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EPIC FAIL by CNN. WTF?!?
House passes healthcare reform bill, CNN relegates story to sidebar while Jenny Craig mom gets center billing (plus bigger headline and twice the column width).
I live in NYC. I sell ads. I work for blip.tv. We deliver web shows via a series of tubes. I like to cook. My wife likes sprinkles.
November 8, 2009
November 7, 2009
8:09 pm
In tribute to those who fell at Ft. Hood, I’ve ordered flags flying over the White House, and other federal buildings to be lowered to half-staff from now until Veterans Day next Wednesday. Veterans Day is our chance to honor those Americans who’ve served on battlefields from Lexington to Antietam, Normandy to Manila, Inchon to Khe Sanh, Ramadi to Kandahar. They are Americans of every race, faith, and station. They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers. They are descendents of immigrants and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America. But what they share is a patriotism like no other. What they share is a commitment to country that has been tested and proved worthy. What they share is the same unflinching courage, unblinking compassion, and uncommon camaraderie that the soldiers and civilians of Ft. Hood showed America and showed the world. These are the men and women we honor today. These are the men and women we’ll honor on Veterans Day. And these are the men and women we shall honor every day, in times of war and times of peace, so long as our nation endures.
5:52 pm
“When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it till it was all over.”
Watching this now. Win.
5:00 pm
New York City office workers who got carried away during the Yankees victory parade Friday apparently began tossing files and documents out the window when they couldn’t get their hands on confetti. Auditor Damian Salo attended the Manhattan parade. He told The New York Post that he found all kinds of personal financial documents in the mountains of shredded paper tossed from skyscrapers as the players rode up Broadway in Manhattan. “We’re finding pay stubs. We’re finding personal financial information. We found a balance sheet of someone’s trust fund showing $300,000 in stock,” Salo told the Post.
The Neverending Cartoon - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan →
4:45 pm
Going down the artistic rabbit hole.
This is pretty cool
Wow.
4:43 pm
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Hell Out Of This of the Day: Clever French dude shows you how to open a bottle of wine when you’re sans corkscrew.
YouTube commenter majom89 has the last word on this: “Well, what to say? They’re french, and french people know much about wine.”
Indeed.
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If I tried to do this the following would happen:
1. Broken glass.
2. Ruined shoe.
3. Stitches.
4. Loss of wine.
The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - The Berlin Wall Through Time - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com →
4:31 pm
Another kick-ass info-graphic from NYT.com. Not sure I’d pay for it though.
So this is coming out Tuesday. Problem is I have to be in Detroit TWICE next week for business. This is not a problem from a business point of view (quite the opposite actually). But it means the earliest I’ll get real time with this game is Friday. There’s my weekend. This game looks fantastic. Watch the extended game trailer here: http://modernwarfare2.infinityward.com/games.php#/videos?id=8
