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CNN’s Political Team Has It Covered

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:00:05 -0600

CNN’s Political Team Has It Covered:

A brief (hypothetical) snippet from CNN’s debate coverage.

Mitt Romney loves Michigan stuff. Almost makes me feel sorry for...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:00:06 -0600

Mitt Romney loves Michigan stuff. Almost makes me feel sorry for the dude.

the-overlook-hotel: Never-before-published photograph of...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00:05 -0600

the-overlook-hotel:

Never-before-published photograph of director Stanley Kubrick standing on the set of the hedge maze during production of The Shining.

(Original photo in personal collection of Lee Unkrich)

Ricky Gervais, on Daily Show to promote new show, actually just...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:00:05 -0600

Ricky Gervais, on Daily Show to promote new show, actually just talks to Stewart about panda sex.

Kickstarter - Double Fine Adventure

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:00:06 -0600

Kickstarter - Double Fine Adventure:

I had to join this campaign, even though it’s already funded. Tim Schafer’s adventures are some of my all-time favorite games (e.g. Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle), and he wants to do an old-fashioned one here.

by Elad Gil, arguing that 2012 will be the year of...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:00:05 -0600

by Elad Gil, arguing that 2012 will be the year of Pinterest-style social curation. I gave it a try, and was annoyed by how I couldn’t easily add a website if it didn’t have a big fat picture on it. Not push button enough!

Get an extra 5GB of Dropbox space

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:00:05 -0600

Dropbox is beta testing some new clients that include automatic camera upload functionality. If you install one of these new builds and use the feature to upload a ton of new photos and/or videos, they will increase your storage limit up to 5GB above your current threshold. The files have to be new to Dropbox, and the videos can’t be too large; not sure what the cutoff is, but my guess is 500 MB. So far I’ve pushed my limit up 3GB, but the Android client I’m using is crashing a lot.

If you don’t already have an account: http://db.tt/HyrQffS

Desktop clients (Windows, Mac, Linux): http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=53104&replies=956

Android client: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=53013

The 5 GB is cumulative; can’t get more by using all of the different clients. Still a pretty good deal.

"We can look at this, sure, although I think we have a pretty good system set up now."

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:14:25 -0600

“We can look at this, sure, although I think we have a pretty good system set up now.”

- FEC Chairman Caroline Hunter (R), on the rules that let Super PACs to hide their donors for up to 7 months.

Jonah Goldberg of the National Review wonders aloud whether they’ve got themselves a dud: ...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:00:06 -0600

Jonah Goldberg of the National Review wonders aloud whether they’ve got themselves a dud:

As a bunch of us have been writing around here for a while, the under-emphasized dynamic in this race isn’t that Romney isn’t conservative enough (though that’s obviously a real concern out there) it’s that he’s simply not a good enough politician. He may be the most electable on paper. He’s certainly a nice guy, decent father, smart, successful etc. But, every time he seems to get into his groove and pull away he says things that make people think he doesn’t know how to play the game. That can be reassuring to some, who take it as proof he’s not another politician. The problem, for others at least, is that because he isn’t a natural politician he breaks the language where it needs to bend. He uses language — “I like to fire people!” “It’s nothing to get angry about” etc — that doesn’t make him seem like an unconventional politician. Rather his language makes him seem like a caricature of a conventionally stiff country club Republican.

A case in point, here he is this morning talking about how he’s “not very concerned about the very poor” (video here). I get the point he’s making. It’s a point that Bill Clinton won the presidency with — but with language that attracted voters. Romney’s language won’t do anything of the sort. And the concern is, after nearly a decade of running for president, if he can’t get this stuff down now he never will.

I think Goldberg’s got this right. It’s not that the sentiments Romney expresses are out of the mainstream of American political thought; he’s a perfectly tuned weathervane. It’s just that he has a way of pointing out how bankrupt those positions are, by force of his terrible spokemanship.

Finally saw Winter’s Bone. Pleasantly surprised. Usually the Odyssey is played out as a road...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:00:06 -0600

Finally saw Winter’s Bone. Pleasantly surprised. Usually the Odyssey is played out as a road trip in American movies, but this one goes in a different, more satisfying direction.

“Tell them to the find the money. If not we should just eat the cost. This is an award winner.”

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:02:06 -0600

Just realized Drive got no Oscar nominations. And this after I heard The Interrupters was shut out...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:01:05 -0600

Just realized Drive got no Oscar nominations. And this after I heard The Interrupters was shut out of the documentary category. Disgraceful.

"As you know, I think the outside super PACs and others is so disgraceful that I’m ashamed of..."

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:06 -0600

“As you know, I think the outside super PACs and others is so disgraceful that I’m ashamed of the United States Supreme Court in their decision on [Citizens] United.”

- John McCain. Can’t say I disagree.

Folding car (by MITChangingPlaces)

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:00:05 -0600

Folding car (by MITChangingPlaces)

Ubuntu replacing menus with search-based HUD. Looks promising....

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:06 -0600

Ubuntu replacing menus with search-based HUD. Looks promising. (by ubuntudevelopers)

venomous porridge: The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:00:05 -0600

venomous porridge: The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA:

dwineman:

Apple just released iBooks Author, a free Mac app for creating digital books for the new version of iBooks. I haven’t played with it much, but so far it looks like a very good tool. However, a curious thing happens when you go to export your work in iBooks format:

This restriction — that…

Lowe's Is Sorry If Its Appeasement of Anti-Muslim Bigots Has Offended You(via @Gawker)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:00:05 -0600

Lowe's Is Sorry If Its Appeasement of Anti-Muslim Bigots Has Offended You(via @Gawker):

By pulling its ads from TLC’s All-American Muslim—a reality show in which Michigan-based Muslims (“terrorists”) hug, roller-blade, dance in their middle-class driveways, and engage in other banal activities (“fight the holy war”)—Lowe’s Home Improvement pleased and appeased America’s…

Did You Read? - Portlandia on IFC (by ifc)

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:00:05 -0600

Did You Read? - Portlandia on IFC (by ifc)

Devastating Explosions

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:00:06 -0600

Devastating Explosions

"Despite being in Washington for decades and leading the 1994 GOP revolution, Gingrich only has..."

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:13:06 -0600

“Despite being in Washington for decades and leading the 1994 GOP revolution, Gingrich only has garnered six endorsements from Republican House members, and none in the Senate.”

- From The Hill. Too erratic for their tastes, I suppose.