Publish the story and shop it to every media outlet under the sun because you realize that it’s actual news, unlike Lady Gaga’s machine gun jumblies.

—Talking Points memo enumerates the ways in which Rolling Stone won the news cycle but lost the story with its handling of the McChrystal profile that everyone is talking about. Turns out the RS didn’t even bother to have a copy online despite shopping it all over creation. (Read it here now.)

Kottke’s quiet iPhone wallpaper

Ok, that’s pretty funny

Did you upgrade to iOS 4 today, ooh and aah at the new wallpaper feature and then decide it was actually pretty annoying?

A while ago, I made a wallpaper for the iOS 4 betas since I was decidedly unimpressed with the ones that shipped by default. Some of you liked it, a few more even asked if I’d make one for the new, high-res iPhone 4. Honestly, these made me chuckle since there’s really not much to it, but here you go.

Same black background, same Fireball gray, now just bigger and high resier. Save big_fanboy.jpg to wherever it is your iPhone looks for photos or you can just tap that link directly on your phone and tap-hold the image to save. Enjoy.

Oooooh! Marco made one that’s all textury. Gosh, that looks swell.

Urbanape made some nice ones as well.

The design work on these are, of course, fantastic but the copywriting is equally wonderful.

Warren Buffett is betting a million bucks that the S&P 500 will outperform a portfolio of hedge funds over 10 years

Protege Partners is taking the bet, money goes to charity.

My afternoon with lonelysandwich. from Jeremy Fuksa:Creative Generalist on Vimeo.

God, I love this man

The rare Full Mrgan

Journalism as a Conversation: Blogs, Commenting and the Art of Interaction

A few thoughts in response to the ongoing debate between Joe Wilcox and John Gruber about blog commenting (see samples of their respective posts here and here.)

Jesus, Doreen is smart

A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.

—Is this the best subhed you’ve read all day?

The truth is, Arrington been trying to sell TechCrunch for years — at least since 2007 when he hired Heather Harde, an M&A guru, from Fox Interactive, and named her CEO of TechCrunch. Back in those days Mike was full of talk about that big “liquidity event” that was right around the corner. Supposedly all the big brands were coming to him and begging him to sell. Now it’s three years later and he still can’t unload the thing.

—Speaking of TechCrunch’s impending sale, here’s Fake Steve.