It’s not just that the Ugg boots you overpaid for three years ago continue to look hideous. The reason any man of character instantly finds you unattractive when he sees you wearing those stupid, stupid things is that you’re saying to the world “I bought into a fashion promulgated by the most shallow our generation had to offer.”
Trends are fine, they come and go, we laugh at the pictures ten years later. Being mindful of their genesis is a skill worth honing, though.
President Obama continues a long tradition of planting a tree at the White House. This tree is replacing one planted by George W. Bush which, reportedly, “didn’t take”.
Or maybe they just shouldn’t have let Cheney spit there.
Neven memorialized balloon boy in that quintessentially 21st century medium, a t-shirt
Driving a car with an iPhone
as a result of this project, Burbank and Seattle airports will begin offering airport-wide free Wi-Fi indefinitely
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Google’s bringing free Wi-Fi to 47 airports this holiday season and keeping it in my home airport! Free, presumably ad-supported Wi-Fi, in airports has seemed like a no-brainer to me for a long time.
In fact, I suggested this very idea at my day job several years ago, as a counter to CNN’s ubiquity on airport televisions. So it goes.
Feltron looks at 13 years of cnn.com
The royal Lindstifa asked for a photo and, well, this was the best I could do. Lacking a kitten to immolate, I thought “what would cause the brilliant and erudite amongst whom I traffic to shriek in terror” and, naturally, I concluded, a book! But not just any book, this being Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking, a bible if ever there was one for foodish types. Such as Her Highness and myself.
It’s a disturbing trend.
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Sarah Palin, in one of her nuttier moments (it’s a sliding scale when Palin’s involved) at a recent Wisconsin Right to Life banquet, discussing the vast left-wing conspiracy that’s moved “In God We Trust” from the front to the edge of the dollar coin. The coin to which Palin refers was commissioned in 2005 and released in 2007, during a simpler time when the world was blissfully unaware of the fact that the governor of the nation’s largest state was, and continues to be, a total moron.
Other highlights of Palin’s jeremiad included a somewhat more refined yet still completely false reiteration of her death panel claim, the standard “liberal media” bashing and plenty of extemporaneous usage of the word “bogus”.
Apparently, she did actually finish the full speech.
Murdoch wants to remove his newspapers from Google?
A few years ago, right around the time News Corp acquired the WSJ, I lost a bet that Murdoch’s media empire would about face on pay-walls: that they would beat other big name sites like the New York Times to opening all of their content up and make a killing on highly contextual ads.
Boy, was I ever wrong. Well, at least wrong about what would actually happen, I’m still convinced it’s a pretty good idea. Never could I have imagined, though, that News Corp would take the step of removing all of their content from Google, that’s like saying that you can’t buy the Wall Street Journal from a street vendor, you can only get a copy from the headquarters on the Avenue of the Americas. Bizarre. Almost as weird as Rupert not really understanding how the WSJ’s pay-wall actually works.
One thing I do agree with Murdoch on is the skewed idea that search engines and aggregators are covered by “fair use”, a claim I don’t think Google has actually ever made, but legions of pro-bloggers certainly try to get away with.