For reasons surpassing explanation, I have a Twitter account. I don't know why — I'm not a big Twitter fan. But there it is. When I created it several months ago, I realized there was a way to make my Twitter status automatically become my Facebook status. So I rigged that. Of course, it didn't make any difference, because I hardly … Read More
Unsportmanlike Tweeting?
This Twitter phenomenon is getting out-of-hand and just plain silly: The National Basketball Association has fined Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban $25,000 for unsportsmanlike Twittering for his online comment about referees, The Dallas Morning News reports. After Friday's game with the Nuggets, Cuban used the interactive site to question why a technical foul wasn't called on a Nugget player for … Read More
MySpace Is Now Half The Size Of Facebook
Poor Rupert Murdoch: MySpace had 124 million monthly unique visitors last month, a decline of 2%, according to the marketing research company comScore. Facebook, by contrast, racked up 276 million unique visitors, an increase of 16.6%. Michael Arrington, co-editor of the influential industry blog TechCrunch, posted: "What was a bad situation in November 2008 is starting to turn outright ugly … Read More
Making The Classics Better
To be released on April 8: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the … Read More
Family Circus Phoning It In
Over at the Comics Curmudgeon, a reader noticed that Bil Keane, artist of Family Circus is recycling old Family Circus cartoons. At the left is a Family Circus from 1970 or 1971; on the right is the one printed in last Friday's newspapers: Aside from the color, the placement of the caption, and the name change of the teacher, … Read More
Top Ten Reasons Why I Don’t Follow NCAA Basketball
(10) It's just a bunch of pituitary cases throwing a rubber ball around. (9) The last 4 minutes of any game is all that matters. The rest is all hype and foreplay. (8) It's a game that's more fun to play than to watch. (7) The single-minded obsessiveness of its fans, what with office pools, etc. I mean, you would think … Read More
It’s Just A TV Show
The New York Times does a story on people who build replicas of Captain Kirk's command chair from the Enterprise to go into their living rooms. Um. I guess it makes a good conversation piece for a couple of months, but then what? It's just this weird chair that's…. there. Now, if I was this guy's wife (yes, he's married), and … Read More
Chaos At “America’s Next Top Model” Audition In NYC
Someone apparently saw an overheated car and yelled "bomb":
Thoughts On Facebook
First, a critique: The reason to hate Facebook is because of the stultifying mind-numbing inanity of it all, the sheer boredom. If Facebook helps put together streakers with voyeurs, the streakers, for the most part, after shedding their trench coats, seem to be running around not with taut and tanned hard-bodies, but in stained granny panties with dark socks. They … Read More
Web Surfing To Become More Annoying
Yuch: The Online Publishers Assn. on Tuesday released several new in-your-face advertising formats designed to be both more obtrusive and interactive. Twenty-seven top Internet publishers — including the New York Times, CNN, CBS Interactive, ESPN and the Wall Street Journal — say they'll try the supersize ads in an attempt to get the attention of Web surfers who have learned … Read More
Cramer vs. Non-Cramer
The TV battle between Jon Stewart and that crazy financial Cramer guy goes on. You can catch up here. The two go mano-a-mano on Thursday night, when Cramer appears on Stewart's show. UPDATE: The countercriticism levelled against Stewart is that he "cherry-picks" things to make Cramer's predictions look bad. To which Stewart essentially replies, "Yes. That's what I do. And … Read More
Space, The Fragrant Frontier
Yes, they are coming out with "Star Trek" colognes: Tiberius Named after James T. Kirk's middle name. It has sweet citron zest, black pepper, and cedar as its top notes (top notes refers to those scents that are noticeable first) and warm vanilla, white musk, and sandalwood as its base notes (scents perceived last, usually about a half hour after … Read More
I Came In 71st Place
Here. Rather embarrassing.
Broadway To Become More Pedestrian
This sounds like a good thing: The city plans to close several blocks of Broadway to vehicle traffic through Times Square and Herald Square, an experiment that would turn swaths of the Great White Way into pedestrian malls and continue Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s effort to reduce traffic congestion in Midtown. Although it seems counterintuitive, officials believe the move will … Read More