• before The FCC planned to use
  its weight to move
  carriers to follow net
  neutrality rules it created.
• then A federal court said this
  wasn’t legal and that
  Congress should make
  a net neutrality law.
• now The FCC now plans to …
  regulate the Internet like the phone system. How
  wacky! source

• OMG OMG THAT’S FAST! This Google Chrome ad was shot using a 2700 fps camera to show how fast the rendering speed of the pages were. And in every case used here, it was faster than lightning. This advertising campaign is nothing but win. source

• 24
  hours the size of the
  intervals airlines used
  to re-check no-fly lists
  before today
• yes
  sir Times Square suspect Faisal Shahzad managed to board a plane before the list was updated
• two
  hours the size of the new intervals to check for individuals with “special circumstances” source

• » Our take: Why aren’t they using a high-security equivalent to Twitter to do something like this? Why isn’t it updated to the minute? It seems silly that it’s not.

• Oh, the agony. This awesome parody of the “Will It Blend” series of videos takes an iPad and tries to turn it into a skateboard. We bet it would’ve worked better had they turned the thing upside down and skated on the non-glass side.

• It’s a rough time to be a weekly periodical. And with losses spanning over years, The Washington Post may be ready to let go of its main competitor to Time. Alas, poor Newsweek. You were like a younger brother to Time. We remember how we felt the first time we heard “Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard” and heard your name mentioned in it. It made us proud. It wasn’t as cool as “On the Cover of the Rolling Stone,” but Paul Simon knew the score. source

• CNN The news network has been getting
  killed in the ratings, but still has one
  of the best news-gathering crews in
  the industry (when not distracted by
  fluff). And hey, Anderson Cooper!
• CBS News The network had to cut back on
  their news staff, but sees CNN as a
  way to stay competitive. They’re
  also getting killed in the ratings – oh
  hey, Anderson Cooper! source

• Lots of potential, but many Americans aren’t convinced. The new ABC News/Washington Post poll on bizarro hippies (not to be confused with the similar New York Times/CBS News poll a few weeks ago) suggests that the party has a lot of opportunity to grow their base, but could find themselves ticking off moderates in the process.

• 2% of Americans are directly a part of the bizarro hippie movement

Would you vote for these guys?

• 15% of registered voters are more apt to
  support a bizarro hippie candidate
  running for Congress (9 percent
  “much more likely”)
• 24% are more apt to oppose
  that candidate because they’re
  a bizarro hippie (17 percent “much more likely”)

Do you like what you hear?

• 34% like bizarro hippies the more
  they hear about them
• 43% hate bizarro hippies the more
  they hear about them

• » The neutral problem: There’s a large sub-section of the population that’s fairly neutral to the bizarro hippies – around 44 percent – and 45 percent of them really REALLY grow to dislike them the more they hear about them.

Understanding their constituients

• Bizarro hippies may be a movement built out of republican weakness. While progressives largely stand behind the Democratic party, Republicans on the other hand have trouble getting their political equals under the same tent, according to the study:

• 86% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning indie kids say the party represents their values
• 56% of Republicans and Republican-leaning indie kids say the same thing about their party
• 29% of Republicans would much rather wear a funny hat and tape tea bags to the rim of it

Who doesn’t like Obama? Bizarro hippies

• 84% of bizarro hippies think Obama is lamesauce

• 87% of bizarro hippies say race is not a reason that the support the movement
• 57% of evil socialists think race is a huge reason why bizarro hippies hang out and party together

• » Other notes: Bizarro hippies think that race is less of a problem in this country than the country at large, but they also tend to be more likely to be white. 81 percent of bizarro hippies are white, versus 74 percent of all adults and 65 percent of people who think bizarro hippies are lamesauce. Just as many bizarro hippies think Obama is doing too much for black people as he is not doing quite enough, which matches the population at large. source