Happy Birthday, America. You’re the best!
America’s Funniest Home Videos Intro.
[Book]MarkPike's
thereifixedit.com
Q: How would I describe this site?
A: Occam’s Razor— if Occam shaved with a butter knife tied to a hockey stick with duct tape.
A: Occam’s Razor— if Occam shaved with a butter knife tied to a hockey stick with duct tape.
“If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous, you need to go to his home in Virginia. Monticello.”
Maira Kalman, you’re pretty fantastic.
Time Wastes Too Fast - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com
Internet + Iran
“A conversation about the Internet’s role in the coverage of the Iranian elections.”
Great discussion hosted by Charlie Rose (so professional) featuring friend and former co-worker Nico Pitney (blogger extraordinaire), Facebook friend and Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly (kelly2010.com), and one of my nerd-crushes Jonathan Zittrain (intellectual giant).
Vegas paper gets subpoena to ID online commenters
A Nevada newspaper says it has been served a federal grand jury subpoena seeking information about readers who posted comments on the paper’s Web site.
Thinking out loud… Newspapers can have anonymous sources, but you cannot comment on those anonymous sources anonymously?
The comments are written under pseudonyms. Along with the real names of people who posted comments, the subpoena asks the newspaper for the writers’ gender, birth date, physical address, telephone number, Internet service provider, IP address and credit card numbers.
Q: What was Publius’ credit card number?
A: No. 10
“ The people making the policy,” he said, “don’t understand the technicalities. ”
E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress - NYTimes.com
Mr. Holt added that few lawmakers could challenge the agency’s statements because so few understood the technical complexities of its surveillance operations.
This needs to change.
Boomshakalaka
Required Viewing: Chiranjeevi, the most famous Tollywood actor of all-time, schooling some creeps on the hardwood in the greatest finish to a basketball game film patrons have ever seen.
MONDAY AM BONUS: Our old friend Mark Pike has put together an “Amazing” version of this clip that, for once, warrants this description:
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Janko Nilovic: Space From Psyc’ Impressions (Montparnasse, 1970)
The sample off of Jay-Z’s “The Death of Auto-Tune” on Blueprint 3 (via Soul Sides).
I thought it was a Kanye beat first time I heard it (despite the No I.D. namecheck), as it seems pretty derivative of “The Takeover”. Which is all to say, it’s fire.
The original though- the sample- it is the soundtrack to the slow-motion montage of this summer afternoon.
Virginia Unity Rally.
Williamsburg, VA.
I’m pretty sure they mentioned the Arlington Rap video. If that doesn’t convince you to vote Democrat in Virginia, we really can’t do much else.
