Crooks and Liars:
Media Matters points out how conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage like to use rape metaphors when discussing progressives or progressive policies. Right-wing media are very quick to (Read More)
Boing Boing:
A company called Volomedia just got the US Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to patent podcasting. Say what? The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting. Snip:The Volomedia patent covers "a method for providing (Read More)
Boing Boing:
"The news here is not that people are irrational, giving too much credence to the dramatic and the local and the short-term (that's not news), but that people have added a veneer of scientific rationality to their irrational (Read More)
Huffington Post:
George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been one success after another.But the Israel-Palestine conflict tends to be a career destroyer. Former Sec (Read More)
Gawker:
The jokes at NBC's expense weren't very insidery this week, but as usual 30 Rock spent half the episode dissing their home network. Here's what happens when you make Tina & Co. play along with your dumb corporate green initia (Read More)
Jalopnik:
Here at Jalopnik World Headquarters, we're pretty familiar with stupid. Desperation breeds bad ideas, and if you love speed, chances are you've made your share of moronic calls. What's the dumbest thing you've done to make a (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Microsoft recently banned a whole lot of modded consoles. Was it to prevent piracy, or was it a conspiracy? A new lawsuit is positing the latter theory. Here's what Texas-based law firm AbingtonIP says to justify their new su (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Hollywood filmmakers like their women like they like their coffee: shrill, stupid and submissive. And usually not black.As evidence, all you need to do is look at the "romantic" movies which are targeted toward women, yet som (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Image via the GuardianAn ad by Plane Stupid, an anti-airplane pollution advocacy group, is stirring some serious controversy in the UK and around the blogosphere. In a graphic TV ad designed to reveal the massive emissions th (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
You all know me, I’m not a judgmental kind of guy. But on some rare occasions I DO form strong opinions, and gosh darn it, if I’m not careful I’m afraid I’ll go after somebody with this pickle fork I’m holding. What do I see (Read More)
Jalopnik:
There once was an english white viper, that wasn't going to get any riper. Nice Price or Crack Pipe wonders if you should pluck it, or instead should you just walk away and say. . . Okay, let's all get together here and have (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Ricky Hatton is about to try to shed four stone and have one fight too manySo, after hibernating since May, Ricky Hatton is coming back. He's going to put down the bacon butty and rip four stones off that small frame to get i (Read More)
guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Comment & debate:
In a country where brutal civil war raged just two decades ago, surprisingly little anger remains todayIt's hard to imagine a more tranquil place than Gaza: farmers taking their produce to market, women and children standing (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Bloody deaths of CGI polar bears in Plane Stupid ad designed to highlight carbon impact of air travelAirline pollution activists Plane Stupid are on a collision course with the advertising regulator after launching a graphic (Read More)
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(Can’t see the video? Then try watching it at Work Happy Now – The Hard, The Fun and The Beautiful – Red Skin Edition)Where we are free to talk about the hard, the fun, and the beautiful of our work week.Dealing with negative (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Advert for climate change activists in which polar bears are seen falling from the skies to illustrate the level of greenhouse gases created by air flights. Created by ad agency MotherMark Sweney
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Gizmodo:
Most serious gamers might seem easy to buy for at first: games! But they probably are buying most games they really want right when they're released. So you've got to be a bit more creative than that. BTW, if you hate the gal (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
He used to be Beetlejuice and Batman. Now Michael Keaton is a first-time director and a contented manMichael Keaton is standing in the middle of his London hotel room, transfixed by the widescreen television before him. He ho (Read More)
Gawker:
She's made more bombs than the Krupp Arms Works and yet Hollywood keeps giving her the keys to its kingdom. This weekend, Sandra Bullock is back again in The Blind Side. When she burst into public consciousness, stealing the (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin has said a lot of stupid things since entering the national stage last year, but this, from her interview with Barbara Walters, is right up there with the stupidest of them all:I disagree with the Obama administra (Read More)