Feeling even better about my recent MacBook purchase now.
Entries from October 2008
October 29, 2008
Bat-Manga!
Over at BoingBoing Cory Doctorow is taking a look at a new book about Bat-Manga – the explosion of Batman comic books created for the Japanese market during the 1960s, when the classic Adam West TV series was being marketed there.
The best part of the story? Apparently the Japanese man tasked with selling Batman to [...]
October 28, 2008
Christian Science Monitor to drop print edition
BOSTON (AP) — The Christian Science Monitor said Tuesday it will become the first national newspaper to drop its daily print edition and focus on publishing online, succumbing to the financial pressure squeezing its industry harder than ever.
Come April, the Boston-based general-interest paper — founded in 1908 and the winner of seven Pulitzer Prizes — [...]
October 24, 2008
The return of Dualism?
New Scientist has an interesting piece about the resurrection of Cartesian Dualism as a weapon in the fight over creationism.
From the story:
“Schwartz and Beauregard are part of a growing “non-material neuroscience” movement. They are attempting to resurrect Cartesian dualism – the idea that brain and mind are two fundamentally different kinds of things, material and [...]
October 24, 2008
Andy, Opie, Ritchie and Fonz for Obama
See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die
So it IS possible to be amused, to have your heart warmed and to throw up a little in your mouth all at once…
October 23, 2008
Great review of the first Android phone
BoingBoing Gadgets has the best review I’ve read yet of T-Mobile’s G1 Android phone.
For those coming late: Android is Google’s new, open source operating system for mobile phones. It is being offered first on the G1 model smartphone and has been hyped in some corners of the Net as a possible “iPhone Killer.”
Reviewer Joel Johnson [...]
October 21, 2008
Talking with McCain-Palin folks
Some video that Michael McQueen and I did at the Elon rally last week. The folks in the video are much more representative of the crowd than the guy who ended up kicking me.
And you even get a bit of the Hank Williams Jr. song “McCain-Palin Tradition” there at the end.
October 20, 2008
Hey, he got free gum
In light of last week, a couple of people have sent me this now:
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — As Republican congressional candidate Keith Fimian warmed up the crowd at an afternoon rally with Sen. John McCain, CNN’s Ed Henry was co-anchoring his network’s weekend political coverage live from the press risers. Fimian was speaking about his personal [...]
October 17, 2008
How I Became Joe Sixpack
Was at the Sarah Palin rally at Elon University today.
It was an interesting day and I’m glad to have had the experience. But now here I sit, sunburned and sore with a throbbing headache and an aching leg.
Why? Because a McCain-Palin supporter tried to kick my ass.
I know what you’re thinking.
But no, I [...]
October 10, 2008
Designer Condoms?
Proper Attire condoms are, apparently, a new brand of condom catering to people who don’t feel traditional condoms are “stylish” enough.
The brand’s slogan: “Proper Attire: Required for Entry”
From their website:
Old stereotypes about who should buy condoms are so last season! PROPER ATTIRE® condoms are the “must-have” accessory and were designed with sexually active, stylish women [...]
October 8, 2008
Berkley Breathed ending “Opus” comic strip
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Berkley Breathed is ending his popular Sunday comic Opus, which often swings from weird and whimsical to bitingly satirical.
He says he’s “destroying the village in order to save it.”
Breathed tells the L.A. Times: “30 years of cartooning to end. I’m destroying the village to save it. Opus would inevitably become a [...]
October 8, 2008
Liz Phair does “Exile in Guyville” live
NPR has posted one of the concerts in which Liz Phair performs her breakthrough album Exile in Guyville in its entirety.
You can listen here.
Contains strong language, of course — cause, you know, it’s Liz Phair.
October 8, 2008
Entertainment Weekly (sorta) likes Oliver Stone’s “W.”
Entertainment Weekly calls Oliver Stone’s biopic of the sitting president “unusual and inescapably interesting”.
But reviewer Todd McCarthy also says the film “is unable to achieve more than a sort of engaging pop-history pageant and amateur, if not inapt, psychological evaluation, due to the unavoidable lack of perspective and a final act [...]
October 7, 2008
Where they torture the denim
Having recently lost some weight, I’m down to one pair of jeans that aren’t so big I have to hold them up with my belt pulled to its last hole and the denim scrunched up around my waist like I just arrived at Ellis Island.
So, I went shopping for a new pair of jeans this [...]
October 7, 2008
Bizarre “I’m a PC” commercials made with a Mac
I know I’ve posted about the new “I’m a PC” ads from Microsoft before — but now that I’ve seen this one with a solo Pharrell Williams I’m just…puzzled.
Nowhere in this ad does Pharrell or anyone else make any arguments for a PC being better than a Mac — not for [...]
October 7, 2008
My hero, Jerry Seinfeld
How did I never see this clip of Jerry Seinfeld saying what I’ve always wanted to say to Larry King?
King seems never to know anything about his guests or what they do — even the big ones. He hides behind this “Well, I’m just asking questions the viewers may not know” [...]
October 3, 2008
Tina Fey mistaken for Sarah Palin
Reader Brad K. sends an item about the AFP Photo service running a picture of Tina Fey as an actual picture of Sarah Palin.
Oops.
Yesterday, during a session with college journalists from around the state over at A&T, N&R editor John Robinson asked the students:
“How many of you heard Sarah Palin say that she could see [...]
October 3, 2008
Harps and Angels
Randy Newman, one of my favorite songwriters, has a new album out — Harps and Angels.
It’s good stuff.
You can listen to Newman play songs from the album live here.
And here’s him doing a solo rendition of “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country”…
October 3, 2008
Sarah Palin porn is a go
It was only a matter of time.
From the Frisky.com story:
The title of the pornographic homage to the governor of Alaska is “Nailin’ Paylin.” Contrary to earlier reports, the movie is in pre-production. One Jerry T. is set to direct, and porn star Lisa Ann will be taking on the role of Palin—er, “Paylin.” According to [...]
