March 2012
Derek & Simon: The Pity Card | Short of the Week →
February 2012
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"Stealing" Free Education? Homeless Mother Gets... →
Gen. McCaffrey privately briefs NBC execs on war... →
The stuff in the article is interesting, but you could skim and skip down to the really interesting part: Greenwald’s reply to NBC’s reply to his article.
Sexual harassment as ethical imperative: how... →
Alabama Denies DNA Test To Potentially Innocent... →
A Secret for Patients Undergoing Hernia Repair -... →
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) Blocks Draconian Drug War... →
WatchIndecision 2012: How Is It That Mitt Romney Hasn’t Crushed This Guy Already? (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) (by Comedy Central)
NPR Tries to Get its Pressthink Right →
The Grey
We saw The Grey last night, and as I’d heard, it was markedly better than the usual shit that gets dumped into the January-March window. Not amazing, but an ambitious and decent movie, with some real effort put into it by everyone involved and absolutely nothing wrong with it. A solid B+.
AO Scott in the NYT gave the movie a 90 review and said “It’s a fine, tough little movie,...
I work for Uncle Sam, and I’m proud of it - The... →
A Show with Ze Frank by Ze Frank — Kickstarter →
Ze Frank is trying to use Kickstarter to bring back The Show with Ze Frank! Yaaaaaaaaaaay!
Here’s some classic episodes:
hindsight
fingers in food
work this
Amnesty International Urges Stricter Limits on... →
The PA Report - The Beast is Unleashed: Capcom’s... →
I love that they are trying to explain why this moment is so incredible. It’s so hard to explain incredible feats of video gaming to people who don’t know the games.
But the article falls short in its explanation, because while all the things said are true, Daigo still had to parry each individual kick of the super with 1/60th of a second precision. Any one of them mis-timed, and he...
Puppycide →
A New Mexico woman called the state police to report that she had been the victim of an Internet scam. The police told her they couldn’t come right away. She asked them to call before showing up at her house. They didn’t. Instead, an officer arrived while she wasn’t home, ignored the woman’s “Beware of Dog” sign, hopped the woman’s fence … and then killed her dog.
Abject bigotry at the New York Post →
Teller Reveals His Secrets →
Penny Arcade - Montezuma’s Revenge →
California Most Hated State, According To Recent... →
California sucks, ya’ll, don’t move here.
Large Naked Woman Stomps On Car In Noe Valley... →
Formula One | Mercedes hiding new double diffuser... →
Plug It In | Blog | Tesla Motors →
Tesla responds to the “bricking” article. Basically, yeah it’ll brick, but you gotta be truly neglecting it for that to happen, and you can “brick” a gas car by being similarly neglectful.
Killzone 3. Multiplayer. F2P. Tuesday. →
Interesting! Fascinating experiment, I can’t wait to see how this turns out. And, with a free download, yeah, I’d definitely check out Killzone 3 multiplayer, which I never would have done before.
“Here’s the seven. OK, there’s Utah. Idaho. A Dakota. South Carolina....”
– James Carville, on the 7 states that Santorum can win in the general election.
Democrats: Is Rick Santorum for real? - Glenn Thrush and Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com
MPAA Bullies The 'Bully' Documentary Into An... →
Eleventh Circuit Finds Fifth Amendment Right... →
Wonderfully sane ruling. Enjoy the brief time between now and the Supreme Court overturning this, where sanity will momentarily prevail in this area of the law.
Alaska Bill Would Criminalize TSA Screening... →
Achewood § October 2, 2003 →
The Shins, 'Simple Song' Video →
After 5 years, The Shins are back. Sounds like The Shins to me.
Virginia House Revises Controversial Abortion Bill... →
Whoops.
Scott Ritter’s Other War - NYTimes.com →
The WH Loves Aggressive Journalism — Abroad →
All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay →
Virginia ultrasound law: women who want an... →
Tucker Carlson: 'Iran Deserves To Be Annihilated' →
Diluting Miranda →
What I find the most creepy about Miranda dilution, and I never see anyone mention it, is that who the hell understands the Miranda warning? Everyone gets read the Miranda warning, and yet almost no one seems to understand that it means they don’t have to say anything; that they in fact SHOULD NOT say anything. Not a word. Is Mirandizing criminals really the bottleneck in police work? I have...
xkcd: Significant →
Punanny State - Virginia's Transvaginal Ultrasound... →
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before... →
Kevin Fox - Google - I was writing a blog post... →
Google’s recent futzing and fussiness around the design of basic, long-established elements lately has had me actually thinking very deeply about whether to stop using Chrome and other Google properties. Their privacy bullshit doesn’t help either.