September 2008
McCain Buckles to Far Right... Wanted to Pick... →
For weeks, advisers close to the campaign said, McCain had wanted to name as his running mate his good friend Senator Joe Lieberman. But by the end of last weekend, the outrage from Christian…
GOP in 2004: John Edwards Too Inexperienced To Be... →
In 2004, Mitt Romney, President Bush, and the RNC blasted John Edwards as being too inexperienced to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, despite nearly six years in the US Senate. In 2008, all…
“Early on in the conversation before Palin started to crack up, Lester referred...”
– Palin Laughs As Opponent Is Called “Bitch,” “Cancer,” Mocked For Her Weight (AUDIO)
August 2008
Tigh / Roslin 2008! →
What an ingenious spoof.
Sarah Palin: Hillary Clinton is a whiner →
Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in Alaska during a political scandal that threatened to unseat…
Paul Begala: Is McCain out of his mind? →
“For months, the McCainiacs have said they will run on his judgment and experience. In his first presidential decision, John McCain has shown he is willing to endanger his country, potentially…
Palin denies global warming is man-made →
In an interview with Newsmax today, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) newly minted running mate — was asked for her “take on global warming and how is it affecting our country.”…
McCain's Selection of Palin as VP is the Epitome... →
It is hard to think of a more cynical and contemptuous political act this year than John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. Having served as governor of Alaska…
McCain Didn't Even Know Palin Before Picking Her... →
John McCain had only met Sarah Palin once or twice before selecting her to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Also, earlier today McCain’s campaign chairman Sen. Lindsay Graham admitted that he…
Scholars question Palin credentials →
Presidential scholars say she appears to be the least experienced, least credentialed person to join a major-party ticket in the modern era.
Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A →
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Wow, finally Arrington does something useful. I’d buy this in a heartbeat.
Update on the TechCrunch Tablet: A humble beginning. Prototype A has been built. It’s in a…
“Palin has no experience in national office. Before becoming governor in December...”
– Scholars question Palin credentials - Fred Barbash and David Mark - Politico.com
10 Things to Know and Hate About Metered Broadband →
Since we’re getting in a huff over Comcast’s 250 GB cap, we thought it would be helpful to lay out why capping broadband is a bad idea today and a worse one for tomorrow, how it can benefit…
James Powderly's story of his Beijing detention →
James Powderly, New Yorker and founder of the Graffiti Research Lab, was one of several Americans detained in China earlier this month for attempting to display protest messages related to Tibet…
QuickPwn Tools Released For Firmware 2.0.2 on... →
Just a few days after the Dev Team released its jailbreak tool for the 2.0.2 firmware to Mac users, WinPwn 2.5 and the QuickPwn Tool for Mac have both appeared at about the same time, offering…
“Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was...”
– The Associated Press: Obama’s speech seen by 38 million viewers
“How will this cynicism play with American voters? It is insulting to women to...”
– Linda Bergthold: The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain
“Incredibly stunning to say the least, yet even on reasonably practical...”
– Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign...”
– Sarah Palin: Dems Pounce On McCain Pick
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time -... →
Fucking aye. McCain managed to choose the one person in the country with less experience than Obama.
Android Developer Challenge I winners — nary a big... →
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I think the juggernaut of the Apple Store is grossly overstated. I’ve not found a really useful utility app on there, least of all none as useful as these early tries for…
Android Developer Challenge winners announced →
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Google has wrapped up judging on its very first Android Developer Challenge, and some twenty dev shops (or in some cases, individual developers)…
I'm glad somebody's saying it. Old Man McCain is... →
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Comcast's 250GB Data Caps Now Official,... →
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Oh fuck. Please don’t do this Time Warner!
Bad news for Comcast folks—the 250GB caps that were once rumored are now officially official and will start October 1 for…
Could U.S. become net exporter of gasoline? →
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Wouldn’t this be the funniest thing to happen to the US in a long time?
Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Etc., Green
A number of factors are conspiring to…
McCain's Prickly TIME Interview - TIME →
I think the interview delayed McCain from going to the early bird special at Carrows, hence the anger.
Bloomberg News Accidentally Publishes Draft of... →
Note to Bloomberg News employees: when you’re in the system updating your draft of Steve Jobs’s obituary, do NOT press publish. That, though, is exactly what happened late last night, as…
BuddyPress » A Wordpress MU Based Social Network... →
Iconic Noodle Celebrates 50th Anniversary : NPR →
R.I.P Ramen Man
Goatse on BBC - CollegeHumor video →
No way. They got Goatse on the BBC. Amazing.
The Most (un)American Icons
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Have you seen the recent Budweiser “Great American Lager” commercials? You know, the ones that are oozing with everything American – football, tailgating, the Statue of Liberty, riding motorcycles, playing in a garage band, and, of course, a fat slice of apple pie. They’re trying to remind me that their All American beer is still All American. But is it? I’m pretty sure by now we all...
Guitar Praise: Guitar Hero Minus the Sex, Drugs... →
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Boo, no Faith+1 tracks? lame.
When you siphon the antiestablishmentism out of rock ‘n roll, you get one of two things—Christian rock or The Jonas Brothers. Neither is…
Oddly Racist Commercial from TubularGoldmine →
Wow.
Video: Joker's Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe... →
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Awesome.
Still wondering how the fatalities in Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe will work what with DC’s heroes being the polar opposite of MK’s homicidal pugilists?…
How Google Earth Helped Win A Gold Medal →
Google Earth is getting a nice plug from Olympic Gold Medal cyclist Kristin Armstrong. When she did her time trials in December, 2007 in China, she took along her husband’s GPS unit to capture the…
BREAKING: Harriet Miers Must Testify, Judge Says →
A federal judge denied the White House’s last-ditch attempt block a former aide from testifying before Congress as part of the investigation into the U.S. Attorney scandal. “If the government is…
● Not so middle management →
Joel Spolsky, popular tech writer and founder of Fog Creek Software, has an article in the September 2008 issue of Inc. called How Hard Could It Be: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers. In it,…
Introducing the Chinese to fortune cookies →
from the full article, “they always think it’s contamination of some sort” [via]
100 things author dies →
The author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die is dead at the age of 47. I hope he made it through them all. Update: I missed this bit of the article: Freeman’s relatives said he visited about…
How to boil an egg →
French cookery scientist Hervé This says that the 10-minute boiled egg is the wrong way to go about cooking your eggs. Temperature and not time is the governing factor to gloriously boiled eggs.
Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private... →
Wait. I thought it was Microsoft that puts out rushed and buggy software patches?
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Is the internet fucking awesome? →
slackr:
sunili:
(via theoisjonesing: byepolar: Another topherchris classic)
Soulja Boy on getting his Myspace account hacked... →
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He is remarkably cool about it… THIS is how to respond to 4chan…
they did it for the lulz
Obama Assassination Plot Investigated By Colorado... →
According to multiple sources, Aurora police made a routine traffic stop Sunday morning at 2:38 a.m. The Secret Service says two rifles were found in the car along with methamphetamine. Another law…
Obama Under Fire? →
A Denver TV station is reporting authorities may have foiled an assassination plot against Barack Obama, and there’s talk the suspects may be members of a white supremacy group.
PwnageTool 2.0.3 released, jailbreaks iPhone 2.0.2 →
Filed under: Cellphones
Still no baseband unlock, but if you’ve been dying to feel the marginal improvements of iPhone OS 2.0.2 while still rocking those crazy homebrew apps, the Dev…