March 2010
Tiger Beatdown › 11 Things I Learned From Watching... →
“Perhaps our zeitgeist has deteriorated to the point that it is literally impossible to touch upon any subject even remotely related to B-movie subjects from the 1970s without reference to QT — up to and including people of color fighting, prison movies, and God help us but I fear this will prove to be so, lesbianism.” A great start to a pretty interesting post that has very...
Mar 31st
Middle School Kids Acting Like Kids In Middle... →
“Anyway, I’m glad to see Axe body spray is being used for some actual purpose other than skipping showers.”
Mar 30th
The Death of the Pageview - ReadWriteStart  →
While it would be lovely if it were that simple, the problem I see is like this: Our local newspaper is using (it seems to me) a pageview model for its website, based on: Links on the front page (attractive women photo galleries, weird news) Semi-recent move to paginating longer stories, sometime to the ridiculous point of having one line on the second page—this after a long time without...
Mar 24th
The Somali Pirates' Business Model | UN Dispatch →
What I learned: these guys make (and require) some serious jack.
Mar 24th
Lady Gaga & Beyoncé Kill in "Telephone" - E!... →
Pretty interesting. Like most of the videos I link, absolutely beautifully shot and edited. Also, Gaga.
Mar 12th
"Unanswered" Questions That Answer Themselves in... →
This sounds a lot like Nevada. I’m not sure it’s as simple as this (obviously), but I’m not sure it’s much more complicated, either.
Mar 11th
How To Destroy Baseball In One Easy Step -... →
Yeah this is just weird. And I’m not all traditionalist with baseball or anything. While the intent would be to allow teams to compete by shifting to weaker divisions, it would also allow some teams to switch divisions in order to save/make more money and change the way teams are built.
Mar 11th
Smiling Helps You Live Longer, Particularly If You... →
Nice.
Mar 6th
Tiger's Caddy Wishes He Had Gone For The Cockblock... →
“Last night Williams gave an interview to New Zealand’s 60 Minutes, which I can only assume has Xena and Gimli in the places of Lesley Stahl and Andy Rooney.” It’s worth a visit just for the quote above.
Mar 4th
My Roger Ebert Story [Roger Ebert] →
As Roger Ebert stories go, it’s a good one.
Mar 1st