Preference Personnelle
Now I'm glad I waited. Here's the breakdown:
1. A
Suicide Girls member (not one of the models) says that their favorite games include
Mario and
Zelda.
2. SG admin gets
form letter from a
Nintendo attorney.
3. The form letter is
very widely publicized (in an Internet sense of the words, anyway).
4.
Nintendo apologizes, even offering a free system and game (to steal a joke from about a million people, make mine Virtual Boy
Panic Bomber and a
64DD).
5. Apology is
widely publicized
(in an Internet sense of the words, anyway).
So how's that for a non-story?
Also, Slate staff
disclose who they're voting for and why.
These folks have
video clips--Ashlee Simpson, Jon Stewart, they've got it all.
Here's some dubious FOAF
inside scoop. Also, remember when the Bush twins were
alleged to have smoked pot at some party at Ashton Kutcher's house? No connection--I just don't want people to forget.
You know who I kind of like? Keith Olbermann. Here he is
offering to buy the O'Reilly sex tapes. Here are his
round-by-round presidential debate scores.
Here's
Listen Before You Vote, with, duh, lots of audio. From the
Audible people.
Also,
shoelaces. And a wonderful
sign-ripping expose. I want to find something equally concise, and equally good, about post-Vietnam expectoration. In the meantime, here's the
Mefi thread where I found the link. Also,
crash-test footage,
Tiny Mix Tapes (current front-page news: the black iPod, which I would totally lust after were it not for the U2 connection).
Here's a
Mefi thread about this election and Catholics. Swing vote? And remember how kids (Nickelodeon-viewers, anyway) want Kerry? Well,
teenagers (Channel One viewers, anyway) want Bush.
Oh, and speaking of video clips:
Underground Clips,
Demand Media,
Free Speeches and
OurMedia.
Oh, and
McMonopoly.
“The fact that there [might be] proof that he said ‘certain words’ is really killing me. I’d be lying if I didn’t say it brings a smile to my face. These are words that I say, and this motherf**ker is saying the same words that I say, and is criticizing me?”--Ludacris
Two views of the O'Reilly thing: Ludacris feels a sense of cosmic justice (from
AllHipHop.com), and the reinvigorated Star (via
Gawker) compares the alleged conversations to O'Reilly's alleged
novel.
Here's a
Slashdot interview with Neal Stephenson.
Have you ever said to yourself, "Self, you know what electoral-vote.com needs?
Animated cartograms."? I know I have.
It's not often that sites like Gizmodo give negative reviews. But when they do, it's often a doozy. Good example: the
TV-B-Gone.
Wired seemed to dig it, though. What's a culture-jamming techno-geek to think?
Another
horrifying article about Bush and religion (via
Mefi).
Also, these electoral-vote-calculating whatsits (
PBS,
LA Times) are fun, and shed some light on just how close the thing might wind up being.
And a
short-story contest where I'm eager to read the entrants. And
Karl Rove, that boy-genius-come-crooked-jagov.
Oh, and
that other -filter site has something about the
World Beard and Moustache Championships. Do you think that's something I could get in on? Note also that a lot of these gentlemen belong to 'beard clubs.' I'm going out on a limb here, but what are the chances that these groups' activities consist largely of beer busts, beer blasts, keggers, stein hoists, AA meetings, beer nights... It's wonderful, Marge!
Put me down for '
bullshit.' More to follow.
Edit: Actually, I'm just going to leave it at that. Googling for phrases from the purported email is a good jumping-off point, for people interested in playing Detective Blogosphere themselves.
Also,
Cooking for Engineers. If nothing else, I love their recipe formatting. It reminds me of the grids used for logic problems of the 'If Agnes drives a Buick, then the person who is a Chef does not live in Denver' school.
And, because it's Friday afternoon and I'm a lazy, lazy man, Roger, here are a bunch of Metafilter links presented with bold, dynamic exclamation points in the manner of an alarmist local-news teaser:
Flash! Right-wing phone sex! Hidden drugs! Rising abortion rates! Infighting! Infiltration! (not the
urban-exploration kind) What's the hidden link?
Dominionists! (Not to be confused with
Decepticons,
Infesticons,
Dominicans or
Decemberists)
It's a real boom-time for Michael Jackson parodies. Besides the South Park episode
'The Jeffersons,' there's also the Law & Order: SVU episode '
Sick' (the protagonist runs a toy company, but the parallels are clearly there, especially since NBC promoted it as 'ripped from the headlines,' as is sometimes their wont). The new kid on the block is Eminem's '
Just Lose It' video, which the courageous folks at
BET pulled after Mikejack
complained. Mike's got a long relationship with BET, which is one of the reasons I don't expect the topic to be broached on
The Simpsons any time soon.
