I’m in Boston, attending the Internet & Society conference at the Berkman Center tomorrow and Friday. I was perusing the Boston free paper on the metro (which they call “the T” here and which, incidentally, totally sucks compared to the DC metro — more on that later, with photographic evidence. and probably more on the [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Boston legislators crack down on convenience store novelty items
Posted in Drugs, What the Fuck? on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jordin Sparks: too “full-figured” to be an American Idol?
Posted in Pop Culture on May 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Lybrel more of a marketing tactic than a novel idea (pills without periods not exactly new)
Posted in Advertising, Blogging Bandwagon, Family Values, Reproductive Rights, Stupid Media Frenzy... on May 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
ABC News:As 21st century women dominate the universities and continue to climb the executive ladder, and metro-sexual men explore their feminine side, it’s harder to define what it means to be a woman
In the mildly frustrating category of the week … why is everyone so up in arms about this “new” birth control that allows [...]
new kind of Web video
Posted in Art on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What happens when you take Internet video out of its little YouTube box? Or use a mix of flash and video to tell a narrative? You get the National Film Board of Canada’s strange Web site/movie hybrid. Check it out; it’s pretty fucking cool, and presents an interesting picture of where Web movies could go. [...]
new blogger
Posted in Bloggers on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome youngjoe below. Raee and I wanted this to be a group blog, but our original two other alleged contributors never contribute, so we’ve brought youngjoe on board for the time being. I will let youngjoe give his own introduction or bio if he wishes, but in the interim, I will provide … let’s see [...]
Paternalism: “I know you better than you do” says government
Posted in Libertarians, Nanny State, Tobacco on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s talk about Paternalism for a moment. This has been on my mind for a couple of days, triggered by a TV commercial regarding Ohio’s seatbelt law. Now, most people agree that wearing seatbelts in cars is good and people want to be safe while they are driving, but look at the big picture here. [...]
“I already forgot how I feel about you.”
Posted in Drugs on May 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It must be my week to quote from Forbes business magazine, I’ll just say I love netvibes and leave it at that.
In a science fiction twisted story, a professor at McGill University is attempting to pull an “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “The Giver.” Professor Karim Nader is trying erasing people’s memories. [...]
rantings on libertarianism … **
Posted in Libertarians on May 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been having a lot of frustrating conversations about libertarianism this week. First — and I suppose this isn’t really a conversation, per se, but whatever — a commenter told me:
You have to understand libertarian mind set. They feel like nothing should be changed by force. Abortion is changing the outcome of an event [...]
Don’t be fooled. The rich worry too.
Posted in Business on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Forbes has a fascinating article on what worries the rich. Tongue-in-check, yes this article exists. I wonder how it was pitched to the editors. Listen, we know what worries the poor, late payments on credit cards-not a warm fuzzy feeling. Let’s do something on the rich! They worry too. Okay, I am kidding. Honestly, [...]
porn, choices and hippie philosophy books
Posted in Blogging Bandwagon, Feminism on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a bad blogger, because I’m always so late to the game responding to anything going on. But that’s okay, because the people who read this are mostly my friends who don’t read a lot of other blogs (which is neat, because then they actually think I have something novel to say!), or the 20-or-so [...]
why can’t these people just let strippers do their jobs?
Posted in Framing, Media, Privacy, Strippers on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We get on tangents around here at Yellow is the Color. A week or so ago it was copyright stuff. This week, apparently, it’s strippers. All strippers all the time here at Yellow is the Color’ that’s my motto of the week.
Anyways, a bill proposed in Brooklyn this week would require strippers to obtain [...]
the sex lives of others
Posted in Reproductive Rights, Sex on May 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes when my favorite feminist bloggers point out that a lot of anti-abortion concern for the sanctity of the fetus is really just hatred of women and sex, other people get a little touchy. They like to accuse people making this point of being hysterical and overreacting, or dismiss them as angry man-haters looking for [...]
MPAA joins fight for strippers’ rights?
Posted in Ohio on my Mind, Strippers on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The MPAA has joined the fight against an Ohio law (SB16) that would unfairly restrict strip club workers and owners (and possibly shut them down). I wrote about the bill a few weeks ago, when a group calling themselves Dancers for Democracy gathered in front of the Ohio Statehouse to protest the proposed legislation, which [...]
It’s like watching people take the bus everyday, but this time it’s on your computer.
Posted in Pop Culture, UGC on May 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks back I posted about Justin.Tv, and I hadn’t really been back since. Then, I posted about Don’t Tell Ryan, the practical joke of video taping your friend with out his knowledge. Well, it seems I missed a few months, two to be exact, and Justin.Tv is now a network. TechCrunch had [...]
what do your magazine subscriptions and real estate records say about you? find out next election season…
Posted in Advertising, Privacy on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While pursuing the free articles in the Wall Street Journal today, I came across this one on “microtargeting” and Sara Taylor, a former top strategist in the Bush-Cheney campaign. She was a major force in the re-election in 2004.
“Ms. Taylor helped perfect political “microtargeting,” a system for squeezing votes from neglected segments of the [...]
My problem with Ron Paul:
Posted in Libertarians, Reproductive Rights on May 20, 2007 | 19 Comments »
He’s all about “personal liberty,” but on his Web site, just a few paragraphs under “Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital,” it makes a point to note that he is anti-choice on abortion. Leading advocate for freedom and personal liberty, except where women are concerned?
And for [...]
i heart dan savage
Posted in Health Morality, Media, Sex on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently a study announced by researchers at Johns Hopkins last week found evidence that oral sex leads to increased chances of getting throat cancer.
If you and your girlfriend have had more than five oral-sex partners in your lives … you are both 250 percent more likely to develop throat cancer than some sad asshole [...]
potato, potahto: I say homobigotry, you say quality control
Posted in Advertising, Homobigotry, Internet, Stupid Media Frenzy... on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t understand this kerfluffle over these ads. The ads, for online-dating-service startup Chemistry.com, feature a gaggle of attractive young people who were allegedly rejected from another online dating site, eHarmony.com. eHarmony is all riled up and asking media outlets to stop running the ads, which they feel make the site appear discriminatory and racist. [...]
Just call me Hamburger head.
Posted in Advertising, Branding on May 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What kind of former Texan would I be if I didn’t mention NASCAR! Just the world alone sends me in to shock and awe memories of going to lunch with co-workers timed around NASCAR laps. No, I am not joking. I have to say, I watched a few laps. Which makes me all more ready [...]
Woman gives birth to alligator baby! Media and public discourse today WORSE THAN EVER!
Posted in Internet, Media on May 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“It is simply no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse,” writes Al Gore in his forthcoming book, The Assault on Reason, excerpted in Time this week. The central tenet of the except is “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now [...]
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