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Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Mclovin’ Fund

“The Mclovin’ Fund” with Kristen Bell and Christopher Mintz-Plasse on FunnyOrDie.com
On Funny Or Die

A Little Earth Day Love

My friend Nori is getting an MBA specializing in sustainable management / environmental economics. She’s got an assignment in honor of Earth Day to get people to calculate their personal CO2 emissions. So, if you’d be so kind as to help her out, that would be awesome. You won’t have to buy […]

A Variety of Stories on That Theme

Cat and Girl

Jon Stewart on Barack Obama being called “elitist”

Doesn’t elite mean good? Is that not something we’re looking for in a president anymore? … The job you’re applying for — if you get it, and it goes well, they might carve your head into a mountain. If you don’t actually think you are better than us, then what the f@*k are you doing? […]

Obama’s Touch of Class

You know, maybe a few people should feel bitter.
If Barack Obama or anyone else really cares to know what I think, I will simplify it all down to this. The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this […]

“‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett”

“Brilliant” - Phil Haack
“A surreal nightmare” - Phil Haack
“In a confrontation reminiscent of another Charlie (Kaufman) facing down his twin brother in Adaptation, this Charlie takes on his most challenging guest ever: Charlie Rose. The topic — the future of technology — is apt, considering how we found this Web gem hiding in the tall […]

I Hope This is Never Me

<3 Married To The Sea

How Clinton and Obama could run together and take turns being president.

Professor Amar (no, the other one) on how it’s Constitutionally permissive to have a true joint presidency. Neat idea that I can never see working.
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FBI Caused Delay in Terror Case Ahead of Senate Testimony

Counterterrorism officials in FBI headquarters slowed an investigation into a possible conspirator in the 2005 London bombings by forcing a field agent to return documents acquired from a U.S. university. Why? Because the agent received the documents through a lawful subpoena, while headquarters wanted him to demand the records under the USA Patriot Act, using […]

BarBri Books Put to Good Use

big pic and some commentary

The Secret Language of Cocktails

Modern Drunkard magazine on those I drink:

Gimlet
Something about your personality makes otherwise normal people use words like “bounder” and “cad.”
Manhattan
You’re witty, sophisticated, and not at all jealous that the oafs pounding down Jell-O shots at the other end of the bar are getting all the best trim.
Old Fashioned
Every significant event in your life has taken […]

Cereal Mascot Reunion

It’s kind of about the strange, uncomfortable feeling of reuniting with old friends only to find that the magic just isn’t there anymore - and in turn, about the melancholy “nothing will ever be as good as it used to be” type of nostalgia, of which I am increasingly fond. And of course, a tribute […]

On Chicken

Sometimes I feel weird about eating most meats. I sometimes deliberately avoid thinking about the fact that I’m eating something that I could potentially be hugging. That does not apply to chickens. Chickens are soul-less, horrid beasties on which no mercy should ever be even contemplated. NONE.
—Jeffrey Rowland

Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind

Willpower in one area (like dieting) is weakened by its use in other areas (like studying), but if you keep at it, you increase your overall supply - cool!

YHTBTR

Awesome web game - kinda hard, but totally worth it to win. The music is pretty cool, too.

Awesome Muppet Video


Guess who’s semi-anonymously famous?

That’s right, me.

I heart Merlin Mann

Please be aware that today’s protests will push the Bay Area Shrillness Level to “Fucking Unbearable.” Close windows, and shelter in place.
on twitter

Mets management concedes song contest was Rickrolled

The Amazins’ management conceded that an official poll that crowned Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” as the team’s singalong winner was duped by an effort to bombard their contest with spam. So despite 5 million votes, team officials say they it’s “highly unlikely” the cheesy 1980s song will be declared victor. Or ever be […]

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