Check out the New Voters Project's
Youth Debate page. Bush, Kerry and Nader answer questions posed by the young people. Well, actually, they don't so much answer the questions as they go into vaguely-related sections of their stump speeches. If you're not familiar with this approach, check out tonight's debate.
The Youth Debate page allows visitors to the site to indicate their degree of agreement with the candidates' positions. My favorite question is the one that asks about a time that the candidate changed their opinion on an issue, which Bush declined to answer. If their results are representative, and I'm confident they're not, America's young voters are about equally keen on Sen. K's and Mr. N's positions, and notably less keen on Pres. B's. Actually, maybe that's representative after all.
Via
metafilter, here's a
Slate article about Bush and coded language. Remember that weird aside about
Dred Scott? Yeah.
I'm not going to forward you any email, so here's a very good
e-Skeptic article about science and the Bush administration. As if you need another reason to vote against the guy.
I seem to recall plugging
electoral-vote.com recently. But, as noted in this Mefi
discussion, they're not as timely as they used to be. Here are
some other possibilities for the true poll heads.
Now this is an
article about Bush I can sink my teeth into. Something for the cult-studs-and-crit-theory types, via
Mefi, where else.
Just in case you haven't heard this story already: So last night, at the vice presidential debate,
Dick Cheney responded to some of
John Edwards' critique of his
Halliburton profiteering by plugging
factcheck.com. Small problem: he meant to say
factcheck.org. Bigger problem: the owners of factcheck.com have redirected traffic to
George Soros' site. Soros is, among other things, a wealthy financier and the author of
The Bubble of American Supremacy: The Costs of Bush's War in Iraq (it's a book--the link's to an article of the same name).
Oops.
My online pal Chelsea's short film, 'The Unhappy Medium,' is available for download at
archive.org.
My pal Ashley keeps plugging
Two Faces of Bush.
B(E).
It's some
Anheuser-Busch product, a beer with caffeine and ginseng and whatnot. Now, I like a coffee brew as much as the next guy, and I'm still lamenting the long-defunct
Red Hook Double Black Stout, but this is just ridiculous.
If NPR is any indication, it's pronounced 'B to the E,' which reminds me, inexplicably, of the
closing theme to that Zorro movie, y'know, in the beginning of some
Simpsons episode.
Here's Slashdot
coverage.
Closing all these open tabs:
Mefi mentions
interlocking TV
universes. Snazzy stuff. I imagine both L and N being entertained by this kinda thing.
PocketPC book database
BookLib. I want something similar, which'll keep video games and DVDs too, and perhaps handle some, like, list of things I'd like to buy while it's at it. I'm also looking for something to use my PocketPC to control Winamp over a wireless network.
Vinyl is very pretty, but also incredibly prone to inexplicable crashes when adding files to its database.
Browseamp,
WWWamp and
Webamp are possibilities I've yet to look much into. I used to use
SnowCrash for pretty similar purposes. The thing is, though, that everything I've mentioned except for Vinyl run as a webpage, instead of a program. The latter is a lot more aesthetically pleasing on the PocketPC.
Via Mefi, some great
Fox News stuff:
manufactured Kerry quotes (from Carl Cameron, the guy who gets called out in Outfoxed for being buddy-buddy with Bush. Why is he even assigned to cover Kerry?) and
half-ass apology;
negative Kerry coverage;
Communists for Kerry (something like Billionaires for Bush, except that FNC treated these folks seriously) interview;
Greta Van Susteren (Murdoch calls her a liberal), plastic surgery and Scientology.
Here's an old-time
browser emulator.
Also, I just saw a Diet Coke commercial with a Lyrics Born song in it. At least it's not St. Ides, right?
Debate links: some from
mediamatters.org, and from this
Metafilter thread, which is absolutely chockablock with worthwhile links. I'm not even including the one where
James Stockdale explains 'Who am I? Why am I here?' Okay,
yeah I am.
But here's
Tavis Smiley commentator Connie 'not to be confused' Rice's
Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates. And here's a recent
Bill Moyers transcript. I've gushed before about
C-SPAN's coverage of this election, so let me just say here that when wildly
underfunded public broadcasters do a better job reporting than
megaconglomerates with
virtually unlimited resources, well, you don't need a dead canary to tell that something's seriously wrong.
And some
FAIR articles:
The Compromised Commission on Presidential Debates, and
Presidential Debates Are Duopoly by Design. And, from
opendebates.org, here is the redundantly-titled
Deterring Democracy: How the Commission on Presidential Debates Undermines Democracy. Ooh, and, lest I forget, the 32-page Memorandum of Understanding (on
Kerry and
Bush's sites) and the Committee on Presidential Debates list of '
national sponsors.'
Ooh, and a
transcript.
