Category: Media

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  • Six Degrees of Cool

    jonah – was kind enough to answer my math question. Following the link to his site, I found one of his links to a very funny story of useful foreign phrases to use while traveling through Europe. This story was featured on Über. How have I missed this site all this time? I had heard…

  • The Future and Its Enemies

    Thanks to Shannon for pointing me to this review of the book, The Future and Its Enemies, The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel. Many, many subtle ideas to twist my little brain around for a while.

  • Follow the Money

    Think your congressional reps have been bought? With Opensecrets.org, it’s now super simple to find out who’s doing the buying.

  • That’s Going to Leave a Stain

    Note to Self: Stop drinking stuff concurrent to enjoying the Register’s irreverent brand of journalism Nokia is creaming Microsoft in the phone business, Bill Gates said yesterday. Gates admitted the company is "way, way, way behind Nokia", according to a Financial Times report. Three "ways" is significant – because Bill’s "way"-scale is logarithmic (not a…

  • This Could Be Big

    See, this is why I love MetaFilter. Could somebody please remind me to check out this site on March 8, 2003? I’m not sure, but it could change all our lives. Oh, and could you remind me to do a load of whites tonight too? Thanks.

  • They’re Making This Up

    Yo homeslice. I’m down with the jive that the kids and the kittens like to rap at each other, so I’m pretty sure that whoever layed a slang groove down for the author of The Hipster Handbook was just having a laugh at the poor square’s expense. I’ve never heard any of these terms. I’m…

  • Walk on the Beach

    A grey and overcast Sunday, could there be anything better than a walk along the beach? No sun, no people, nothing to spoil my mood. It was pretty close to perfect. I even took my camera.

  • High Court Hang-ups

    I don’t know if This Transcript is true or not, but I dearly hope that it is. Judge: I think Mr Chrysler is running rings round you already. I would try a new line of attack if I were you. Counsel: Thank you, m’lud. Chrysler: And thank you from ME, m’lud. It’s nice to be…

  • What the Fu…

    *blink* … *blink* *blink* What the hell was that?