From Last Days of Gourmet a photo essay looking at the closure of Gourmet magazine

Everything about this is wonderful, but it really heats up about four minutes in

He’s our Oprah

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Brad Thor, a “writer” of political thrillers, on the sales uptick when his “books” are mentioned on Glenn Beck’s radio show. Thor and his cohort specialize in a right wing escapist genre that almost certainly makes Dan Brown look like Dostoyevsky, a genre I’ll unoriginally dub “dick lit”.

I’m certain that this pulp is gobbled up by the same crowds, sequestered away in the forgotten, backwards hellholes of “real America”, who eagerly await the release of Sarah Palin’s screed. Which shouldn’t be at all surprising since Thor and Palin both exploit the same qualities in their supporters – ignorance of the world around them, unwillingness to change that ignorance and an eagerness to blame the world’s problems on some vague “other”. All delivered at a comprehension level your average fifth grader would find boring.

Google’s Closure Tools is a suite for doing intensive javascript development

Includes a javascript library, compiler and templates.

Running the numbers on yesterday’s clear and unambiguous referendum on the first 9 months of the Obama presidency.

Squirrelapult [via jwz]

Mockingbird looks quite slick

Web-based tool for wireframing

Wired: How I Unmasked @FakeAPStylebook

via the inimitable echuckles

No matter how many times reporters and pundits made the claim, a detailed analysis of Nielsen ratings numbers clearly indicates that in the two weeks after the White House in mid-October sparked a media controversy by claiming Rupert Murdoch’s channel was not a legitimate news organization, Fox News’ ratings did not soar or go “through the roof.” In fact, not only did Fox News’ overall ratings not soar, they experienced no significant increase at all. Instead, in the two weeks following the initial verbal jousts with the White House, Fox News’ total day ratings virtually flatlined.

—Media Matters for America says that FOX News’ recent “ratings boon” is a myth.

Neven designed this awesome shirt.

Tell him how awesome it is and that you’d buy one if he figures out how to get ‘em printed up.