The Big Picture

October 9th, 2008

Wow.

I’d never seen this site before:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

It’s incredible.  Espeically looking at it on my nice big cinema display.

Here are a few samples (crunched down a little smaller of course.  to get the full effect, visit the site)

photo by Eric Lafforgue

photo by Eric Lafforgue

photo by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

photo by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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The Saddest Place on Earth

October 7th, 2008

Cinderella, Snow White and Mickey Mouse arrested as police clash with staff at Disneyland

Tough break, Mickey.  You call me when you’re sent up.  I’ve got friends on the inside.

Rolling Stone Knocks McCain Down a Notch

October 7th, 2008

Check out this Rolling Stone piece, along with the video in which contributing editor Tim Dickinson lays out the top 5 myths about McCain.

It’s pretty scathing, and great to hear that at least someone is finally raking this guy over the coals.

The guy crashed three planes as a ‘maverick’ pilot!  3 PLANES.

Ugh.

Once

October 6th, 2008

I just saw the movie Once over the weekend and I really loved it.  I’ve been avoiding it for the last couple of years because I was worried it was going to be incredibly sentimental (two people who are down on their luck writing songs together in Dublin?  Yuck.)  But it was beautiful and rough and the music was excellent (kudos to Glen Hansard of The Frames and Marketa Irglova on that).

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Unemployment

October 3rd, 2008

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Debate Strategy

October 3rd, 2008

i thought this was cute, and surprisingly accurate:

Don’t believe it?  You can watch her reading her cues from her cheat sheet here.

and on a related note, just in case you can’t get enough of Sarah Palin, Hustler is making a porn featuring her look-alike.  I kid you not — you can read a scene from it here.

Wario Land

September 26th, 2008

This is totally amazing — a really clever marketing campaign from Nintendo on YouTube.

You have to check it out

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