My internet friend Tracy wrote a post about Deadspin that kind of blew up. Here’s the lede:The thing about sports is that it, well, tends to be an old-boys’ club. The sports world is full of sexist shit that pisses me off if I think about it too much (and, honestly, I’m not often prone [...]

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Hey, Common Sense Dancing did it again. EW has another list up, of “the New Classics”—movies of the last 25 years. The ones I’ve seen are in bold, the ones I’ve seen and loathed are in bold/italics (spoiler alert: the movies I hated are Hoop Dreams, Drugstore Cowboy, and Napoleon Dynamite). Enjoy this fascinatingself-indulgent look [...]

Posted in Media, Movies

From the NY Times’ Talking Business column*:What is it with Steven P. Jobs and batteries? On Friday, Apple’s new iPhone went on sale (for a mere $199; how does that make you early adopters feel who stood in line last year for the privilege of plunking down three times that amount? Just wondering.) In their [...]

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*But not really.Michael Gerson is very worried about vulgarity in politics:In 2006, after a long monologue about a dog and its vomit, Franken impersonated the deceased Sen. Strom Thurmond as saying: “Yeah, I screwed a woman who was vomiting once.” He once proposed a television sketch about a female CBS reporter being drugged and raped. [...]

Posted in Media, Politics/Law

This column is hilarious. First, the Washington Post’s business columnist reveals that he’s never bought a smartphone. Then he holds out the WIRELESS PHONE SERVICE INDUSTRY—a highly regulated field dominated by a handful of companies rapidly consolidating into a duopoly—as a bastion of competition in the free market! This is especially funny because the industry [...]

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I just read a really good piece in Slate: Is This Tantrum on the Record? The ground rules for writing about your kids. Emily Bazelon describes her qualms about writing about her son:
What are the ground rules for writing about your kids, especially on the Internet, with its freewheeling meanness and permanent archive? Will my [...]

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CNN.com has this weird new thing where you can take a headline and put it on a t-shirt. This is silly enough, but thanks to someone who wasn’t super careful you can easily hack the HTML to make your own. So I guess my point is, please buy me this. Thanks.

In case CNN wises up [...]

Posted in Internet Hi-Jinx, Media

So, a guy on the internet got his hands on an old cache of files from the company (now defunct) that released a bunch of great text-based computer games, including the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a huge hit game (based on Douglas Adams’s masterpiece) that made a lot of money. They also worked on [...]

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