Apparently, the Associated Press, in a noble effort to appear as much as an obsolete dinosaur as possible, has rules barring bloggers from citing more than four words out of an AP article without paying fees. See the deets at Boing Boing.
This got me thinking: What would AP headlines look like were everything past the [...]
Filed under: business, humor, news on June 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While reading about the unsurprisingly bad consumer confidence numbers, I came across this article focusing on the Florida consumer confidence numbers.
In the midst of the numbers, and the suggestion that the stimulus checks (as I expected) had no effect on consumer confidence, I found a glimmer of good news:
Although most economists foresee price declines extending [...]
Filed under: business, news on May 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
The Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts, 70-year old Harvey Ruvin, seems to have a, er, gift. Witness, as he raps about the dangers of global warming, war, and so forth:
Yes, that video was done by a 70-year old politician. He’s also up for re-election, and making the environment central to his campaign.
Apparently, his campaign is both [...]
Filed under: humor, news, politics on May 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
Some of you might have seen this video last week, wherein a walking stereotype of a woman verbally assaults a little old lady on an Atlanta subway by, among other things, reciting lyrics to “Crank That Solja Boy”. Really.
Well, now it appears the woman referred to across the internets as “Solja Girl” (for her knack [...]
Filed under: humor, news on May 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
An Italian woman who had been hitch-hiking to promote world peace was found murdered. From the BBC News article:
She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.
I guess that didn’t work out so well. Call me jaded, call me cynical, but God, that was a [...]
Filed under: news on April 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
So, I’m minding my own business, reading Slate, and see one of those “family killed by ninjas, need money for karate lessons” pictures off to the right of the page. Then, I see it is an advertisement for life insurance. Oh, and the article in question was about John McCain visiting Mo Udall on his [...]
Filed under: advertising, humor, news on April 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We all know by now the internet’s not a truck, it’s a series of tubes. And it appears that Flickr has got its tubes chock full of material right now. Flickr has a knack for humorous error messages, and for its largest site outage in a long time, they’ve decided to give users something to [...]
Filed under: humor, news, technology on July 19th, 2006 | No Comments »
MySpace, you've hit critical mass. A giant media conglomerate owns you, every major-label band has a page, and you're sponsoring events and concerts all over the nation. It's time to realize that you're not a grass-roots little social networking website anymore. It's time for some changes:
Filed under: news on January 26th, 2006 | No Comments »
I came away from reading Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt's recent book, Freakonomics, with a Republican-esque disdain for the (illegal) drug industry. The crack boom helped knock blacks a few decades backward in catching up to white America's socioeconomic status, fuel a crime wave that lasted until the early 1990s, and basically fuck us up [...]
Filed under: news on November 29th, 2005 | No Comments »
I've always been introverted, and above average in the smarts department, but until now I only had years of As and high standardized test scores to back me up in my claim of intellectual superiority. I knew someday, some scientists would cook up something else for me to fuel my claims, and that day has [...]
Filed under: news on November 29th, 2005 | No Comments »