Sarah Palin’s Unknown Quality Sparks Tragic Internet Meme (2)
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John McCain made a vice presidential choice, but no one knows her? Time to establish a complete waste-of-time TWITTER MEME in which one may use other INTERNET MEME JOKES to describe her. This is the most important Internet development since TUMBLR. Oh who are we kidding. We’re still getting over the lack of Mittens on this ticket, and it’ll take some time. [Twitter]
Your First Look At McCain-Palin’s America (8)
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Thanks to Wonkette fine arts operative “Kevin” for sending us this sneak peek of the official new McCain-Palin poster. It is an image for the New America. Don’t hope for Change — Photoshop it.
Lunchables: Ten Lunch Boxes And Accessories (8)
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In the spirit of the back-to-school season, this week we highlight a few products to help keep you organized and productive as you resume your routine. With a national obesity epidemic and failing economy, now is the time to go healthier and cheaper by bringing your own lunch to school or work. Avoid brown bag blues by upgrading to containers with better design and more style. The following are a few lunch boxes and accessories ...
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Whitney said:
A next generation SPORK -- awesome
DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters (4)
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The micro-messaging service Twitter tonight suspended the accounts of users don_draper and peggyolson. If those names sound familiar, you’re probably a fan of the hit AMC show Mad Men. Those two Twitter users take their names from two of the main characters on the show, and over the past several weeks had been providing updates, mostly in character from what I could tell. Perhaps that is what Twitter didn’t like about the accounts: They weren’t ...
China Fired Rockets to Stop Olympic Rain (6)
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No doubt, the Beijing Olympics were full of one surprise after another. Here’s one final step to seal the package: The nation used “weather modification technology” to try to keep rain away for the ceremonies, a Chinese news agency is reporting. Government scientists apparently fired nearly 250 rockets full of a “rain dispersal” chemical into the clouds prior to Sunday’s closing event. They used a combination of planes and ground-based launching devices to do the ...
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Adam said:
Hahaha, this reminds me of the classic stats textbook example of "cloud seeding". Long story short: no studies show a statistically significant effect, but people keep insisting it works anyway.
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Bill Shakes said:
sorry had to..
White People in the News - Political Prisoner Edition (12)
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Photo by Jeff Deck Men banned from national parks after vandalism. From The Boston Globe, August 22, 2008. Summary: Two white people from the Somerville, MA created an organization called “TEAL: Typo Eradication Advancement League,” and vowed to travel across the country fixing typos. This is especially interesting since every other time two late 20s white males have traveled across the country it has been to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums. All was ...
At: Split ReasonFor: US$19.95 (2)
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At: Split ReasonFor: US$19.95
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Sermed said:
Awesome. I never was very good at that part of the game. It was always 2 stars and then a damn mushroom
How Did We Exist Without CNN Mobile? (3)
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It’s hard to imagine the primitive world of, say, 2000, when we didn’t have “smart phones” with web browsers and breaking news updates from CNN about a motherfucking horse in a ditch somewhere. Besides, Fox News broke this breaking story a year and a half ago. Fuck you, CNN Mobile. (Thanks, “Zach E.,” for sharing.)
E. Coli: FDA Will Allow Spinach, Lettuce To Be Irradiated [Poll] (4)
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For the first time ever, the FDA is going to allow manufacturers to irradiate produce at levels that can kill bacteria that causes food-borne illness, says the New York Times. The produce in question, spinach and iceberg lettuce, have, in recent years, been linked to widespread outbreaks of serious illnesses. From the New York Times: Advocates for food safety condemned the agency’s decision and asserted that irradiation could lower nutritional value, create unsafe chemicals and ...
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Adam said:
Damn, this kind of thing pisses me off. Instead of dealing with the problem, they just want to treat the symptoms, and thereby make an even crappier (literally!) product.
Obama Calls Failed VP Candidates To Officially Neg Them (1)
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That Barack Obama, he’s such a gentleman! Not only does he carry his own luggage when he gets off a plane, he also personally calls the people who will not be his running mates to say, “Sorry bro you are not the one.” (He says “bro” every time because his running mate will be Hillary Clinton.) So uh who did he call last night with this tragic news? Nobody is saying, of course. Sen. Barack ...
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Adam said:
Sharing for the "neg" reference for Meredith. Plus, anyone who doesn't enjoy a picture of the Montauk Monster engaging in a "terrorist fist jab" with Obama just doesn't have a sense of humor.
YouTube's Steve Chen decorating a penthouse downtown [Rumormonger] (4)
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Is Google's Marissa Mayer getting a coworker for a neighbor? Word on the tipline is that YouTube cofounder Steve Chen is putting together a high-tech bachelor pad: A friend who's a contractor says Steve Chen is building a tech-heavy penthouse on the top floor of the Ritz-Carlton. Lots of video screens and stuff. That's all I know. I'm just guessing that this isn't in the neoclassical Ritz-Carlton hotel on Nob Hill, but in the residential ...
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Adam said:
I hate people with more money than me...
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Forrest said:
Good for Steve, but that location isn't the greatest. I always thought the Ritz condos would be much better placed in the Jackson Square area...
Ads are the new online tip jar (81)
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"I never click on ads." It's almost a badge of honor to say that. The subtext is, "I'm too smart/busy to waste my time doing that," or perhaps, "I don't want someone to sell my attention." But the real effect is that you're starving great content. I can say this because there are no ads here but, If you like what you're reading, click an ad to say thanks. Pretty simple, but not an accepted ...
