2008

May

Slate: The United States can't afford to snub...

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, who arrived in the earthquake region on Monday night, described the...

Steven Spielberg is postponing his Aaron...

Best sketch from SNL last night: It’s a Match.

Because Greg is posting about his...

All I remember from last night’s was having to deal with some refrigerator that had two sets...

“You can pretty much bet all you own that I would never leave...”
— Alec Baldwin, quoted by...

Yeah, this is usually a good sign.

“After writing a spec script for “The Simpsons,”...”
— Variety. Now there’s a...

The White House Has Got Mail Um, It Had Mail

Just plain awesome.

I can’t even imagine what it would be like to see this...

This is immediately outside my office. Chaos Closes Comm....

“A light cigarette is like a regular one with a pinhole in...”
— David Sedaris, in his New...

Is IKEA the World’s Largest Charity?

Right on: the Congressional Democrats are...

Ridership on the MBTA surged 6.2 percent in...

“A rebellious 20-year-old with a chip on his shoulder and...”
— Press kit description of Mutt...

“Pictured, an Italian Vanity Fair spread featuring a...”
— Seth from Defamer, in...

The Wall Street Journal is apparently making their drawings...

“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified...”
— Edward Abbey

Matt Cutts saw a “Newspaper of the Future” at...

This issue of GQ is just chock-full of great stuff (though...

Look: we basked in Cold War and immediate...

“Hillary Clinton picked a horse named Eight Belles to win the...”
— Your heavy-handed political...

'IRON MAN' IS A ROCKETMAN: SOARS FOR $100...

Six Things I Don’t Think About Anymore

I don't watch (or like) Lost, but I love some...

This is how Obama’s winning votes in the heartland:...

Reporter Curses Out Sports Blogger --...

Thomas L. Friedman lays out our crazy energy...

Apr

Life expectancy in Zimbabwe has dropped below...

“A great New York sandwich is large; it contains multitudes.”
— A random Whitman reference in...

“The problem with the easy way out is that it has already...”
— One of ‘Murphy’s...

Those Pentagon-sponsored pundits that the...

Prince doing ‘Creep’ at Coachella.

An awesome sign, featured in milan design week 2008.

“Contract year. I’m stealing bases.”
— Manny Ramirez, after stealing...

From New York Times reporter Barry Bearak’s account of being arrested in Zimbabwe for...

The New York Times' Hidden Hand On Oil's...

YES. An offseason, draft version of...

Neatorama does a roundup of 'spite houses'

Kissing Suzy Kolber's mock drafts can be hit...

Will Wright's "Spore" character creator to...

Josh and I have been talking about how great the NYTimes...

Brett Favre will be on the cover of Madden 09. I wonder if...

Just a year after an insanely hyped launch,...

Anti-alcoholism Soviet Propaganda (via Crestock.com)

Not only is it awesome that Frank Thomas is...

Cool NYC street art, via Gothamist.

This week’s Weekly Dig cover, in honor of ROFLCon.

“Instead, desire (as opposed to whim, caprice, lust or...”
— David Barringer, in his...

Anything involving Will Ferrell makes me laugh. ...

This op-ed on the death penalty and botched...

Good Newsweek article on Rupert Murdoch's...

“My most treasured possession is the urn containing the ashes...”
— David Mamet

“Anyone but Carson Daly or Jimmy Fallon.”
— Random blogger quoted by...

Now here's a reason to stay in Massachusetts...

There's going to be a musical based on the...

Good to know: the Hebrew word for 'nerd' is...

Manolo for the Man points me towards some Walt Whitman that helps explain my New York inclinations:...

John McCain's campaign font is the same as...

Just because it's on the front page of...

Y’all Wanna Donate To Ah Soft-Bawl Teem?

Depressing article of the day: "Nude charity...

Favorite band name of the day: Times New Viking

“Muse are the kind of act that rarely serves as an endpoint...”
— Ian Cohen’s Pitchfork...

Billy Bragg's "A New England" - watch the...

There is nothing better than Stop Making Sense.

Embarrassed I'm Surprised

For Greggy: Dining aboard the Titanic, 96...

This Six Year Old sketch from the Jonah Hill SNL is so great. Also, Hulu, so great.

“Google me this, butthead, on your caveman computer”
— Esquire’s monthly...

“Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay”
— The new six-word motto for the...

Lott: ‘I haven’t paid for lunch in 30...

“When a can of cheap peas says “Pea Color and Size May...”
— Dan Liebert’s Pet...

