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30 Jan 2010 00:35

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Politics: Fox News looking so hard at the I’s that it missed you

  • 43 number of uses of the word “I” in Barack Obama’s speech in Baltimore yesterday
  • 45 number of uses of the word “you” in the speech, which doesn’t seem so selfish
  • 43 number of uses of the word “we” in the speech – also not so selfish considering source
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22 Jan 2010 23:27

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Music: “Purple and Gold”: Prince fails at writing a proper team spirit song

  • The Purple One may be one of the least likely judges of what makes a good team spirit song, but Prince does know something about the color purple. The real problem with this song is that it sounds like it’s designed to be sung at church, not at a Minnesota Vikings game. Somehow, this is even stranger than the name change was back in the day. This song could seriously be the billy goat for the entire state of Minnesota. source
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21 Jan 2010 10:28

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U.S.: Great. The Supreme Court turns off campaign funding limits

  • 5-4 douches beat cool people once again source
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16 Jan 2010 17:09

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Tech: Nokia and Apple still having a massive contest of egos

  • nokia Has lost massive market share after the iPhone’s release. Sued Apple for patent infringement. Apple rebuffed. Sued Apple again, claiming that nearly all products Apple makes infringe their patents.
  • apple Has completely changed the market that Nokia owned for about a decade. Claims Nokia essentially copied their phones. Is now asking the ITC to block all imports of Nokia phones into the U.S. source
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15 Jan 2010 09:08

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Offbeat: Someone already managed to doucheify “Pants on the Ground”

  • Protip: If you sound anything remotely like Jason Mraz or Jack Johnson when you play guitar, your fingers should be webbed together using Crazy Glue so you can’t share your “gift’ with the world. Don’t ruin the greatest song ever, dude.
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14 Jan 2010 23:08

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Culture: Jay Leno has been in a situation like Conan’s before

  • NBC is like a guy with two girlfriends who doesn’t know which one he’s going to marry on Jan. 15. And the longer you wait, the madder they both get.
  • Jay Leno • In a 1992 interview with the New York Times, where he made a big to-do about potentially losing “The Tonight Show” to David Letterman. Sound familiar, Jay? Just sayin’. source
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05 Jan 2010 11:23

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Offbeat: Gamer spends too much money on item that isn’t real

  • $330,000 for virtual item source
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04 Jan 2010 20:42

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Tech: Mashable’s redesign sucks. Yeah, we said it. What what?

  • They look like the establishment now. Mashable’s always had a lot of clutter in its design, due to the fact that they tended to try a lot of things and throw them on the wall and see if they worked. It’s what the site’s always been about. They did need a redesign, and we’re glad they’re trying. But we’d rather have the old design back than this slick hodgepodge that feels like absolutely nothing at all.
  • Why does it suck? The colors of this design are so quiet, so muted, so similar to Yahoo!’s longstanding mid-decade quiet tones, that it doesn’t make us feel anything. Also worth noting: The headshots, which emphasized that this was a personality-driven site, have been de-emphasized too much, creating an anonymous, generic feel.
  • Changes worth considering Mashable’s a popular site, but it could stand to be hipper (like Engadget, which just got a great redesign) or more playful (like Twitter, which drives much of the site’s traffic). It should have as much personality as the words of its jetsetting founder, Pete Cashmore. Cleaner doesn’t mean lifeless. Never forget that, kids.
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03 Jan 2010 03:10

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Politics: Corny country comic Ray Stevens is still around, still sucks

  • 36 years ago, this guy was responsible for one of the cheesiest, corniest songs to ever become a No. 1 pop hit, “The Streak.” (In his defense, Owl City’s blatant Postal Service rip-off “Fireflies” might be cornier and cheesier.) Since then, he’s maintained a cult audience, but in recent years, he’s taken to releasing topical country “comedy” songs about current events, with a far rightward lean. This one, “We the People,” threatens congressmen who vote for health care. And it has a million views on YouTube. Who are these million viewers, and what are they doing searching for “Ray Stevens” on YouTube? It’s not even funny!
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04 Dec 2009 19:55

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Politics: Glenn Beck has a movie out, and it bombed in major cities

  • 17 people bothered to show up to see the movie in New York City last night
  • 17 came to see “The Christmas Sweater: A Return To Redemption” in Bah-stin
  • 30 policy wonks decided to spend Thursday watching Glenn Beck in D.C. source
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