May 2009
Google Wave: A Complete Guide →
University of Illinois' "clout list" determines... →
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N. Korea Detonates 40 Years Of GDP →
“My only editing note to Tim and Eric, after we’d shot the first clip,”...”
– Zach Galifianakis (via hellofriend) I could mine this story for a dozen quotes, but I think this is my favorite paragraph.
World Beard and Mustache Championship winners... →
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The Making of Zach Galifianakis →
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Hulu Desktop Is a Peek at the Future of TV →
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Will GOP regret attacks on The Times? →
“If conservatives were to look up from hammering nails in the Times’ coffin, they might notice that there is a growing web-based journalism infrastructure preparing to supplant their bête noir. It’s an infrastructure that is not only more liberal than the Times but also less inhibited by the paper’s habits of deference to power and concern for open debate and fair play. Having evolved in...
Microsoft hoping its latest multi-billion-dollar... →
Good luck with that …
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Google Wave Drips With Ambition →
I never thought I'd reblog Dear Abby →
Dear Abby:
About four months ago, the house across the street was sold to a “father and son”—or so we thought. We later learned it was an older man about 50 and a young fellow about 24. This was a respectable neighborhood before this “odd couple” moved in. They have all sorts of strange looking company. Men who look like women and women who look like men, blacks,...
Music Labels Cut Friendlier Deals With Start-Ups →
… only 5 years too late!
Czech Nurses to Receive Bigger Boobs as Hiring... →
New Simon Pegg / Nick Frost comedy gets a cast →
“The cast will include Jason Bateman, Jane Lynch, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, and Seth Rogen…”
Warship sunk off Florida to create artificial reef →
I used to have this beat down in Key West. Wild.
“I said it’s cool, get at me
And then my voice got raspy
‘Cause I...”
– Ludacris
I can understand only about 2/3rds of the preceding, but I find I often get this particular lyric stuck in my head years after I heard it. Does that happen to anyone else? Yeah, me neither.
“Automatic character recognition lets people who are having the work scanned know...”
– New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines
Comedians have yet to figure out how to mock... →
“When it comes to editorial content, meaningful news about government, politics,...”
– Newspaper Narcissism
Mother of Purdue Bomb Hoax Suspect Sues for Son’s... →
WHOM/WHAT IS “U.S.”? AND WHO/WHAT IS “USOA?”
To illustrate this next point, presume first that “United States” (”U.S.”) is insolvent. Then presume that “United States of America” (”USOA”) shows up as a/the representative of that insolvent estate. Thus, in addition to the facts that (A) Plaintiff (USOA) is not the eo nomine party, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 17, and (B) both the Plaintiff (USOA) and...
“Denounced for decades as a millstone preventing growth and competitiveness,...”
– Rich People Things: The Great Lie About Social Security And France | The Awl (via offnotesnotes)
Supreme Court: Suspects Can Be Interrogated... →
The Bush legacy lives on, with the help of Obama.
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'Grandmother of World's 23rd Best Economist... →
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Facebook Valued At $10 Billion →
For those of you keeping score, that’s down from a $15 billion valuation during Microsoft’s investment two years ago.
Take Your Pick →
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“If you’re paralyzed by existential trauma, there’s an app for that.”
– App for That (via Daily log. by David Kaneda.)
“The California Supreme Court has decided to uphold proposition 8 which bans...”
– @BreakingNews
#TyrannyOfTheMajority
60% of Twitterers Quit →
(via @KarenMSams)
I think this story is very wrong about Twitter. First, I bet more people leave because of the UX. Most people probably don’t have a social community telling them about all of the various apps available for Twitter. Second, why did anyone expect the Oprah-moms to stick around? Do they blog anywhere else? The hate-Twitter train is long enough now that smart people...