י״ז בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Tuesday 9 June 2009)

Two facts about Oprah

י״ז בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Tuesday 9 June 2009)

Here are two things I didn’t know about Oprah that I learned from reading the article about her in Newsweek (by the way – nice job, Newsweek): Oprah has made a deal to launch her own cable television channel that will reach 70 million homes. At Oprah’s retail store in Chicago, women can purchase used [...]

Strange Maps – America's Mean Streak

י״ז בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Tuesday 9 June 2009)

Extra buttery popcorn

ט״ז בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Monday 8 June 2009)

Why was I not in the room when someone figured out that the best way to make extra buttery popcorn is first to make popcorn and then add extra butter? The sparks must really have been flying that day. Imagine the other ideas those people must have gone through before reaching the correct one: the [...]

Autotune the News #4

י״ג בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Friday 5 June 2009)

There was an article in Slate back in, I think, April that mentioned this guy who’s making autotuned cable news mashups and putting them on youtube. He’s awesome and his videos are hilarious, and even just bad enough (eg, fake mustache falling off) to be even funnier than if he’d had a tremendous budget. Check [...]

Harvard is a Gay University

י״ב בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Thursday 4 June 2009)

And I mean that in the truest meaning of the word “gay.” Really – I’ve been to Harvard twice for the Yale-Harvard football extravaganza, and everyone in sight was totally gay. Now Harvard will be even gayer than before, since they’re endowing a chair in Gay Studies. This reminded me of a long-forgotten project I [...]

The Friendsterization of The Facebook

י״ב בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Thursday 4 June 2009)

The Facebook is going to get rid of regional networks. Interesting idea. Also totally lame. I wasn’t so keen on the idea of regional networks when they implemented it a few years ago. I thought Facebook was better when used only by people with access to university email addresses (in practice, only by students and [...]

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