Archive for March, 2007
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007Word has it that “Jimbo” Wales, the guru behind Wikipedia, has his sights set on the Don’t Be Evil boys via his for-profit Wikia, Inc. Wales, doing his best comfort woman impersonation, is advocating a collaborative, open-source search engine. Great, if I want to search for someone allegedly involved in the Kennedy assassinations. Both of [...]
If you want people to like you…
Sunday, March 18th, 2007….first decide who needs to hate you. So begins the subtitle of the article “Polarize Me” from April’s Fast Company magazine. The article is largely a lot of blather about the unimaginative things people say in the headlines of their personal ads, and about the unimaginatively earnest slogans of do-gooder products. The article talks about [...]
Oh, Duotone on the Wall
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007Accompanied by the lovely Michelle, a fellow Louisianian also living in DC, I descended upon DAR Constitution Hall last night for the Shins concert. I was no Shins n00b, but this was my first foray into live Shintertainment. Special thanks go to Darkcafe, the eBayer who sent me first-row tix when the auction I won [...]
This is Sp….bwahahahah, and the Curious Case of the Misappropriated Kidney, aka the Net Benefit Policy
Monday, March 12th, 2007The film club saw 300 yesterday. As Norm MacDonald famously said about Interview with the Vampire, this movie was “not gay enough”. The film is yet another Frank Miller graphic novel gorgeously adapted to the screen, albeit with a good deal of revisionist history thrown in for good measure. The movie is all bombastic speeches, [...]
Dispatches from the frontier
Saturday, March 10th, 2007It’s already been blogged to death, digg’d, Farked, and emailed countless times in the last few days, but I don’t think you can look too often at a screenshot or video of a “news” reader blabbering about Krispy Kreme’s new, “healthy” wheat donut with an image over her left shoulder that suggests the donuts are [...]
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