10 reasons why newspapers won’t reinvent news

Quite well written, pulls no punches look at the problem with newspapers, in particular newspaper culture. Sad but sobering.

SNL launching a video sharing site just in time for people to go back to not caring about SNL

I’m guessing it will use technology from Hulu with some exclusive content unavailable anywhere else. Likely to succeed only if NBC can sue the crap out of every other video sharing site that hosts…

I just hope she wins. She’s my future mother-in-law. She better win.

—Wasilla heartthrob Levi Johnston is rooting for McCain-Palin, but not enough to actually register to vote for them.

[via livejamie]

I can not tell you how much I wanted to be this kid about 20 years ago [yes, thisisacoolattitude]

Eno’s music composition/art app is beautiful. [via buzz]

Oh cool

livejamie:

Bullshit reblogged something of mine giving me credit only on their homepage, not within the reblog itself.

Love it when that happens. It’s okay if it happens every once in a while, but he does it all the time.

For the record, I met the Triumph of Bullshit guy (once…) and he is a total fucking asshole. I bought him a beer and he didn’t even tell every person in the bar who bought him that beer. Then I unfriended him on Facebook, which really showed him.

The New York Times is shutting down the IHT website

Once one of the most innovative news sites going, it’s languished for years. The Times is hoping to roll up more international users into its main site and brand.

SEPT. 19, 2044: Erasto Norman, the first black pope and an avid skiing enthusiast, is killed in an avalanche.

—Chuck Klosterman’s brief history of the 21st century is actually pretty good.

Mail goggles aims to stop you from sending an email you might later regret

Only active at night and on the weekends, this gmail labs experiment forces you to solve a quick math problem before dashing off that email you might later regret. I love it!