Listen, guys. I’m writing to encourage you all to start using Twitter. In case you don’t know what it is, it is a waste of time that takes place in a number of different places, ranging from your web browser to your cell phone to your internet-enabled refrigerator. I know it’s a stupid, pointless activity, [...]
Entries from October 2007
C’mon. It won’t hurt.
October 25, 2007
The Next Stephen Glass
October 22, 2007
Someone in my class at the journalism school asked if it would be okay to have her boyfriend give her answers for the take home exam. No, really. And when she was told that no, it wouldn’t be okay to have someone else do her work for her, she was seriously upset about it. The [...]
One way to get over a crushing Redskins loss
October 15, 2007
Oh sweet lord. This is hilarious, especially because it features a classic Van Damme moment.Anyway, my prediction for the Skins game wasn’t way off (except for a little detail… the actual outcome). I’m disappointed in the wide receivers, who couldn’t make a play all day long. Cooley and Campbell were great, the RBs were adequate, [...]
How Online Poker is Like Quantum Mechanics
October 14, 2007
I was listening to this week’s Ante Up podcast, and the guys had a long argument about something that has always bugged people who play poker online: how do we know these sites aren’t screwing us over? It would be facile for a poker site to rig the deal in various ways, such that the [...]
Football predictions
October 13, 2007
Redskins/Packers:
Favre throws 3 interceptions, Skins recover 2 fumbles, Campbell has 1 TD and 1 interception, and the Packers lose by a field goal.
Patriots/Cowboys:
Romo stinks up the joint. Brady and Moss are awesome. The hated Cowboys lose by 24.
Video Friday
October 12, 2007
First, this:
Then, this:
I love techno viking.
The risks of the new music economy
October 9, 2007
I just preordered In Rainbows and opted to pay a total of three pounds, forty-five pence (including the sneaky credit card processing fee). I think that means I paid about seven bucks for the album, which I consider to be a fair price. But since I could have legitimately paid nothing for it (context: Radiohead [...]
Journalism reaches its acme
October 5, 2007
Caps’ Semin Still an Unknown Quantity
Kudos to you, unknown Washington Post editor. You made many people giggle.
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