November 2008
60 posts
Brokencyde - Freaxxx
I understand that this atrocity of a music video has been reblogged to death recently, but no one’s pointed out yet that these filmmakers are Apple Store employees. Yes, exactly.
Mumbai is a “soft target,” the terrorism analysts say. Anybody can walk into the...
– Suketu Mehta, What They Hate About Mumbai, The New York Times. (via tlvx)
There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually...
– Chuck Klosterman
The Superficial Contest: $500 towards a Botox... →
[][][][] / “Sigur ros - Gong” - Eric Lerner
McDonald's Courts Moms As Fast-Food Emissaries →
Vito Schnabel showed his faith in the artist by sampling the work but warned...
– Excerpted from NY Magazine’s reportage on the paintings supposedly created with confectioner’s sugar at Terrence Koh’s new exhibition
A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence →
Dan Mirvish, along with Eitan Gorlin, created an elaborate Internet hoax complete with a fake policy institute and a phony adviser to Senator John McCain.
This is the guy who said that Sarah Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent.
"Touching Strangers" is a series of photos by... →
Love it.
[via kottke]
Beautiful?
You both look autumnal.
– Barack Obama to George W. and Laura Bush at their first White House meeting
Girl Talk Is A PC →
Oh no.
Her buzz is incredible. She has car-wreck appeal. You’re compelled to...
– Talent agent Linda Mann on Sarah Palin’s potential
Sprint posts Q3 net loss of $326 million →
Hilariously, last quarter it lost $344 million.
For more on “Wireless Companies Hemmorhaging Money”, see Motorola, who lost $397 million in Q3 and plans to cut expenditures by $800 million in 2009.
Ex-MPAA and IFPI Anti-Piracy Enforcer Shot Dead →
Kasim Cha Tong, a former director of the MPA and anti-piracy campaigner for the IFPI, died by a single shot from a sawn-off shotgun. The killer escaped… police are investigating the possibility that this was an assassination. A former policeman, Tong could’ve made enemies in many areas of his work, but commercial piracy is big business in his part of the world and attracts people prepared to...
UPDATE: Here we go!
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Fox News just called Ohio WHILE Karl Rove was on stage. He was speechless. For my money, one of the most satisfying moments of this campaign.
I can’t find video of this anywhere. Can a guy get a YouTube link?
I made it up because I wanted you to like me.