July 2, 2008
New Kids on the Block’s new addition is … NEW EDITION

Remember how I told you New Kids on the Block were not doing their golden oldies reunion the “right way”? Well I’d like to partially take that back because they’ve made a very wise…

July 1, 2008
“ Why do Lego look so delicious but taste so bad?
A Gizmodo reader asks in ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lego’.
June 30, 2008
“

Those who are lit by that passion are the object of envy among their peers and the subject of intense curiosity. They are the source of good ideas. They make the extra effort. They demonstrate the commitment. They are the ones who, day by day, will rescue this drifting ship.

They never watched the clock, never dreaded Mondays, never worried about the years passing by. They didn’t wonder where they belonged in life. They were phenomenally productive and confident in their value.

From Po Bronson, ‘What Should I Do With My Life?’, Fast Company.

I’M NOT THERE YET.

“ It’s possible Chinglish will be more efficient than our version, doing away with word endings and the articles a, an, and the. After all, if you can figure out “Environmental sanitation needs your conserve,” maybe conservation isn’t so necessary.
Michael Erard looks at ‘How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand’ in Wired. There are now more people who speak bad English than good. So many in fact that English which had tamper process will be standard voice.
Jay-Z retaliates with a ‘Wonderwall’ Oasis cover at Glastonbury

Over the weekend at Glastonbury, headliner Jay-Z made a cheeky dig at bad mouther Noel Gallagher with his own bad mouthing of the Oasis song ‘Wonderwall’. He even made an attempt at strumming…

“ I’m pretty sure I ain’t a queer. And I’ve never had queer thoughts, but I do have several queer buddies who called me and asked me to help. I think it’s blasphemy to put this on the ballot and try to divide God’s children for political gain. God loves them queers every bit that he loves the Republicans.
Dave “Mudcat” Saunders, as quoted in ‘When Bubba Meets Obama’.
“ Mudcat, who describes himself as “an old-timey Democrat: pro-gun, pro-God, pro fiscal conservatism,” is tired of teaching remedial Mudcat Math to deaf ears in his own party. It can be distilled as The Twofer Strategy: If you get a rural white voter who otherwise would have voted for McCain to switch to Obama, his vote is worth twice as much as a vote from your standard “liberal pinko commie” or your MTV Rock-the-Voter, since Obama not only accrues one vote for himself, but also takes one away from McCain. Campaigns that court the base while ignoring voters who could be won over are “hunting squirrels they’ve already killed.
Meet an unlikely Democrat in the Appalachia region of the US. Matt Labash talks to Dave “Mudcat” Saunders about how Obama can woo the ‘Guns & God’ types in ‘When Bubba Meets Obama’, The Weekly Standard.
Remember this? And this, and this, and this.
Remember this? And this, and this, and this.
June 29, 2008
“ The [mainstream] media are covering so many issues as though there’s two sides to every issue. And that’s one of the problems. So instead of the main purpose, and highest goal of journalism is ferreting out the truth, suddenly it’s become let’s show you both sides, and then you make up your mind. A sort of Pontius Pilate approach to issues.
Ariana Huffington on one of her biggest issues with traditional media, in this conversation with Guardian’s editor Alan Rusbridger. Earlier in the talk Ariana points out that Huffington does “take a stance” on certain things.
June 27, 2008
“ Our national ability to pick up chicks will reach heights unparalleled in human history.
A user of the web portal Tianya comments on the growing shortage of women in China, as quoted in ‘No Country for Young Men’, The New Republic.