April 2010
Sports Broadcasters
I’m convinced their core, cultural function is making the people watching them feel less lonely.
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six...”
– Oscar Wilde (via swisscheeseandbullets)
Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac... →
Google’s roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it’s got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users’ unique Mac (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along.
So Google is war-driving now. Good to know. (Via Brian, via the Register)
Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Home Searched And... →
Members of the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team took several computers, hard drives, digital cameras, cell phones and other gadgets, plus Chen’s American Express bill and copies of his checks.
Someone took way too much time coming up with that REACT acronym.
The New Pornographers, 'Together' →
NPR is streaming the new album.
“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when...”
– Werner Herzog (via youmightfindyourself)
JUST EAT YOUR FUCKING SHOE AGAIN HERZOG / i’ll still watch your movies.
(via humancomputer)
The way things are going, 40% of my blog is going to be Herzog quotes.
“The Arizona bill, which opponents and critics alike said was the broadest and...”
– Annnnnnd it was just signed. I’m pretty sure this is the textbook definition of fascism.
Also: as this bill essentially requires the police to seriously consider arresting anyone who is Latino and not carrying proof of residency on them at all times, I can’t wait until the 2010 Census...
Blippy Reveals Credit Card Numbers On Google →
And right after their NYTimes profile, too!
I’m beginning to think the NYT shouldn’t cover start-ups anymore. First they point the firehose at LineTwo and their servers crash. Then they highlight Blippy and fuel the scam. Lovely.
Brewers batter Pirates 20-0 →
Final score of this 3 game series: 36-1.
“Gould is a member of a generation that has grown up confusing irony with...”
– Ana Marie Cox sums up the inaugural class of the Digital Generation better than anyone else. (Via The Atlantic Wire)
'Gossips' say Apple will acquire ARM →
Well that would be big.
“Iceland’s last wish: to have its ashes scattered all over Europe”
– An anonymous market analyst. (Via Marginal Revolution)
Box Optimization: Video iPad Apps Could be a Boon... →
Whoa. Hadn’t even thought about this…
In my ever-evolving TV setup, it seems that a box is never added without mirroring part of the function of other boxes in my setup. It’s an odd balance of 4 boxes, all of which have some overlap of function, yet there has been no sort of disruption in 2 years that would allow me to have less than 4 boxes.
But in a few short weeks, iPad apps...
“If you’ve got good juxtapositions, you don’t have to worry about what I regard...”
– John McPhee, interviewed in the Paris Review. (Via The Paris Review)
“Fuck exposition. If I can make you curious enough, there’s this thing...”
– David Simon.
I have such a love/hate relationship with this guy. I love his shows but think he’s a blowhard. Sometimes in the middle of his uncompromising rants he drops a gem like this, and I’m torn. (Via William Gibson)
“A second reason, however, was that I am indebted to the British welfare state;...”
– J.K. Rowling. While I don’t line up with much of her politics, this is a nice stand, one against an all too common and unknown bit of trickery.
Perhaps this is a communications challenge that needs to be addressed: how can there be pride in paying taxes? Just yesterday I caught a shot of Fox...
“By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of...”
– GameStation inserted this clause into their terms & conditions. 7,500 people agreed. (Via FOXNews.com)
The All-Jane Austen Team →
C: Taylor Hill Teagarden
1B: Joshua S. Whitesell
2B: Brent Stuart Lillibridge
SS: Clifton Randolph Pennington
3B: James Gordon Beckham III
LF: Aaron R. Cunningham
CF: Jonathan Eugene Van Every
RF: Joshua David Willingham
DH: Thomas James Everidge
It goes on…
“Rumor has it Sony’s upset that Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry turned in an...”
– io9
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Donovan McNabb: 'I'd Like To Thank The Ungrateful,... →
Via the Onion.
Quiz: Ad Agency or Indie Band? →
I scored 4 out of 7. It’s hard.
“For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly half a...”
– From Neil Armstrong’s open letter to Obama. (Via The Atlantic Wire)