2008

"I knew Thomas Jefferson, and you sir...

“White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want...”
—  Copy for an ad  Jesse Helms...

Here are a couple fantastic pictures taken from the Santa...

Firefox 3 is the Truth. Make it your...

““The nuclear bomb? Does that bother...”
—  Richard Nixon to Henry...

Late Adopter: 30 Rock

Multiple parties asked me if I had checked NBC’s “30 Rock” so I watched an episode...

Review: The Happening

First of all, this film isn’t THAT bad. It has an interesting idea behind it and several scenes that...

Words that you don't want to read on the...

David Brooks Continues to Struggle to Find...

Jaws Attacks!

Don’t forget to check out the record that’s out now at jawsattacks.com

Josh Homme Shreds

Drobo - Data Backup "Robot"

Calling Drobo a “robot” is kind of a stretch (although I suppose technically correct),...

Lara Logan shreds.  The future of news.  CBS has a major...

Another Drive Down

One of my 3 Lacie Firewire drives went down yesterday.  That’s the 2nd HD in the last 3...

Southland Tales: The Worst Movie of the...

When I heard “Donnie Darko” director Richard Kelly was making a post-apocalyptic film...

Summer in Malibu

The early Summer months are always the ones that bring out the - how to put this politely - casual...

Blog It Test

This is a test post from the Blog It iPhone app. Not sure how often I’m gonna fire off posts...

Meet the Press: The Best Stay the Best?

What makes Tim Russert’s passing even more of a bummer to me is that his show was simply the...

Sunday's will be a little empty for me now. ...

Ralph Nader told you so, now give him...

theaudible: From Votenader.org: From food safety (bad tomatoes), to cracking down on corporate...

Why more stars will be funding their own...

Will Ferrell’s FunnyorDie takes HBO for up to $10 million We’re going to see a lot of...

The NBA, Donaghy and Ralph Nader

theaudible: * A disgraced ref drops a bombshell Man, everyone is saying people who think the NBA is...

Funny, I brokered this story with Adam and...

Nader vs. Stern

Bill Simmons, the NBA "Product" and You

theaudible: EDIT:  You know,  I got a little carried away with a portion of this post.  And I want...

Google Logo

Call it a gut feeling, but I think soon Google is gonna change it’s logo.  And it’s...

Hunter is suffering from an acute case...

hanchor: Converse hates me. Why do they discontinue the One Star, then make it again, then kill it...

This is gonna be the best movie of the year.  The book is...

Ladies Love Pirates via Boing Boing

via io9

“Testing out Seesmic. Seems to work.”
—  Hunter

It’s very difficult for me to not pull the trigger on...

Jordan Tuskeegee’s

via Boing Boing

“It’s almost like she’s the Al Sharpton of white...”
— Chris Matthews on Hillary...

If you have some spare wall space (and some spare $$$, the...

Hillary Clinton 2012?

At this point I think one has to have a sneaking suspicion that the power mad Clintons are moving to...

Party in Canada eh? Road trip?

If they play in Montreal this is a visit Sascha/Get Wasted trip in the making.  jefftheimer: Wed,...

“Bacon. I call it “God’s currency”.”
— Rider of hilarity. (via...

“And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong...”
—  George W. Bush

I just got done watching Doug Fife on The Daily Show. Doug...

If you use Tumblr, you NEED this.

tumbl-weed: You need 3 things: 1. Flash Player 9 (you probably have this) 2. Adobe AIR 1.0 (you...

If I had $20k laying around I would totally buy this and...

The Media Driving the Narrative

Here’s a great Slate piece about how suddenly the media has decided this race is over, even...

I’m pretty fired up about my new (to me) Mamiya 6...

Yes he did Hanz. Yes. He. Did!

hanchor: Heheheh, he crushed her in NC.    Can anybody actually defend her staying in the race at...

Fios TV

I just ordered Fios TV from Verizon.  Hands down the best cable picture, channel lineup customer...

Nerve's 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of...

If this was an Xl (or even a large) I’d be all over...

Sharky Has Died

I took this with my iPhone.  Some kid in Malibu had...

Quietly Good Design

Listen

I listen to the Basketball Jones podcast pretty regularly...

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of...”
— Thomas Jefferson

Neighbors

These are all shot with my medium format cameras (these particular ones with one of my Holgas)....

Apple: The good, the bad, the totally...

The Good:  I like Apple in general.  I’m not a zealot or anything, but I dig on their...

Let's Review: Politics

I’ll try and break this down since I am notoriously verbose:  The media shapes public opinion...

Ummm....

Wait…  what…  Hillary Clinton is still in this race?  That’s cute.  I...

An annoyance shared by Mark Cuban and I

Never EVER buy Canon Printing Products

“Nice Work Lakers.”
—  Lakers fans in general on the...

Ryan Adams Gets Rad

New Jaws Attacks! Tumblr Site

 Interesting pieces critical of Obey and Shepard...

This little bad bitch is hands down the best scanner...

“The eyes are the groin of the head”
— Dwight Schrute

Clark as Obama's VP?

A friend of mine that is helping the Obama campaign seems to think Wes Clark will be Obama’s...

Lomo Notebook

Listen to "Death & Taxes: Volume One" at...

“I haven’t died yet”
— Michael Arrington in what has...

I'm not sure how to feel about this

Politics in the last 10 days

I left the country about 11 days ago and got back Saturday.  There seems to be very little that has...

Listen

"Damn dirty ape" & gun control jokes: ...

 photos by riley cooney

Namotu was pretty fun this year.  The surf was meager by...

“I’m not of the Washington world.”
— James Carville speaks what has...

So True, So Sad

clopezho: Olaf Breuning makes Matthew Barney seem kind of...

THIS is what web 2.0 is all about...

hanchor: Burning cheese just caused a big bum out.

Fuse.tv - NOFX Backstage Passport

The Long Defeat - New York Times

My pirated movies never expire

hanchor: iTunes stopped playing a rental half-way through. Apple support for iTMS is *totally*...

“I didn’t focus on regional implications, such as how...”
— Jacob Weisberg in his piece on...

A complete moron takes us through his thought...

Fuck the Clintons: Part 5,444,232

Arrrrrrrrr! Ahoy maties... yer copyrights...

I'm really curious what Hanz is working...

hanchor: I have two, totally separate iPhone apps in development. Opposite concepts. Fun.

Everybody get with this. Right now.

I’ll be checking this next week.  Sweet action.

High Likelihood of Being Awesome

Tropic Thunder

Chuck Rose is Tits as Balls

Stoked

Obama Campaign Skewers Clinton E-mail...

My Brother is going back to Iraq

My brother has already done a tour in Iraq.  He was in the 82nd Airborne and is Ranger qualified....

"Waiting" on Comedy Central

I just saw that “Waiting” is premiering on Comedy Central this week.  Do yourself a...

The Clinton's "Big State" myth

The question nobody seems to be asking...

Why were the Feds even looking at Eliot Spitzer when he was in Washington DC?  Is it common practice...

Time Capsule

I just setup my Time Capsule.  I replaced one of the Airport Expresses in my house.  Set up took...