2008

May

Cory Bergman's coming to work with us at...

The last six editors of the LA Times talk to...

Know your sign language [via Dean Allen]

Yahoo stock plunges?

MS Paint turns porn into art (quite probably not safe for...

Dating the women of indie rock

Sorry I Missed Your Party has great promise. If they could...

I will probably never tire of photos of stupid Americans who...

“Have you ever met a 75-year-old black man in this country...”
— Chris Rock on Reverend Wright

“Merlin would be the funny one, Scott would be the smart one...”
— Adam...

Ars has a really great breakdown of the White...

“The premise, as I understand it, is that those who reject...”
— Steve Benen on Ben...

“Michael Moore would be dead within a week if he came to...”
— Brazilian filmmaker José...

Awesome. A phone with rabbit ears.

America, can you really vote for a liberal elite who doesn’t know how to work a coffee...

“And we have certainly paid a price for not being more...”
— White House press secretary...

Grass below you, sky above

“Craplist was started in San Fierro in 1995 by some basement...”
— One of many, many parodies in...

Apr

Nifty New York Times slideshow on the politics of Asheville,...

Facebook in real life [via Airbag]

Best I can figure, this is a real campaign not just a cheeky...

“My sister can’t say she is a Lesbian. Our geographical...”
— Dimitris Lambrou, who is suing...

Oh, goodie, color profile support works in...

Hate talking on the phone? Get a data only...

TwitterLocal generates an RSS or XML feed...

Obama hoops it up with North Carolina...

Can you really vote for a man who tucks his shirt in while...

Never before has the Washington monument seemed so…...

The 30th anniversary BMW M1. Probably just as well that...

The films of Stanley Kubrick

Airbag and The Nation redesign

“There comes a moment in the life of every filthy hack when...”
— Fake Steve Jobs, the...

If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo

TweetDumpr exports all your tweets into a CSV...

“when word leaked recently that Microsoft was adding to the...”
— I hear they used a...

Are those American flag lapel pin earrings?

“The correct address is...”
— Can’t wait for the...

The vanishing personal site

“When my wife was cleaning the blood off, she said, ‘I...”
— Allan Kieta, a legally blind...

Qwest is finally getting off their ass and...

Is Mike Arrington a Dick?

The eleven states of America

@TrackThis uses Twitter to track your...

If you bought anything from MSN Music, better...

Change we can BROlieve in

“There are those who believe veal stock is unnecessary. Those...”
— Carol Blymire makes the French...

Florida Senate amendment takes on "Truck...

I bet Harrison didn’t wear a flag lapel pin, either!...

CNN Shirt puts CNN headlines on a t-shirt

Six Apart buys Apperceptive, launches a...

On the one hand, there’s Taco Bell. On the other hand, there’s bacon as perfume.

New Belgium Brewing is going canned this...

I’m going to start using this as a captcha - if you don’t smile, clearly you...

No mention of mothra

Where is McCain's flag pin?

Adjustable Mustard was a split-7″ that Bacon Ray put out with Nel Aspinal in 1996. (More from...

This just might be the best thing on the internet ever

The free Slimsticks promotion should really get this trend...

French Laundry at Home

It looks just like spraypaint

This should be the new Rickroll

My buddy Ross has this model plane with a first-person perspective video camera that he flies over...

Brad Bird on Ollie Johnston

I’m down with any cop who can shake it to Billy Jean

“Fragments of the lives of others just drift in, make you...”
— Dean Allen’s still one...

Bacon Flowchart (best viewed large) [via Jay Heinz, a legend...

Well, if this just doesn’t top the list of asinine...

New Waxy.org looks sharp

Preliminary Bumbershoot lineup announced

Muxtape recommendations

“Any definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would...”
— Brad Smith, Microsoft’s...

8-bit Rickroll’d

Pacemaker is a full DJ setup about the size of phone.

Monsanto's harvest of fear

Microsoft Windows 7 Exclusive!

The science of barbecue

What’d you call my mama?!

Holovaty's "Nude" remix makes me smile

BuzzFeed has a fantastic roundup of...

At least one of those words also describes me

It’s super freaky! [via ffffound]

“The movie’s okay. But Ghostface is spellbinding”
— Manohla Dargis (not really) on...

Pitchfork's guide to upcoming releases

“Eighth street latinas” from porn for the blind, a public service that transcribes...

I second Mena Trott’s suggestion that the RickDeesRoll replace that other one

Radiohead launches remix program through...

Bacon. Wrapped. Bacon.

Mar

“Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker …...”
— Microsoft and “brand...

“That was my supernatural moment”
— Mr. T, on bringing a boy out...

Work, buy, consume, die

I am not Jeff Vader, I am Darth Vader

Hot Lava’s “Apple Option Fire” might be the best song you hear about rebooting...

“The average human has one breast and one testicle”
— Des McHale on statistical...

If you own this, you have to make the lightsaber sound every...

“Oliver Stone’s sort-of anticipated film W., about George W....”
— Adam Sternbergh, over at...

LA Times apologies, retracts Tupac story

There it is, folks, right between Hannah Montana and Minnie...

Now I’m just sad that there was never an A-Team/Golden...

This should be sampled in every hip hop song for the next six months [via The Triumph of Bullshit]

Does not have a name [via Monoscope]

This trend of wheelchair-bound dogs isn’t really...

FriendFeedFeed - aggregate your social...

Did the LA Times get hoaxed in their story...

Better than that one of Bush made of little Jesuses [via...

“Surf Twitter for the latest Muxtape links from your friends...”
— Step 4 in Ryan Irelan’s...

Seattle startup weekend fails to jump...

Skip breakfast, get fat

Rick Astley on Rickrolling

Merlin upgraded his phone!

At 2:00 every day, a breast appears on the St. Mary’s...

KEXP starts simulcasting in NYC today

Pantone eyewear

Until “River Tam Beats Up Everyone!” hits the theaters, this will have to suffice.

“Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet...”
— And other smart-ass retorts to...

And eleven(ish) other ways to kill a Peep

It took some work, but my new business cards finally arrived...

Imagine what the Japanese lap pillow will do for the upskirt...

“Recorded music is nothing but marketing material to drive...”
— No one ever accused Michael...

A very special March madness fail

It’s true. Everyone who works for Microsoft Research travels by TOTES RAD SK8BOARD and has a...

“If you’re saying that there needed to be scenes of the...”
— David Simon is clearly a huge...

Season 4 can’t get here soon enough

The kind of footage normally used in ads for pajamas and cough syrup

University of Minnesota prof/science blogger...

TasteSpotting is porn for foodies

Is it any wonder that this father and son duo are being...

There Will Be Vader (via Kottke)

Hot dog, the new NYMag homepage is sharp

Is there some kind of causation v. correlation argument to...

“I’m sure that the moment man discovered fire, there...”
— Andy Baio on knee-jerk...

Birthday skinny dip (photo by Jay Heinz)

1979

The day started inauspiciously - woke up around 8, some quick yoga, got dressed for a breakfast of...

Tiro de Gracia is my new favorite Chilean hip...

Away

Oh, hi. I’m currently way, way down south in Ushuaia, Argentina, working on a documentary...