August 2009
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Aug 26th
July 2009
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Rachel Maddow follows up her brawl with Pat Buchanan with some nice “corrections.”
Jul 21st
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Rachel Maddow invites Pat Buchanan to spew racist nonsense - and then calls him on it!
Jul 17th
June 2009
2 posts
Jun 27th
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Buffy vs. Edward from Twilight in a brilliant remix
Jun 22nd
April 2009
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Apr 3rd
March 2009
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History of Barbie TV ads
Mar 11th
February 2009
2 posts
Feb 28th
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ListenThe sound of Obama cursing a blue streak, with a...
Feb 8th
January 2009
5 posts
Old Jews Telling Jokes →
via newman
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
Bug in Democracy Fixed
Making the rounds online - no source identified… NOTICE OF RESUMPTION OF SERVICE: Dear World: We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of ideals of democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service outage has been located, and the software responsible was replaced November 4. Early tests...
Jan 24th
Boxee. Hmmmm... →
Jan 17th
iTunes removes DRM from music... →
… but no mention of video.
Jan 7th
December 2008
5 posts
Embracing the darkness of It's a Wonderful Life  →
Dec 19th
Who Said It - Tony Soprano or Rod Blagojevich? →
Dec 10th
Illinois Senate seat for sale - on eBay! →
Dec 9th
NBC to become Fox →
Clearly NBC has major Fox envy: MSNBC has become the Fox News of the left, and now NBC will yield the 10 pm timeslot to ABC and CBS. Jay Leno is playing the part of Joan Rivers in the 1980s…
Dec 9th
Diagnosing TiVo Guilt →
Dec 2nd
November 2008
15 posts
Why Academics Should Blog →
Nov 27th
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Nov 26th
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Sarah Palin & buckets of blood!
Nov 24th
Great article on collaborative filtering →
Nov 23rd
The digressive narrative logic of sitcoms →
Nov 23rd
NY Times on shifting screens of media consumption →
Nov 23rd
Chuck Klosterman on Chinese Democracy →
I have less than no interest in Guns n’ Roses. But this review makes me want to care.
Nov 19th
Recapping the YouTube election →
Nov 16th
RIP, Fire Joe Morgan →
Nov 15th
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Whatever scares you most.
Nov 11th
The Cosby Show's impact on the Obama electorate? →
Nov 9th
Nov 7th
Analysis of campaign media 2.0 →
Nov 3rd
Good profile of Bravo & the logic of narrowcasting →
Nov 2nd
Nov 2nd
October 2008
14 posts
Vlad & Boris are at it again with a new song,... →
Oct 31st
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Fabulous dismantling of McCain’s sarcastic contempt for women.
Oct 29th
Yes We Can remix →
Oct 28th
Microsoft Ads Crash Nation's Televisions →
“Although the commercials crashed nearly every available brand of plasma and LCD television, as well as afflicting older cathode-ray models, Microsoft spokesperson Sarah Machen insisted that the problem was not her company’s fault, and that it likely resulted from low memory, a fragmented disk, or perhaps an outdated video card. A press release issued by the software giant also advised...
Oct 27th
Larry David on waiting for the election →
“If Obama loses, it would be easier to live with it if it’s due to racism rather than if it’s stolen. If it’s racism, I can say, “Okay, we lost, but at least it’s a democracy. Sure, it’s a democracy inhabited by a majority of disgusting, reprehensible turds, but at least it’s a democracy.” If he loses because it’s stolen, that will be...
Oct 23rd
Oct 22nd
David Sedaris on undecided voters →
Oct 21st
Oct 21st
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Colin Powell’s eloquent endorsement of Obama.
Oct 19th
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Oct 15th
Automatic Sarah Palin Interview Generator →
Oct 2nd
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More Palin insanity from Couric’s interview: she favors “choosing life” in cases of rape or incest (but refuses to admit that she wants it to be illegal to have a choice), and views being gay as a choice. Key bits at the end of the video…
Oct 2nd
Berube's back in the blog biz →
Of course he’s been back blogging for three days, and has already posted over 6,000 words…
Oct 1st
September 2008
10 posts
America's Nigerian banking scam →
Sep 24th