet America's First Legal Male Prostitute →
I think this guy used to live across the street from us in our first house.
Los Angeles Music - Amanda Blank: Philadelphia... →
She fascinates me. Except I was shocked to hear that she wouldn’t care to hear “Bump” again.
Moscow Mule recipe →
Yes.
Nevada lawmaker per diems double their base pay |... →
This is obviously good stuff.
Six months of Pinboard →
I like Pinboard a lot. The problem is I like Tumblr a lot, too. I use Pinboard for my To Read links and when I comment on them I send them over to Tumblr. I got in early-ish, I think and paid around $5.00 for the service. If I remember correctly, he set up a payment plan where the price was based on how many users there were. At $5.00 I think there were something like 5,000 or 50,000 users and it...
Won't Get Fooled Again →
This link led me to about an hour of watching various songs this kid covers on his drums. You must check this out.
The rise of the punter →
I think special teams lack the credit they deserve, mostly because they’re usually the nameless guys on the team, but having a good punter can alter games for teams.
30 Bloggers To Avoid in 2010 | The Awl →
Haha. I love that the list of bloggers to watch features a guy called @problogger and, get this, it’s on problogger.com!
Alabama quarterback touching all the bases →
OK, in the all-important Jerz Bowl, I now know who I’ll be rooting for. Roll Tide!
'Avatar' And Ke$ha: A Denominator In Common? →
I haven’t seen ‘Avatar’ but I have heard this Ke$ha song. The song is catchy and enjoyable, but I’m also not one to worry about lyrics until I worry about lyrics. It’s a totally subjective thing for me, and with most pop I just don’t care. Anyway, the Ke$ha son is fun. I imagine ‘Avatar’ to be fun when I see it. But in thinking about all of it, yeah,...
Matt Kemp is moving up in the world. →
Yeah, Matt Kemp. He’s pretty good, if I’m hearing correctly.
Reno animal testing lab fined after macaque killed... →
Interestingly, the way to ensure that animals are treated properly by their human overseers in this lab is to de-humanize the humans.
“Since an animal died, the training was not of sufficient frequency to remind the people to thoroughly look for animals before having the cages washed,” the report said. “This is important for the health and safety of all the animals.”
That’s not language...
Best Buy Optimization Is A Big Stupid Annoying... →
It comes down to this: Best Buy is evil.
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