Mortie, Mortie: He's no shorty, Mortie.
It’s coming! It’s coming! The League of Gentlemen movie!
Great article in Seattle Weekly on investing for change.
I’m feeling a bit luddite: why on earth would people watch TV on a cellphone?
Fidgeters seem to burn an extra 350 calories a day, or 10-20 pounds a year.
And the FCC and White House drop their effort to relax media ownership rules. Thank you, Media Alliance!
I’m a big fan of Apple and its products and third-party furniture spinoffs, but when will they green up their manufacturing process?
Why does health insurance have to have attitude?
Mr (Ted) Turner … said it was “not necessarily a bad thing” that CNN and other news networks were behind Fox in the ratings. Adolf Hitler was more popular in Germany in the early 1930s than people that were running against him”.
Former AOL/Time Warner chairman Ted Turner compares Fox to Nazi propaganda
A very cool set of Yellow Pages, although I’m not sure I’d have wanted to be the photographer who rode in the van all day to get these photos.
A horrible US remake of BBC hit The Office is making the rounds on the Internet today (d’oh, link removed).
Bizarre case study for any institute, in this case, the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics: An independent consultancy assesses al-Qaida’s progress and prospects for 2005 and beyond.
SiliconValley.com positions Tivo as on its way to becoming the most successful failure in history. While my Tivo is already paying for itself with its lifetime subscription, I wonder if its too soon to be making that prediction. If they do go south, I predict they’ll be purchased by a competitor with the leverage to market a product with tremendous brand identity. They’re solvent for another year.
There will be no more Powells in the Bush administration come March, now that FCC chairman Michael Powell is leaving.
The Norwegians say Dubya was saluting Satan — I just remember that in high school the same sign was used to claim allegiance to both Rush and REO Speedwagon on alternate days.
Former Washington State Governor Albert Rossellini (the route 520 bridge was named after him) still kicking at 95: and usually compared to former Chicago Mayor Richard “Boss” Daley.
Say you spent 18 years of your life perfecting something, and then someone forgets to activate that something, rendering that something useless.
Nice to see Sabrina Lloyd and Rob Morrow working again in the series “NUMB3RS“. Will the math-equations-solving-crimes premise work? Maybe.
It’s not often I read about a former employer in a national magazine, highlighted in a feature article in this month’s Washington Monthly. Of course, I worked a couple of summers through college doing “design” at Arthur Andersen, long before the troubles.
First it was Tinky-Winky. Now radical right-wing group Focus on the Family outs Spongebob Squarepants.
And then there’s the equally vocal Parents Television Council, a group responsible for 99.9% of FCC complaints.
What [FCC chair Michael] Powell did not reveal—apparently because he was unaware—was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003—99.8 percent—were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group.
99.8% of 240,000 complaints, that is
Slightly disturbing VW car bomber video.
Speaking of slightly disturbing, why not plop a Visa card down on this work entitled “Mortie in my Thoughts.”
Another impending disaster in free trade — find out what you can do to stop the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
My friend Ivan participates in Santacon every year. Last year was a tri-city organized event, where he attended Santacon’s in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver BC. Canadian site Zed has a short film submission covering the Vancouver event.
Finally, a beer-drinking blog I can support — a non-official Utica Club site.
Speaking of beer, The Register reports that scientists have found that beer can fight cancer.
A BBC World Service poll finds that more than half of those surveyed believe the US has made the world a more dangerous place.
Was it a real laptop that had no insides? No, it was way better than we ever imagined. It was a real iBook box, with a bunch of Village Voices for weight and the greatest piece of shit ever made. A fake laptop made of gray garbage bag and cardboard, spray-painted platinum silver and finished with A HAND-PAINTED APPLE LOGO DONE IN WHITE-OUT.
Never buy a Powerbook from a crack addict
SpazOutNY contemplates Nostradamus’ predictions on the Bush presidency, and Everything I Need to Know I learned from Iron Maiden.
MonkeyMethods has photos of Bill Gates from a Teen Beat Photospread, 1983.
WA man finds that he doesn’t have a toothache, but a nail in his head.
Privatization or personal accounts? Bush isn’t sure in this conversation with Washington Post reporters.
Seymour Hersh reports that the U.S. has Iran in their sights. Maybe we’ll use the Badonkadonk. They will not be using a gay aphordisiac weapon, however.
Meanwhile, The New York Times reports on events in Ukraine prior to the presidential election that narrowly avoided a crackdown.
MSNBC stunningly reports that DEER ARE EATING AWAY AT FORESTS NATIONWIDE!
Oracle lays off 5,000 PeopleSoft workers — via FedEx and UPS.
Hours before Oracle’s Friday announcement, employees turned a PeopleSoft sign into a makeshift shrine of flowers, candles and company memorabilia. An inflatable doll dressed in black wore a button that read “Oracle” with a slash through it.
Employees react to Oracle takeover and 5,000 layoffs
A Survivor contestant is in deep doo-doo for failing to report income won on the show.