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skeggsjp said:
I like Seth's perspective on this.
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exactaBob said:
That's an idea worth spreading.
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Riaz said:
not convinced by this - both that it will happen and that it happening is a good thing. For it to be good, people would have to click through and pay attention to the website they arrive at so that conversions increase. Otherwise, marketers will still pay the same amount to the publisher for the higher click throughs.
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Lorraine said:
Interesting concept, but is it fair to the advertiser if I have no interest in your product but click anyway to "tip" a good writer?
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Adam said:
Wrong, wrong, WRONG. If you click on an ad with no real interest in the thing being sold, you devalue ad clicks on the site you were "thanking" with an ad click. That's much more harmful to the site than adopting a policy of never clicking on ads. Of course, I advocate a middle ground :) Click on stuff that catches your attention, ad or not.
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Mrs S said:
Simple - but effective
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billspaced said:
Glad Seth said it. I've been thinking it for a while now, and have even said it a few times before, but Godin's saying it carries clout!
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Eban_C said:
Seth is the reason in the world of talking head echo chamber. He nails it more often than not.
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Stormy Shippy said:
One of the few times I don't agree at all with Godin. You don't click on ads out of generosity.
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manda said:
interesting idea, as long as it doesn't lead to more ads...
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Satyajeet said:
This is exactly the problem with the models of online advertising though!
Bigfoot Duo’s New Discovery: A Lawsuit Against Them (4)
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The two goons who wasted the world’s time by claiming they’d found Bigfoot are now finding themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit. Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer went the full nine yards with a news conference, DNA tests (that showed nothing), and all sorts of empty promises last week. Of course, it was all a hoax — and, as many had initially suspected, the creature was no more than a frozen Halloween costume ...
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Adam said:
They've been framed! Its a setup! Bigfoot 4evR!
Google's Krispy Kreme bacon cheeseburger [Caption Contest] (7)
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Not sure how Googlers get much world-changing innovation done when the itis strikes after employees at the New York office lunch on a "Luther burger" from the Hemispheres cafe. But apparently it's quite popular. Think you're so funny? Suggest a better caption and we'll make our favorite the new title. Yesterday's winner, by popular acclaim, was seanpercival for "I'm feeling lucky." (Photo by satanslaundromat)
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Saket said:
Forget "original glazed"! we gotta do a dozen of THESE
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Adam said:
This really has been served at the Google NYC cafe at least twice.
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Jeff said:
why the he'll don't they have this in mountain view?
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Parker said:
want one!
Alien Bikes (11)
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There's two different camps in cycling. The first seeks out every new, high-tech toy they can attach to their carbon fiber frame, while the other takes the opposite approach, stripping off anything that's not vital to its performance. These fixed-gear purists shun derailleurs, brakes and anything else that obscures the clean geometry of the bicycle frame. The latter group is the target audience of Alien Bikes. Based out of Tjøme, Norway, Alien is essentially a ...
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Adam said:
Um, no. There is an additional camp. Its the camp that uses bikes for regular old transportation, and therefore seeks cost-effective utility. I am in this camp. It is refreshingly inexpensive and irony-free.
Say goodbye to suburbia: California moves to cut urban sprawl » VentureBeat (7)
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I hate Los Angeles. If you live there and love it, my apologies, but I’m hardly alone. If its movie business is what LA is known best for, its toxic combination of sprawl, smog and blighted urban landscape certainly comes in second. But there’s hope yet for the city, as well as the conservation movement in California, if a new bill passes today, as it is expected to do.The problem for many years has been ...
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bhc3 said:
"New state funding would thus go toward funding smart development of roads, bus systems and more in existing areas over building out new communities, hamstringing endless urban expansion." YES!
What is the deal…with Seinfeld as a pitchman for Microsoft? » VentureBeat (4)
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I can hear it now: What is the deal with Apple? They don’t sell Apples. Why call themselves that? … Yes, ladies and gentleman, Jerry Seinfeld is Microsoft’s new pitchman. Microsoft is still being very secretive about its new $300 million advertising campaign that it plans to unleash shortly, but Seinfeld will play a key role in it, the Wall Street Journal has learned. He apparently will appear in commercials alongside the recently retired (but ...
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Adam said:
Good luck with all that
Mormons said to make bid for Facebook [Rumormonger] (8)
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Brooklynite Zack Klein claims that "an employee close to the deal" — translation: somebody was drunk — told him the church San Franciscans love to hate "made an unsolicited bid to acquire Facebook." The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was estimated in 1997 to have $25 to $30 billion in assets and a $5 billion annual revenue stream, making a Facebook buy-in a possibility. True? Maybe. Fodder for lunch discussion all over the ...
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Mitch said:
This is pretty funny. Maybe this will replace the Stake/Ward membership section on lds.org. :)
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Adam said:
Oh, man I hope this is true. I'm so glad I never signed up with Facebook.
Black Maple Hill Small Batch Bourbon (3)
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Aged for an average of eight years, Black Maple Hill Small Batch Bourbon is bottled in small batches straight from Heaven Hill Distillery oak casks in Bardston, Kentucky. The technique and the fact that Heaven Hill is the largest, independent family-owned distillery in the state makes for an especially rare find of superior quality and taste. In spite of its affordable price, Black Maple Hill is a nicely smooth bourbon. A 95-proof liquor, it expectedly ...
