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Wow: "In 2009, the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily e-mail editions." I will be sad when the NYT does this in a few years, leaving me to download PDFs to a gadget
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Alaska's main newspaper endorses Obama. The editors neatly sidestep any pro-Palin bias by focusing (rightly) on the two candidates for President, then politely put the governor in her place, noting her extreme lack of experience
Category: Internet (Page 16 of 40)
Now online: MTV Music. So obvious and wonderful it’s amazing it took this long. Not only is it great for archival purposes, it’s also a chance to see videos that don’t get much air time in this post-music video era. Shame it took MTV so many years to roll out an easy-to-use music video archive, but hey, better late than never.
What I’ve watched this morning, blissfully all over the map:
~ Godley and Creme, Cry (probably my favorite video, period)
~ Val Emmich, Get on with It
~ LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out (live Unplugged)
~ Estelle, American Boy (she looks nothing like I expected)
~ Kiss, I Love It Loud
~ Queens of the Stone Age, Go with the Flow (check the similarities in the glowing eyes to the Kiss video)
~ Living Colour, Cult of Personality
I’m disappointed by some conspicuous omissions (Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way” is a huge lack; “Ray of Light,” “You Oughta Know” too), but in general, it’s both fun and fascinating.
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Sorry Choire!
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This is what we've come to: even plunging stock prices disappoint us when they don't plunge strongly
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Clever concept for getting frequent flier miles essentially for nothing, but it seems like a lot of effort for $10 in value
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Neil Gaiman tries to buy a G1 phone. Most noteworthy for the soon-to-be-universal term, "Do the Google"
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Check out the last two photos, Los Angeles 1908 vs. 2008. hoo wee
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It's a really, really bad sign when a company whose stock price is at 27 cents plans on doubling the number of shares outstanding. Note to self: don't spend money on new sat radio gadgets anytime soon
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Matt is so… Oregonian
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Bottled water: not just bad for the environment, but potentially bad for you, too! I've started keeping chilled water in my fridge, 1970s-style. But sadly we still crank through a case of Poland Spring every two weeks
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I really, really, really want to do this with my kid next year
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"I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. 'Can I interest you in the chicken?' she asks. 'Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?' To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked."
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How true, how true
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Obnoxious to the point of embarrassing. How does Fox call its output journalism?
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This explains everything (until tomorrow at least)
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Simple but funny
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The best and brightest in the conservative movement are shying away from its own candidate. Christopher Buckley: "I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. … Obama has in him the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for. … And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November."
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Right or wrong, herein lies the reason "Main Street" disdains "Wall Street" and got the House to symbolically reject the initial bailout proposal. (For reality-check purposes, remember that median American household income is just over $50,000.)
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Countries whose web-savvy populace is behind McCain: Georgia, Moldova, Macedonia. Those supporting Obama: everyone else. This really may be a tipping point between America's global prominence or a cessation of leadership
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The article notes it's not unprecedented, but it's still blowing my mind
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Google's posted its oldest available index from 2001 (although the site predates that). Then as now netwert.com is tops for my name
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Interesting read, and don't miss the nuggets on poker player par excellence Dale Peck (although recklessly entertaining poker player Choire Sicha excoriated the article to me on AIM)
On Friday I posted in this space a link to a YouTube file of Sarah Palin’s Miss Alaska swimsuit competition. YouTube quickly removed the link, but investigative blogger nonpareil Andy Baio saved the footage and posted it on his own server. Take a look: this woman could be next in line for the presidency come November. (Andy is also the one who unearthed the YouTube post.)
Related: Katie Couric interviews Sarah Palin. Repeat: this woman could be next in line for the presidency.