Published November 20, 2008 | 
Some people consider Twitter to be twitworthy. Others regard it as a useful tool. Some few are Tweeting geniuses, like Junglemonkey: Approach a baby as you would a heroin addict in withdrawal: slowly, quietly and keeping valuables well out of reach.
The ideal gift for your favorite zookeeper, hunter, or animal-lover, assuming the giftee has no taste whatsoever. Seriously. Thanks to loracs.
Stimulation vs. persuasion, or how talk radio killed the Republican Party. Fascinating analysis and perhaps the juiciest instance of poetic justice since the first engineer was hoist by his own petard. Do click through to the full David Foster Wallace interview with John Ziegler.
We all know Obama uses a Mac laptop. We can guess that he’s a dyed-in-the-wool geek because it has a Pac-Man sticker snapping at the Apple on the lid. And now the geekery is spreading: Obama’s FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player, and has played in two different endgame guilds, including Joi Ito’s famous We Know guild. Link from hotel_jewelweed.
Oh sweet Jesus. One toke over the line, indeed. Blame jrittenhouse.
Nah. I approach babies saying, “Hey, smooch!”
i can’t believe that video! can’t watch it either — it’s making me cringe all over. *g*
i wonder how many other people find nate silver eerily hot? whenever he turned up on msnbc before the election, i’d listen to every word he said. thanks for this link!
Who knew Lawrence Welk featured my theme song? Hee.
(I have a bizarre love-love relationship with Lawrence Welk: someday when I’ve had entirely too much to drink, I shall ramble on incoherently about it, and you can pat me on the shoulder, and say, “It’s okay”, and put a blanket over me, and then in the morning, I will swear to never do that again, and you can laugh at me.)
That talk radio article is interesting, but I think it’s one of those correlation-does-not-imply-causation situations. Still, the points are fascinating and valid in other ways.
“A modern spiritual.” Oh, is that what they’re calling it now? (“After a trip to the corner, Lanny cooked the stuff he bought, tied off his arm, and eased the needle into a vein. In just a few moments he was really feeling the spirit….”)
Re Phone: The kitch, it burns.
Re Talk Radio: Sometimes it’s not a matter of persuasion, but a matter of being honest. To be honest with you, Mr. Wallace just doesn’t get it. Sometimes it’s not a matter of interpretation, of seeing things another way, but of seeing things as they are.
As Harlan Ellison once said, “You have the right to your own opinion. You don’t have the right to your own fact.”
Just Watched It
Re Video: I never thought I would see a day when I would pine for Pat Boone’s interpretation of a song.