NYT:
Google Maps hasn’t quite heard of Mountain House:
Ths sponsored link homegain.com links to findmeaforeclosure.com…
…which has the same registrant as tracyrealestate.com:
(Both sites’ “Community” links are blank.)
Repeat ad nauseam nationwide.
GM CEO Rick Wagoner “referring to GM, Ford Motor and Chrysler,” in the FT (Simon+Guerrera, “GM Chief Defends Reliance on SUVs,” 6 June ’08; liberated version here).
Is it the US manufacturers who are stupid? I don’t think so. You have to recognise that the consumer makes the call here … and we are reacting.
So how [...]
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the WP’s Dan Froomkin wrote (“Who’s in Charge? Karl Rove!”, 15 Sep ’05):
Rove’s leadership role suggests quite strikingly that any and all White House decisions and pronouncements regarding the recovery from the storm are being made with their political consequences as the primary consideration. More specifically: With an eye [...]
Jerry Sanders, the Mayor of San Diego, explains his change of heart:
He puts the lie to the stone-faced doom-mongering and martial mummery right-wing cowards are forever hiding behind.
Exaggeration, it seems.
Dow, 9 Jan 1970 – 24 Oct 2008:
Harvard Crimson (Vascellaro, “Faculty Tries to Combat Grade Inflation,” 6 Jun ’02):
The [Boston] Globe story—which was picked up by news media nationwide—focused on the 91 percent of Harvard students who graduated with honors in 2001 compared to 51 percent of Yale and 44 percent of Princeton [...]
Roberto Saviano on the Camorra:
But in reality, it is a life of s—. They are always shut inside their homes. They have the same women who they have to share because they do not trust anyone, so it’s not true that they are big playboys.
An anthro thesis waiting to be written.
Photo: Julian Bleecker, Everyday Digital Money conf, UC Irvine, 18-19 Sept 2008.
(B***S***)
FT:
The programmers of Super Mario Galaxy will generate more profit this year than the average Goldman Sachs banker has ever managed. According to calculations by the Financial Times, the average employee at Japanese video games maker Nintendo is on track to earn more for their company this year than the average Goldman Sachs employee did [...]
…and now my dreams have come true!”
The NYT covers the hype about a new digital device, a letter-size grayscale screen, but omits key words such as “hard” or ”stiff” in lieu of the more flexible term “flexible.” Apparently unaware that the hardcopy NYT has been printed in color for over a decade (since 16 Oct [...]
The first time it’s a tragedy, the second time a farce:
Those were the days, eh?
The text of Windy’s letter to Governor Shrub follows.
1968: Discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay
1974: construction begins on Trans-Alaska Pipeline
1976: Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) established
1977: Trans-Alaska Pipeline completed
1982: APF pays first dividend
1984: AIP recognized as political party “per emergency regulation”
1984: APF pays $331.29 dividend
1985: APF pays $404.00 dividend
1986: AIP Vogler/Rowe ticket receives 5.5% of votes cast**
1986: APF pays $556.26 dividend
1987: APF pays $708.19 [...]
Chris Matthews (at 0:35) on the appearance of the Obama children onstage at the DNC:
They’ve not, uh, fully exploited those kids at all, and they shouldn’t, but it’s nice to see them all together once in a while.
Frédéric Bourdin, Christian Gerhartsreiter (in the NYT’s “Fashion and Style” section), Radovan Karadzic… Are there more, or are they getting caught more?