Archive for September, 2010

Know This:

• Confirmed: Rahm Emanuel out by Friday.

• Senate approves legislation to lower volume on commercials.

• McDonald’s: WSJ’s health care coverage drop report false.

• Anderson Cooper to host daytime talk show.

• RIP: Tony Curtis,  legendary Oscar-nominated actor, dead at 85. Also: Poet Michael Gizzi, dead at 51.

Read This:

• Today’s Big Read: St. Petersburg Times writes long, thoughtful obit for Crab Shack dishwasher who died in hit-and-run. (thanks ram!)

• Congress to Colbert: Drop dead.

• LA Times features full front page ad masked as news. Surprisingly, some people have a problem with this.

• Rights to MYST film adaptation optioned. Related: Munsters remake in the works.

• THR asks: Will white be the only color on the red carpet at the 83rd Academy Awards?

• Where the Words “Geek” and “Nerd” Came From.

Look At This:

• The Big Picture: Human landscapes in SW Florida.

• First official photo of future North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un released.

• Steve Martin’s October tour ideas “leaked.”

The Other:

• NewsFeed: Silly Bandz: The New Way to Flirt?

• Techland: Kevin Rose Still Digging His Bad Decisions.

• Tea x Time List: 10 Orange Creatures More Qualified to Write a Novel Than Snooki.

• Above: Elderly couple converts 1976 Mazda pickup truck into Radio Flyer car. (via.)

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I Want To Go To There of the Day: Welcome to Heaven. May I take your order?

[epicponyz.]

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Things That Make You Go Hmm of the Day: Two days ago, The Fat Jew took to Twitter to inform tweeting rappers that their repeated usage of LOL was somewhat less than “gangster.” Two days later (i.e., today), Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan noted that “In the last 16 hours, 51% of 50 Cent’s 37 tweets have contained ‘Lol’” (including one particularly homophobic tweet (above) that has the LGBT blogosphere up in arms).

Considering The Fat Jew’s observation, and given what they say about homophobia, could Fiddy be trying to tell us something?

[@fatjew / gawker.]

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Fun With Google Definitions of the Day: Well, sure, if you want to define an entire village solely on the basis of a single minor event.

[ignoredprayers. (nsfw)]

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This Is All Kinds Of Awesome of the Day: Google Street View arrives in Antarctica.

Above: A waddle of Chinstrap penguins spotted on Half Moon Island.

[googleblog.]

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This Won’t End Well of the Day: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

[reddit.]

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Freaky Pareidolia of the Day: Condensation creates haunting alien visages in the windows of the Corinth, Texas headquarters of CoServ Electric.

[boingboing.]

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