July 2012
19 posts
These two things are equivalent
Wikipedia quote of the day
1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet. On the same day, Chris Jericho makes his WWF debut by interrupting The Rock with a millennium clock.
I love you, Wikipedia
Not My Business
Last weekend I saw a movie at Regal Cinemas (yes, that one), and before the movie trailers they ran two ads. The first, which they started running last year, features a montage of fake movie scenes slowly shrink to the size of a computer screen, and after scolding the audience that “No Movie Should be Reduced to This,” the computer blows up and we’re told to “GO BIG OR...
Building superintendent discovers secret NYPD safe... →
nickdouglas:
The NYPD tried to cover it up, but the Associated Press sued and finally got the records (and the 911 call that revealed the safe house) released.
Brilliantly, the NYPD has been encouraging people to call 911 about suspicious behavior exactly like their own. In New York, we see signs in every subway: “If you see something, say something.” The police are trying hard to cultivate a...
“This is stupid. There is no such thing as “politicizing” tragedy. James Holmes...”
– There Is No Such Thing as ‘Politicizing’ a Tragedy
The best way of saying what I’ve been thinking all weekend.
An Imagined Dialogue
LL: Mercy, please come in.
MG: Yes, sir?
LL: P.R. just called. Apparently the Planet is planning on running an exposé on our hiring practices. They accuse me of paying my female employees a quarter less than I pay my men.
MG: Yes, sir?
LL: Well, that’s absurd. You know the human resources of this company better than I. We don’t do that, do we?
MG: Yes, sir, we do.
LL: What? We...
No, Kickstarter is Not the #2 Graphic Novel... →
My article published on Tor.com yesterday, but the more I think about it the angrier I get.
Publishers Weekly suggested Kickstarter is the number two graphic novel publisher. Publishers Weekly. The magazine for the publishing industry got the definition of a publisher wrong and used super fuzzy math in order to produce the flashy headline.
And they did it two years in a row.
And then the...
Romney's policy proposals are so nuts that focus... →
This could be a problem
Watchnudiemuse:
cassie-cooties:
three-toed-sloth:
m-ammals:
jonbloom:
the cutest bear attack ever
YOU GET HIM, LITTLE BEAR!
honestly, cutest thing EVER
hehe the little bear is all like ‘I’m going to kill you!’ and he’s just petting him!
Live footage of the notorious baby Heskenbear.
This is adorable, but I can’t help but feel like it ended because a Momma Bear tore the...
Bits, Bricks, and Balls: the Penny Arcade...
A Tale of Two Kickstarters
Early this year, Rich Burlew refinanced the print collections of his hit gaming web comic Order of the Stick with a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Hoping to make roughly $60,000 to put just one of his books back in print, Burlew ended up raising $1,254,120, that is 2000% success, which allowed him to print major print runs of all his books
And today, Mike...
It's not that crazy
So the craziest thing about “Call Me, Maybe,” besides how ridiculously catchy it is, and its insistence that “crazy,” “chase me,” and “maybe” rhyme, is that nothing she describes in the song is that crazy.
What happens? She meets a hot guy who is exactly her type, it’s a hot day, he’s showing a lot of skin and she… gives him her...
So I was on the radio today, WHCR 90.3 FM, talking...
Twenty Bucks Says It's Portman
So apparently Romney has narrowed his VP shortlist down to four:
four contenders have risen through the ranks: Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
If this list is accurate, and that’s a big if, then I think Romney has an interesting choice, and I think he’s going to make the less interesting one.
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