November 30, 2009

Reading the List: Notable Posts of the Day

cleavingcover.jpgCharles Johnson headlines we really don't give a flying fuck about: "Little Green Footballs - Why I Parted Ways With The Right"

Charles Johnson headlines we expect to see: "Charles Johnson on Suicide Watch"

Overheard on Twitter. | Little Miss Attila “Charles Johnson’s girlfriend left him, so he broke up with her.”

Nice girl of "Julie and Julia" turns into mean selfish bitch in "Cleaving."

On Positive Feedback "Name three positive feedback systems in nature. Get back to me on that when you're done." -- finem respice

"No, let's not agree to disagree." An Exercise in Futility notes,

"for a liberal, there's nothing worse than open conversation about their ideas with a conservative who doesn'€™t agree.  I find nine times out of ten the conversation ends with "€œlet'€™s agree to disagree"€, uttered by them."

Bookworm Room » A literary take on scientific corruption

"€˜The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit."

Decisions, Decisions - WSJ.com President Obama has no trouble making them! Well, except when they're hard.

Forget that nucleus/cell-wall model from high-school science lab: There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Simple’ Organism @ Wired.com

John Zmirak discusses Andy Warhol's Art of Sloth and the other mounds of fetid crap that pass for art in this diseased era.

Bizarre google searches: text me what your last dream was about 831 521 9452 - Google Search

Most racist page currently popular on Facebook | Why black people are superior to white people "Because we dont kiss our dogs in the mouth." (Oh really?)

Phony lonely guy: Obama at the Great Wall ォ Iconic Photos

The president's visit was far from a lonely pilgrimage -- Chinese police officers guard the sentry tower and CIA agents are scattered throughout the crowd. His entourage and press corps were kept deliberately apart throughout the visit by some 300 highly trained Secret Service bodyguards...

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Al Gore, Global Putz: "One need only look at Gore these days, to identify an animal with very deep psychological wounds. (Hard to blame him. Losing to the likes of Bush II in the way he did would prompt any man to seek planetary dominion to compensate)" Shocked, Shocked to Find That Fraud is Going on in Here | finem respice

One billion dollars this year alone: American government: It's always subsidized commercial media

LocalNewser: Michael Rosenblum on the Death of Local News from Mark Joyella on Vimeo.

Lost Remote
“Local TV news is already dead,” says Michael Rosenblum in this interview with Mark Joyella. ... “Burn the place to the ground” and start over with a low cost structure.

Posted by Vanderleun at November 30, 2009 6:40 PM
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Core's Law of New Media: There Is No Such Thing As Local News Anymore: In the Internet Age, anything anybody has said, or written, or done — anywhere, anytime — can sooner or later become known everywhere else.

Posted by: ELC at December 1, 2009 5:14 AM

Or the saying "All news is local" becomes "All news is localized."

Posted by: vanderleun at December 1, 2009 5:22 AM

Now's a good time to explain what "Little Green Footballs" really are: boogers.

Posted by: ahem at December 1, 2009 5:43 AM

The One looks quite at home as he reflects on all socialist success. We can only hope that HIS pilgrimage to the wall gives him the same luck that it gave to Nixon.

Posted by: JD at December 1, 2009 6:43 AM
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