January 2008
21 posts
“Barack Obama on Tuesday night aimed to scrub Tony Rezko’s taint…”
– The beginning of an actual lead sentence in a Chicago Sun-Times article. Amazing. (link)
Best thing I heard watching last night's SOTU...
As the president was making his way through the crowd of Republicans trying to stick their noses up his ass after last night’s State of the Union address, some Southern Belle with a thick drawl said “Mr. Bush, you make me proud to be an American.” Right after, NBC’s patch to Richard Engel in Baghdad came through and he painted a much different picture than the fairy tale...
Designing websites is hard...
So even though I have been hooked into the internets since my preteen years and (think I) have an above average understanding of web-based marketing, I’m quickly realizing that I should have expanded my knowledge beyond HTML and learned CSS, Flash, MySQL and all that good stuff.
He was mad she used a body double...
Authorities have charged a teenage boy who said he planned to hijack a commercial jetliner in an attempt to commit suicide, an FBI spokesman told CNN late Thursday. […] The teen wanted to crash the plane into a Hannah Montana concert in Lafayette, Louisiana, two CNN television affiliates in Nashville, WSMV and WTVF, reported, citing unnamed sources. The concert is scheduled for Friday...
Maybe we couldn’t be so easily convinced to wage unnecessary wars if people cared as much about soldiers and foreign civilians as they do about actors. — marco
If you’ve ever played Counter-Strike as a counter-terrorist, wiped out the rest of the terrorists after they planted the bomb, then started to diffuse it and typed “/kill” into the console, Wired has a hilarious article for you. Oh the memories of gaming nerddom.
Cyber: Don't go see Cloverfield
Me: Yeah I've heard mixed things
Cyber: Horrible
Me: Sucks
Cyber: I'd rather have watched 2girls1cup a thousand times
Shheeeeeeiiiiiiiiitttttttttt
Isiah Whitlock Jr.’s character Sen. Clay Davis has arguably the most identifiable catch phrase on “The Wire,” yet Whitlock is still doing commercials (I just saw one for Southwest Airlines during the Pats/Chargers game but couldn’t find it online yet). I hope he’s doing it for the love of acting and not because he needs the work.
If animal sex or child molestation is your thing, you’ll be happy to know that Mike Huckabee thinks you’re no worse than a homosexual.
This band from St. Louis has friend requested me twice this week on MySpace. Apparently they are playing a “big” show in Chicago this weekend and feel it’s important enough to include it as part of their name. While I think MySpace is a vast wasteland for the most part, I still think it can be a successful marketing tool for bands — if they sit down and really think about a...
Only in Wisconsin... →
“Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn’t wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team’s playoff victory Saturday, a man restrained the boy for an hour with tape and taped the jersey onto him.”
How it was born...
Jeff: i think i may start a tumblr Teddy: and i think you totally should Jeff: the hard part is just thinking of a cool domain name Teddy: yeah, that is hard Teddy: take a good song you like or something Jimi Hendrix’s live version of “There Goes Easy Rider/7 Dollars...