Archive for the ‘Social’ Category
So true.
March 28th, 2008 | Business, Social | Comment »Betwixt Zach Galifianakis clips, I stumbled upon some tech articles. This one had a nice opening: Technology journalists from the mainstream media appear obsessed with locating some magic bullet with which to topple Google from its dominant position in today’s Web, and use of violent language seems part and parcel of ... Read more »
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Right, which means…exactly.
March 25th, 2008 | Social | Comment »From a Yahoo! news story: "It is common to find people of French Canadian descent to be related to large numbers of other French Canadians," said genealogist Christopher Child, who conducted the research.Related posts: TJ is sooo going to be traded. Read more »
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Oh, Fox.
March 25th, 2008 | Social | Comment »At first I was really impressed with Fox's legalese. Then I saw what they were trying to defend. Please. Seriously? Calling the FCC's decision to fine it $91,000 for indecency "arbitrary and capricious, inconsistent with precedent and patently unconstitutional," Fox Television has notified the agency that it will not pay the ... Read more »
Elisabeth Murdoch
March 24th, 2008 | Business, Social | Comment »Great article from The New York Times on Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's eldest child who recently purchased Reveille Productions, the producers of The Office and Ugly Betty, for around $125 million. “Why I love TV, and I see it in print journalism too, is that the audience will tell you that ... Read more »
Yummy?
March 17th, 2008 | Social | Comment »A Texas newspaper reports that a man's been arrested for selling bottles of vodka with 10" rattlesnakes inside them. TABC officials said alcohol containing snakes or scorpions is popular in Asian cultures. An Internet search found operations selling Thai scorpion vodka, cobra whiskey, giant centipede whiskey, herbal gecko lizard wine and ... Read more »
On the art of not being a douche.
March 17th, 2008 | Social | Comment »It's not tough. Just don't be one. Read more »
Dropbox…The next Google?
March 17th, 2008 | Social | Comment »There are so many things in this that make me think that it's a fake, or that it's an elaborate prank. But let's pretend for the time-being that it's real. In that case, it's pretty damn cool, and pretty damn useful. But a couple obvious downers are the fact that ... Read more »
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Rice Krispie Squares
March 16th, 2008 | Social | Comment »I'm not sure what we used to do wrong when we made them, but we could never make them this chewy and gooey. Not enough marshmallows? Doubt it. Too much mixing? A more likely culprit. I happen to think that it can be traced back to an inadequate supply of ... Read more »
Unbelievable.
March 12th, 2008 | Social | Comment »This is hilarious for a dozen reasons, not the least of which is that this guy (Paolo Calabresi) is obviously not Nicholas Cage. Nonetheless, he was able to pull the scam off and convince Real Madrid that he was the Cagemeister, receiving the royal treatment as his prize. [youtube u1XMod3xK2I]Related posts: 1000 ... Read more »
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