December 2007
58 posts
Glamour Mug Shots →
My friend David has been turning celebrity mug shots into cheesy Glamour Shots photos. Hendrix is definitely my favorite.
Texas responsible for 60% of 2007's executions →
— livejamie
“Before I started, I said I’d rather be a million people’s favorite...”
– Ricky Gervais
Amount of unpaid credit card bills is rising →
The Onion Classic: Eight-Pound Man Removed From... →
— didyouevernotice
Dude, FakeSteve is on FIRE today!!!! →
FakeJeffMarks has been following this Apple lame out story. Today’s post is the topper. You cannot beat him naming his lawyer Tony Clifton. ”But you guys put Martin Luther King Jr. in your ads. And John Lennon. You had Gandhi in your ads. Gandhi, dude. Think about that. Think about what Gandhi did in his life, what he stood for, the price he paid for freedom of expression. You drag...
The Queen's got a youtube channel. →
Oh yes she does. And her vids aren’t embeddable. Typical royalty. The profile video features the young, vivacious queen in 1957 - dripping with sexiness as she warns of the impending decay of ageless morals, brought on by the television. It almost seems like she’s talking about YouTube… and it definitely seems like she’s talking out of her ass. I wonder if she claimed...
Think Progress » Labor board stifles unions’ use... →
Mattel - Toys - Christmas - China - New York Times →
“It is now difficult to keep track of the vast array of publicly endorsed and...”
– Mike Huckabee, in “Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence,” a book published in 1998. The Huck stops here | Democracy in America | Economist.com
“When fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a...”
– Ron Paul bashing Mike Huckabee by quoting Sinclair Lewis
Who Do You Trust? Blogs vs. The New York Times →
In 2002, blogging evangelist Dave Winer made a long bet with New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz: “In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.” Today, Associated Press editors and news directors chose the top 10 news stories of the year, which makes it possible to...
E.P.A. Says 17 States Can’t Set Emission Rules -... →
VOTE GODDAMNIT!!! →
NewTeevee is running a viral Billy Joel parody contest - please vote for ours!
WatchWe Didn’t Kill the Market We decided to wrap up the year LITERALLY by parodying “We Didn’t Start the Fire” with ticker symbols. This was a great team effort, envisioned by Amanda, helmed by Scott, and made possible by the effort of the entire crew (big props to Sean for making it spin in post). Oh, yeah… and DIGG IT if you don’t mind. We need some love out...
Talking Points Memo | Whammo! →
'Gun-Free Zones' Cause Deaths →
There is simply nothing that warms my heart for the holiday season like a gun-crazy using a shooting spree as jusification for more guns.
Roman Bodnar just told me a great joke
Here goes: Stalin appears to Putin in a dream. Putin asks him, “How do I maintain power for the rest of my life?” “You need to do two things,” Stalin replies, “First, kill all the democrats in the country. Then paint the entire inside of the Kremlin blue.” “Why paint the Kremlin blue?” askes Putin. Stalin just smiles and says, “I knew...
Liberals lose bigtime in budget battle - Martin... →
scott: twitter? seems weird to me
adam: I don't use it. i'm a tumblr
scott: i saw you in there
adam: i signed up for a name way back when it started, but never used it
scott: you got a photo and NO content
scott: funny
adam: i think the idea is that from lots of tiny insignificant sentences, meaning can appear
scott: that sounds about right
AlterNet: Pundits Say Clinton or Obama, But... →
Ron Paul's Raving Republicans →
Commenting
I spent the weekend surfing the political blogosphere, and the first thing I notices was how many comments I was seeing. Seemed like a lot more than I’m used to seeing on tech blogs. So I did a little unscientific experiment. I used technorati blog search, del.icio.us tag search and google to help me select six top tech blogs and six top political blogs. Not THE top blogs in their...
Media Matters - Media Matters; by Jamison Foser →
Talking Points Memo | The 'Huckabee Panic' →
Waiting for Lefty
Just saw this 1935 Clifford Odetts play performed at Columbia. My friend Jim Cramer was in the production, which was great by the way - solid performances all around. This play is a classic from the WPA/Labor movement in theater, and has been at times been labeled communist propaganda. I’ve always been a sucker for Lefty, but what I didn’t know until tonight was that Odetts (a member...
Why Lane Hartwell Popped the 'Here Comes Another... →
Why Lane Hartwell Popped the 'Here Comes Another... →
Lane’s story raises some valid concerns regarding Tumblr. I try to respect Creative Commons when posting images to my tumblelog from Flickr, but what about images from ffffound and other works where the artists rights aren’t clearly identified? Should Tumblrs post content without the artist’s explicit permission? — joelaz
“A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as...”
– Mike Huckabee and 129 other evangelical leaders in the Baptist convention’s statement of faith, 1998
Clinton Sorry For Aide's Obama Drug Remark,... →
Having your aide say it, then apologizing for it. That’s politicking at it’s best.
“The arts are always in trouble. It is their nature to be in trouble. Artists...”
– Archibald MacLeish
How the Navy's Ad Agency sees the Youtube...
Shockingly, I’d say I actually agree with 4 of the points below, from Alternet Many of their experiences have been secondhand. A sizable part of their life has been spent in a virtual world rather than in the real world. The television/computer screen has always acted as a ‘screen’ that has kept them away from many direct real world interactions. Their ‘B.S.’...
Law Journal Names Gonzales ‘Lawyer of the Year’ →
You mean he’s a lawyer?
100 million video views
Way to go NextNew! - ae Our portfolio company, Next New Networks creates exciting, fresh video content. It’s free, short form, low cost, targets communities and distributed everywhere. In other words, it’s made for the internet. Their shows, ranging from informative content at Veracifier to fashion at Threadbanger to pop culture at Epic Fu, have been growing fast. (And there’s a...
Pornotube finally gets sued →
I remember finding pornotube back in the early days of youtube. I took one look at youtube, and said, “someone should make a porn version of this”… then I found pornotube. If I had taken one look at youtube and said, “this could be bought for 1.3 Billion dollars” my bank account would be a lot richer… but not my life.
“Do you want to jerk off, or do you want to fuck?” -Peter Stampfel on playing in a band vs. playing solo