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Archive for March, 2007
The word of the day is domination. World Domination and it begins with the letter C.
Posted in Business on March 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ll keep stealing, thank you very much
Posted in Business, Music on March 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve often wondered (hypothetically and from afar, because I don’t pay for music from the internet), what happens when a person buys a song from iTunes, and then later they decide they want the whole album. I guess people have been buying the album in its entirety, creating a duplicate of the single and spending [...]
Not Fuzzy Lumpkins and the meat gun, save us Powerpuff Girls!
Posted in Nanny State on March 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I think it was Fuzzy Lumpkins and the meat gun and not Doug Sohn who was responsible for selling hot dogs to all the innocents in Chicago. Too bad it was Doug Sohn who got the $250 fine. The “NYT” saves us all from foie gras.
The city imposed a fine of $250 Thursday on Doug [...]
overheard in DC:
Posted in DC on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
:a guy who works for the U.S. treasury department about how he spent time in a meeting with government officials discussing whether they should/could get Ali G. to make fun of Al-Qadea as a “strategic communication” initiative
New York Magazine: where the love never dies.
Posted in Pop Culture on March 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I joined Media Bistro this past fall. I love it. I get “Wired” every month and I get “New York Magazine.” First of all, I miss read that second part. I thought I was getting the “New Yorker.” Slight difference. “New York Magazine” little by little has been annoying me to the core.
Anyways, this [...]
What is NOW thinking?
Posted in Family Values, What the Fuck? on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From WaPo today:
It’s called the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Initiative, and the Bush administration doles out up to $50 million annually to fund its programs to build job skills and help fathers connect better with their children.
Washington City Paper had a feature article about the initiative a few weeks ago. Part of the DC group’s [...]
snack food advertising most dangerous thing on TV
Posted in Obesity on March 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Does Center for Science in the Public Interest have some sort of satanic contract with WaPo that they must be quoted in every single news article about snacks, childhood, or obesity the paper ever publishes?
and then moses said unto the people: arghhh! here be the 10 commandments, maties!”
Posted in Funniness, Random on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I know it’s really tedious to tell people about funny terms that people searched to get to your blog and all that, but I found this one particularly funny. Maybe only ’cause it’s 8 in the morning and I just woke up, but: “pirates in the bible.”
I am really excited to know that somehow [...]
Not a boy, not yet a man; Harry Potter’s getting his final fix.
Posted in Pop Culture on March 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The new cover for the latest Harry Potter book is out. Beware of flying mini elbows on July 21. Those kids punch hard for their Potter.
When I grow up: “When I grow up I want to marry LeBron James and have a house with a theater, bowling alley and casino.
Posted in Ohio on my Mind on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I hope the Cavs keep him forever. As a former Ohioian, I am still a die hard Cavs fan (and Indians)!
This makes me giggle.
A first-floor master suite, which includes a two-story walk-in closet, will be about 40 feet wide and 56 feet long — bigger than half the houses in Bath Township.The house has [...]
smoke-easies, altoid tins, blue moon, janis joplin and vivid imaginations
Posted in Ohio on my Mind, Tobacco on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Via To the People, a piece on Philly.com about “smoke-easies.”
Now “smoke-easies” are nothing new. When my former hometown of Columbus, OH, banned smoking last year, my favorite bars generally didn’t pay heed. One of my favorite neighborhood watering holes got rid of their tell-tale signs of being a smoking establishment, ashtrays, and replaced them [...]
indie CD sales up despite music industry digital-doom-mongering?
Posted in Music, Pop Culture, Tech Policy on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
iTunes may have killed the radio star, but not the indie rocker: sales of physical cds for independent musicians has increased 30 percent over the past year, according to Derek Sivers, the founder of CD Baby (an online store selling indie cds) in a press conference for the Rock the Net coalition yesterday.
Via Harold [...]
It’s like a Paris Hilton sex tape, without the sex.
Posted in Pop Culture on March 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Just when you’d imagine that stupid had flatlined, there is Justin.tv. Back in the late 90’s and early 00’s were the rush of the movies about the” slice of life 24 hour documentaries.” Lets see, there was the “Truman Show” and “Ed TV.” So why now are we forced to see people pee on [...]
Rockstar Writer Crushes!
Posted in Writer-Crushes on March 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh dude, my writer crush, Haruki Murakami just won an award.
The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region. The Prize consists of a cash [...]
Washington, D.C.: Our subway system is as easy as our interns
Posted in PR on March 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I can’t take credit for any of this. It goes to The DC Universe.
Apparently jealous of cities with catchy slogans like “Metronatural” and “What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas,” D.C. is looking to come up with something better than its current crapfest of a slogan, “Washington, D.C.: The American Experience.”
Hm. This is a [...]
net neutrality: now with side-swept emo bangs
Posted in Pop Culture, Tech Policy on March 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It’s hard to make net neutrality sexy.
But Frank Ahrens at WaPo’s tech blog thinks Michael Stipe and the Death Cab kids are just the way to do it.
REM, Death Cab and others are joining together to form Rock the Net, a group of musicians in support of network neutrality. For those of you [...]
Why did the blonde get fired from the M&M factory?
Posted in Snarking on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Via Asapacker, a twist on some old racist/sexist jokes:
Why did the blonde get fired from the M&M factory?
Repeated absences and stealing.
A black man is going to get a vasectomy. He shows up to the doctor’s office wearing a suit. The doctor asks, “Why are you wearing a suit?”
The black man replies, “I just got [...]
smoking bans everywhere!
Posted in Health Morality, Nanny State, Tobacco on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Via Michael Siegel at The Rest of the Story, an op-ed in The Australian by Simon Chapman, a professor of public health, about the ethics of public health policy, and tobacco policy in particular.
Apparently, Australia has enacted some pretty intense smoking bans lately: ban on smoking in cars with children, ban on smoking in [...]
well, pulling out is still free
Posted in Education, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Sex on March 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Check out this article about a huge hike in the cost of birth control at colleges. I direct you to it as I almost missed it entirely. It’s in the ‘Student News’ section of the Education section of today’s CNN website. Even though, per the article, 39% of undergraduate women are on oral contraception, [...]
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