Comedy Central & Carlos Mencia: A Bit-Stealing Match Made In Heaven
So, Comedy Central, not content with letting one of your stars steal other people's bits, eh? Wanted a piece of that action too, didja?
Prior art, and all that.
"We've Replaced His John McCain With Some Fred Thompson. Let's See If He Notices."
So I have my problems with the Honorable Gentleman from Arizona — amnesty, Gang of 14, class warfare rhetoric in opposing Bush's tax cuts, Gitmo idiocy, that execrable McCain-Feingold, etc. — but something strange is afoot. See, I somehow got onto his direct email list and some rather funny things have been slipping through [...]
It's Friday, You Ain't Got No Job, You Ain't Got No Money
…But you sure-as-heck have stuff to do, namely: check these links! Foo!
All you Philly area WordPressers take note: Matt Mullenweg will be in town next week and attending a meetup on Thursday. Grab a stool and swing by (well, not in that order necessarily…).
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Celebrity Look-Alikes
During the last couple of weeks (the course of the NY Governor dustup), I've been recurrently bothered by Eliot Spitzer's pictures. I wasn't quite sure where the strong reaction came from. Then today it struck me:
That's right. Slap a 'stache on Spitzer and you've got Bill "The Chin!" Cowher. There's only [...]
My Nominee For "Nobel Prize For Cunning Commentary (Web Edition)"
Slashdot carried an interesting story today about Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, claiming that Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) destroys free markets and eliminates companies' ability to "create wealth", a dubious proposition at best, but one which spawned the following insightful comment from one "jbeaupre":
Oddly, I see FOSS as an extreme example of capitalism. Reductio [...]
That's Just About The Size Of It
On my commute home this evening, I noted a car ahead of me bearing a very well-worn Fred Thompson 2008 campaign sticker in the lower-left of their rear window. Tucked in next to the Fred! sticker was a far shinier, far newer Mitt Romney 2008 sticker. Now, if only the owner would post [...]