Michael Chabon wrote a draft of Spider-Man 2,...

FLAG FLAG FLAG FLAG FLAG. The best part of John...

“As it becomes clear that a constant stream of blog posts and...”
— David Brooks, New York Times

Hmm

[It’s a version of Bishop Berkeley’s esse est percipi – to be is to be perceived. When a rabbit...

“It’s because The Office is how America sees work, while 30...”
— Adam Sternbergh in Vulture

“vampire weekend”
— Adam Brookland. Draw your own...

File under Brilliant Ideas: tear-and-keep wine labels. (via...

My new habit of reading the Times' Op-Ed page...

This means something: I just clicked “Read Later” on an blog post titled “The Most...

Not to overly self promote, but I’m particularly proud...

Gen. Petraeus Rocks The Wii Golf

Chinese search engine Baidu threw this Obama endorsement on...

The best font ever!

“The brain is not a Reality-Recorder. There is no perfect...”
— Errol Morris, debating...

Now THIS is why I read The Sandbox: SEMPER GUMBY.

“Winston Churchill once said, “Your eyes are the...”
— Christopher Walken as the...

I gotta have these shirts.

Paul Rand is so goddamn good. 1960 IBM Annual Report, from...

Please, sit a spell, and learn all about the...

In Russia Even President-Elect Use Smuggled...

I need to start handing these out.

Candy Chang, who might be my new favorite...

Damn, that’s clever. FLX - The Squeezable USB-Drive,...

“Florida teens also believe that smoking marijuana will...”
— Sadly, not The Onion, but...

“He said even if someone is loitering instead of walking down...”
— Hooray for the Boston...

“Macedonia needs a new and exciting name, like “Barack...”
— Sara K. Smith in Wonkette

“Similarly, it can be counterproductive to work toward...”
— “Tighten Your Belt,...

The Rolling Stones doing a Rice Krispies ad. Found by the New Yorker.

This one's for Greg: Why do people say some...

Cool article on designing restaurant logos...

Man plans to sell his entire life on eBay...

“Gravel is the new Shatner” - Josh Gee.

I can’t tell which part of this dumb comment is the...

Jeff: i can't believe hillary made a bowling crack
Josh: yeah
that whole campaign
is full of people who stole your lunch money
or
wish they had been the kids that stole your lunch money

The new coinage for the UK revealed. Incredibly cool. (via...

StartupWear: Chief _________ Officer. I love it.

Mar

(John) Calvin and (Thomas) Hobbes

“I never let Mondale forget that Massachusetts has four more...”
— George McGovern, referencing...

“A letter can be just an ordinary messenger, or it can be the...”
— Bud Kettler, inventor of the...

Least funny hilarious headline: "Hackers...

(via Neatorama)

“Matthew Picton creates delicate sculptures depicting...

Daily Show's Stewart 'Quietly...

The cost of raising a child in the United...

The risk for Apple iPhone (and BlackBerry)...

They did it twice.

A Variety editor leaves in some notes from the writer. ...

Arianna Bests Drudge?

The trailer for Standard Operating Procedure,...

I don't know why the audacity of this...

HELEN THOMAS: The American people are being asked to die and pay for this. And you’re saying they have no say in this war?
PERINO: No, I didn’t say that Helen. But Helen, this president was elected…
THOMAS: But it amounts to it. You’re saying we have no input at all.
PERINO: You had input. The American people have input every four years, and that’s the way our system is set up.

Amazing watch that I must have with a Méliès-style moon face...

“If government isn’t personal, then what the hell is...”
— Chris Langham as Hugh Abbot in...

A Big Lead writer points out that only two of the nine ESPN...

“We’ve got Brimley!”
— Catchphrase on the McCain...

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable...”
— Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

This is mildly upsetting: there are Teen Iron...

This is why I will never move to a red...

Politics as usual! instead of distancing himself from the insanity, he insisted on chewing out of...

In other Obama news, DMX doesn't know who he...

“I love this country. I don’t remember loving it or...”
— Andrew Sullivan

“What we need in the United States is not division; what we...”
— Robert F. Kennedy

Obama’s speech today was simply amazing, and possibly the best and most important I’ve...

If I were a girl, I’d wear the crap out of this...

“Our competition is not so much other television shows as it...”
— Lorne Michaels, from last...

People often ask me what it’s like working in web design. Well, our daily routine looks a lot...

NYTimes op-ed: "Bobby on Parade"

"Which is the one with all the hookers and...

The Best Way To Display News Online: Linear...