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30 Jan 2010 00:35

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Chatter: Fox News looking so hard at the I’s that it missed you

  • 43 number of uses of the word "I" in Barack Obama's speech in Baltimore yesterday
  • 45 number of uses of the word "you" in the speech, which doesn't seem so selfish
  • 43 number of uses of the word "we" in the speech – also not so selfish considering source
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22 Jan 2010 23:27

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Music: “Purple and Gold”: Prince fails at writing a proper team spirit song

  • The Pur­ple One may be one of the least likely judges of what makes a good team spirit song, but Prince does know some­thing about the color pur­ple. The real prob­lem with this song is that it sounds like it’s designed to be sung at church, not at a Min­nesota Vikings game. Some­how, this is even stranger than the name change was back in the day. This song could seri­ously be the billy goat for the entire state of Min­nesota. source
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21 Jan 2010 10:28

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U.S.: Great. The Supreme Court turns off campaign funding limits

  • 5-4 douches beat cool people once again source
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16 Jan 2010 17:09

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Tech: Nokia and Apple still having a massive contest of egos

  • nokia Has lost mas­sive mar­ket share after the iPhone’s release. Sued Apple for patent infringe­ment. Apple rebuffed. Sued Apple again, claim­ing that nearly all prod­ucts Apple makes infringe their patents.
  • apple Has com­pletely changed the mar­ket that Nokia owned for about a decade. Claims Nokia essen­tially copied their phones. Is now ask­ing the ITC to block all imports of Nokia phones into the U.S. source
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15 Jan 2010 09:08

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Offbeat: Someone already managed to doucheify “Pants on the Ground”

  • Pro­tip: If you sound any­thing remotely like Jason Mraz or Jack John­son when you play gui­tar, your fin­gers should be webbed together using Crazy Glue so you can’t share your “gift’ with the world. Don’t ruin the great­est song ever, dude.
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14 Jan 2010 23:08

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Culture: Jay Leno has been in a situation like Conan’s before

  • NBC is like a guy with two girl­friends who doesn’t know which one he’s going to marry on Jan. 15. And the longer you wait, the mad­der they both get.
  • Jay Leno • In a 1992 inter­view with the New York Times, where he made a big to-do about poten­tially los­ing “The Tonight Show” to David Let­ter­man. Sound famil­iar, Jay? Just sayin’. source
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05 Jan 2010 11:23

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Offbeat: Gamer spends too much money on item that isn’t real

  • $330,000 for virtual item source
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04 Jan 2010 20:42

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Tech: Mashable’s redesign sucks. Yeah, we said it. What what?

  • They look like the estab­lish­ment now. Mashable’s always had a lot of clut­ter in its design, due to the fact that they tended to try a lot of things and throw them on the wall and see if they worked. It’s what the site’s always been about. They did need a redesign, and we’re glad they’re try­ing. But we’d rather have the old design back than this slick hodge­podge that feels like absolutely noth­ing at all.
  • Why does it suck? The col­ors of this design are so quiet, so muted, so sim­i­lar to Yahoo!‘s long­stand­ing mid-decade quiet tones, that it doesn’t make us feel any­thing. Also worth not­ing: The head­shots, which empha­sized that this was a personality-driven site, have been de-emphasized too much, cre­at­ing an anony­mous, generic feel.
  • Changes worth con­sid­er­ing Mashable’s a pop­u­lar site, but it could stand to be hip­per (like Engad­get, which just got a great redesign) or more play­ful (like Twit­ter, which dri­ves much of the site’s traf­fic). It should have as much per­son­al­ity as the words of its jet­set­ting founder, Pete Cash­more. Cleaner doesn’t mean life­less. Never for­get that, kids.
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03 Jan 2010 03:10

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Chatter: Corny country comic Ray Stevens is still around, still sucks

  • 36 years ago, this guy was respon­si­ble for one of the cheesi­est, corni­est songs to ever become a No. 1 pop hit, “The Streak.” (In his defense, Owl City’s bla­tant Postal Ser­vice rip-off “Fire­flies” might be cornier and cheesier.) Since then, he’s main­tained a cult audi­ence, but in recent years, he’s taken to releas­ing top­i­cal coun­try “com­edy” songs about cur­rent events, with a far right­ward lean. This one, “We the Peo­ple,” threat­ens con­gress­men who vote for health care. And it has a mil­lion views on YouTube. Who are these mil­lion view­ers, and what are they doing search­ing for “Ray Stevens” on YouTube? It’s not even funny!
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04 Dec 2009 19:55

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Chatter: Glenn Beck has a movie out, and it bombed in major cities

  • 17 people bothered to show up to see the movie in New York City last night
  • 17 came to see "The Christmas Sweater: A Return To Redemption" in Bah-stin
  • 30 policy wonks decided to spend Thursday watching Glenn Beck in D.C. source
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