Monthly Archives: February 2010
Is an executive’s personal opinion a good reason to defy industry standards?
If you’re Steve Jobs, and the “industry standard” is Flash, yep, it is.
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Visiting hours are over
I’ve only been to the emergency room once for an actual emergency. Since the hospital near my house is — and please note the word purportedly, because I ain’t fuckin’ with any libel lawsuit – purportedly a public death machine, I opted for the next one on the Google Maps search for “holy shit I [...]
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This is pretty much me watching Lost, that one time I watched Lost
With the exception of that last frame, which I don’t understand.
[via Videogum]
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The 6 Weirdest Things Women Do to Their Vaginas
Can’t pass up a headline like that, can you?
This would be one of those things that I’ll invariably click on Huffington Post, knowing full well its going to be somehow awful, gross, disappointing, or wrong. Turns out AlterNet is the true predator here. Either way, it wouldn’t be worth posting at all if it weren’t [...]
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Jersey Shore to continue; Pauly D kicking ass at life
Yeah you’ve already heard that the Jersey Shore crew resigned for a second-season at a pathetically low per-episode rate, which initially concerned me, until I found out they were only pulling $200 an episode each last year. With that, I sort of feel like they’re asking for it.
But Mediaite points out why these guys probably [...]
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Road Head.
WNYC published some really excellent photos of the in-progress East Side Access Project, which will connect the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central terminal in Manhattan.
It takes a lot of complex machinery to bore a hole in the earth. Pictured left (also number 14 in the slideshow linked above) is the humorously named roadheader, which [...]
All the kids will want one (why do his eyes keep moving?)
The lovable, huggable, Silly-cybin!
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On Culture
WTPWB fanatic CG apprised us of a peculiar ritualistic eating practice at his old advertising job: the competitive vending machine romp, in which two competitors purchase one of each item in a particular vending machine, split the bounty, and compete to consume the loot in a proscribed period of time. “One of them threw up [...]
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In honor of Black History Month, NBC employees are invited to dress in blackface and perform an entertaining jig.