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Aug 23, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Truly disturbing

I find myself agreeing with Maureen Dowd for once. Dear god, what is the world coming to?

Aug 23, 2008
Photography

Getting that 'vintage' look in your pictures

Rosie, one of my favorite photographers on Flickr, has a handy-dandy post up on her technique for achieving a ‘vintage’ look and feel in photographs, which I’ve often wanted to duplicate. I was guessing that she was taking some semi-arbitrary text...

Aug 22, 2008
Zoon Politikon

Star-Crossed?

I don’t get Barack Obama. Sure, he was annihilated by Bobby Rush back in 2000 in a primary campaign for a Congressional seat, but ever since he’s seemed like such a star-crossed politician: 2004 Senate race: Jack Ryan, a wealthy Republican who sh...

Aug 22, 2008
Zoon Politikon

A noun, a verb, and a mansion?

Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous—um, fame—isn’t exactly helping John McCain out with the hullabaloo over how many John McCain owns: In an early morning phone call Friday from his fabulous crib in Las Vegas, Leach told The Times tha...

Aug 19, 2008
Business

woohoo!

I just did something exciting that I’m probably not allowed to talk about yet. I’m sure I’ll be able to talk about it in a week or two. But it’s fun, and involves Objective C.

Aug 19, 2008
Random Funniness

This is not butter, can you not see I am serious!?

The creators of I Can Has Cheezburger just launched a new Engrish pictures website called EngrishFunny. They have one picture up of a Japanese coffee vending machine (selling something called Deepresso), which made me feel nostalgic for the vacati...

Aug 16, 2008
Technology

The Adventures of Captain Obvious

Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch wrote this followup to a recent post on VentureBeat: VentureBeat’s Eric Eldon reports:Industry sources tell us that although Android will indeed start as a mobile OS, Google intends to expand it to be a sort of univer...

Aug 16, 2008
Travel

36 Hours in Minneapolis

The NYT has a travel article up today about the sights and sounds of Minneapolis and St. Paul. All good advice, with a highlight: Tell room service to keep it quiet when they deliver coffee. Or if you are feeling ambitious, go to Al’s Breakfast in...

Aug 13, 2008
Video Games

Expectations

I’m a little worried that I may be a little over-excited about Bethesda Softworks’ upcoming title, Fallout 3…and by that, I really mean that if this game is anything less than THE BEST GODDAMNED GAME EVER RELEASED I AM GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY DISAP...