November 2008
23 posts
“By the end of the campaign, I was seeing the Drudge siren in my sleep. As people...”
– Howard Wolfson - Senior Hillary ‘08 Advisor in the NYTIMES Magazine Screens issue
(via Ben Smith)
Q-Tip / Death of AutoTune - Breathe and Stop
Off...
WatchAndy Samberg is a deadringer for Rahm. Fantastic!
WatchT-Pain’s video for Karaoke is downright fantastic.
It features TP going into battle rap mode against a Japanese salaryman in a Florida retirement community karaoke bar, backed up by DJ Kahled yelling at the elderly and cameos by Kanye in a bathroom stall and Akon grooving out on bongos.
In other words, brilliance.
“Every dollar spent paying an IT guy is a dollar not spent doing whatever it is...”
– Want to fix the economy? Fire your sysadmin
The New Yorker is now a bigger generator of... →
Gladwell & Friedman are the new class of business gurus
Instapaper 1.3 submitted to App Store →
PSA: Use Instapaper for the web and your iPhone/iTouch. Read different.
marco:
This was months in the making. See the full changelog.
Thank you, Marco.
“How did you know you were old, Master?”
“Because I started discovering popular...”
– Too Much Nick
“The final truth is this: He makes the best songs. They sound the way I want...”
– Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy
International Laugh At Lieberman Day - Tuesday,... →
Think Joe Lieberman is a joke? We do too. That’s why we’ve created a new holiday: Laugh at Lieberman Day.
It’s today, Tuesday, November 18th, and we want you to celebrate with us! Here’s what you need to know:
How to celebrate:
Step 1: Find some way to record yourself It can be a video camera, a camera phone, your laptop, or just a microphone. Just find someway to at least capture...
The Tragedy of the Laptop Addict →
Less is written about the laptop addict, an equally tragic modern figure, the kind of person who, say, during a friendly dinner conversation about voters in Pennsylvania pops up to fetch the MacBook and check the difference between the Mennonites and the Amish.
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and...”
– Joe Biden, January 31, 2007
As a good friend of mine pointed out, this wouldn’t be possible without a Joe Biden gaffe.
It’s a storybook.