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There are so many!

I got about a half-dozen tweets about this, but the more interesting thing discovery is that there are people still watching the Simpsons. Seriously? That show stopped being funny like 10 years ago.

It's innovative, it's pragmatic, and it's clever -- getting defense to transfer some of its huge budget over to Hillary's new State department to create a civilian nation-building force. My god it's good to have adults in charge again.

Once again, a dumb idea. Sigh. Must we go through this again?

You can order them online! Oh noes!

This guy says no, and is astonishingly pessimistic about the market in general -- he thinks the Dow will bottom out at 2500.

When it first launches you'll be like "what the hell is going on?" Then, once you solve the first puzzle, you will gasp and laugh at the sheer beauty of what's going on. What an awesome idea for a game. [via @fonziewonzie]

I'm not sure I buy their logic. Online advertising, while effective, is not magical. It will contract, as all advertising does, very sharply in a recession. Search advertising is very well targeted, so it will be quite robust, but display advertising is going to nosedive.

Auto-detects your location based on IP, too.

This was clever.

.update { border: 3px solid #55f; padding: 0.7em; margin-bottom: 1em; } Update: Welcome, hackers! You can now buy this table as a super-cute poster! Thanks to Nimbus for turning this around so fast :-) So at lunch today myself, Isaac and a bunch of o

isaac_schlueter: Apparently Obama met Leonard Nimoy once and gave him the Vulcan greeting. I did not know this. Seldo: Obama is a huge nerd. S: He collects Spider-Man comics. I: yeah. spider man is totally a geek's super hero S: He really is. I: i mean

Were The World Mine (more info on Wikipedia) is a new movie from Speak Productions and it's pretty much my idea of a perfect movie: a musical based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream about a hot gay boy who discovers a potion that can turn anybody

Currently on Hulu, I am forced to watch -- 3 times per every half hour -- an ad for a product called Regenerist Eye Derma-Pod Anti-Aging Triple Response System. In addition to the reality-warping product name, it comes with this mind-blowing copy: Regen

I was and am passionately against California's proposition 8, an unprecedented rearguard action on the part of religious conservatives to strip the rights of marriage granted by California's constitution. It is heartbreaking, and unfair, and a travesty. B

The Obama administration has announced a national CTO position and geeks across the line are lining up to suggest what the CTO's priorities should be. The idea of a national CTO position is one of my favourite parts of Obama's platform, so here's my own w

A couple of recent incidents in the wake of Obama's election have left me wondering just what the hell is wrong with Republicans. Consider this one, talking about Obama's recent "gaffes": Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined w

If you live in San Francisco and you are applying for renter's insurance, the insurance form will ask you how far your house is from a fire hydrant. It turns out there's no really easy way of working this out. If you search for fire station, you get one o

Yes. Oh hell yes.

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