For a brief period of time, MySpace was the site where everyone kept their profile and managed their friendships. But soon, the service began to attract fake profiles, the wrong kind of white people, and struggling musicians. In real world terms, these three developments would be equivalent to a check cashing store, a TGIFridays, and [...]

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The Chicago Bears put on a display of inaccurate passing, sluggish route running, and careless ball-handling Wednesday as the team exhibited their new-look-like-shit offense to fans and media attending training camp to view a full-squad practice.
Hah.
⇒ Bears Unveil New-Look-Like-Shit Offense (the Onion)

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And, so, whatever two or three issues the Democratic nominee has changed his emphasis on are inevitably blown up into a devastating character indictment. The Charles Krauthammers and Sean Hannitys of the world can be counted on to whip themselves into a moralistic frenzy against the feckless Democrat. And news reporters will stroke their chins [...]

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Horatio thinks he saw a ghost.
Hamlet thinks it’s annoying when your uncle marries your mother right after your dad dies.
The king thinks Hamlet’s annoying.
Laertes thinks Ophelia can do better.
Hamlet’s father is now a zombie.
(continued)
Good stuff.
⇒ Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition). (McSweeney’s)

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Tonight, like usual, I decided to take a short nap. And short for me means 30 min to an hour.
So it was 8:30ish, and I didn’t think I was that tired. I’d wake up and continue reading and such.
So my “nap” ended up boing a little over 5 hours long. From 8:30ish [...]

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What really makes for good neighbors, as the 562 residents have learned over the years, is a post office like the one this town has enjoyed since the 1800s. Tucked into a tiny corner of the general store, the post office is our town commons, a place where neighbor has no choice but to rub [...]

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Slate has a video slideshow discussing fighting in movies, and how it now has progressed to the choppy, blurry, “the cameraman has epilepsy” style. A very engaging read.
⇒ Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan, and the rise of the choppy fight scene (Slate.com)

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Yes, the underbelly of journalism involves chasing politicians out of seedy hotels in the dark of night, taping conversations and nosing through quasi-personal records, but it should most definitely not involve stealing personal appeals to higher powers.
Yep, while Obama was at the Western Wall, he left a prayer, as is the tradition. Someone [...]

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This brings back fond memories of quizbowl.
(via DrawerGeeks)

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But Scion has lately seemed to harbor a bit of a self-destructive streak. Walking around my neighborhood a little while back, I happened on a large billboard for the Scion xB. It had a photo of the car and two big check boxes. One was labeled “Champ,” the other “Chump.” Both were empty.
The billboard struck [...]

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“Negative to Positive” centers around images of Tracy’s brain from that long-ago scan, on which she has etched thoughts she penned back when she was seeking help—such somewhat cryptic observations as, “Throw stuff out there,” or “Every thought gets a new wrinkle.” Mementos, urgings, shadows of life, these black-and-white images underscore the fragility—and potential—of the [...]

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Although I lived and worked in New York City, this woman–I’ll call her Heather–was one of the few Americans I interacted with during the course of a typical workday. While in law school, I had applied for an internship at the Israeli U.N. Mission. Instead, despite not even being Israeli, I was offered a full-time [...]

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So there was an earthquake today near LA, and twitter proved its usefulness, yet again. Within seconds of the earthquake hitting, people were already tweeting about it. If you look at the graph, you see that NBC San Diego reported the news right around the time when the majority of the people had [...]

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As such, editorials are a rare voice in our national culture and politics; they are the product of a Socratic enterprise, guided by the idea that debate produces wisdom.
A defense by the LA Times on why papers should keep their editorials. While I do not agree with their specific political leaning, I do appreciate [...]

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Fuel economy: It’s not just what you drive, it’s how you drive. So-called eco-driving programs, now a part of driver education programs across Europe, can help drivers achieve fuel savings of up to 25% simply by doing such things as avoiding unnecessary braking and rapid acceleration. In Australia, the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria found, [...]

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