NY's Funniest Rabbi (Free subscription) | yesterday
A. Kindly forgive me If I state the Obvious Rav Nachman was wise B. Forgive me again It seems to me that his pain was his great weapon C. Great pain brings great growth If you Listen and work it There's no other way A wounded healer Is such a thing possible? Maybe only such VETECHEZENEH G-d lift up our eyes To redemption woven through Our darkest days Pain pain go away I only knew rainy days So I used...
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Filed under: MobileMe MobileMe has been off to a rough start. The mail outages aren't good and giving people free time to use a service that doesn't work is a cold comfort. Sadly, the bad news just keeps coming for MobileMe. Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, is generally an Apple fan but he isn't gaga for MobileMe. Even discounting the amount of trouble Apple...
Nobody's Business (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008 | Other
Are all companies that sell search engine optimization services swindlers and crooks, as I've heard? Surely not, but my own experiences with a firm called eBoost Media quickly turned surreal, so I'd like to share the saga here — and in return invite your wisdom. Let me cut right to the heart of the bizarreness: on Friday evening, I received an anonymous voice-mail rant from an EBoost Media customer...
Knicks Knacks (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s pretty Obvious why David Lee is so darn popular in these parts. He shows up. Lee finished up a workout this afternoon, then spent time at Pace University where the Knicks were conducting a summer camp for 140 kids. It’s part of his routine. He’s normally just a phone call away when the organization needs somebody [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago | Technology
Fresh off their launch of Facebook Connect at their second developer conference, the social networking company is going to launch a mobile version of the Facebook Connect this fall, Jed Stremel, director of mobile for Facebook, said in a chat today. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is going to release the code of their entire [...]
Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday | Entertainment
Were those production assistants for Top Chef bringing cameras and equipment into 20 Bayard on Karl Fischer Row the other day? Well, a sign in one of their vans said "Magical Elves," which is a production company works for Bravo...
Cuz We Said So (Free subscription) | yesterday
Too early? I know I'll be waiting in line on March 6 when this thing opens. (Hopefully at midnight the night before.) I am, admittedly, a big fan of the DC graphic novel on which this film is based. Looking...
Webloggin (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama, faker, spoke in Germany today and tried to ride the coat tails of a truly great man by lifting themes from President Ronald Reagan’s famous wall speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Germany. In fact Barack Obama was so blatant in his attempts to appear Reaganesque that he attempted to deliver his speech [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008 | Politics
***UPDATED BELOW*** During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the "surge" strategy in Iraq. In an interview with anchor Katie Couric, the Arizona Republican said, inaccurately, that the surge strategy was responsible for the much-touted "Anbar Awakening," in which Sunni sheiks turned against Al Qaeda, helping in turn...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I've know Rogier van Bakel for over 15 years. He wrote for Wired when I was an editor there, and he's also written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Christian Science Monitor, Reason magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Playboy. Here's an interesting story from Rogier about his experience with eBoost, a search engine optimization company. He asked me to share it with Boing Boing's readers:...
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Got mad at myself this morning when I was out walking around and as I sometimes do when I’m mad at myself and alone I started to tell myself off in no uncertain terms. Out loud. I was giving myself a pretty stern talking to and I had worked my way about halfway through my list of reasons why I’m an idiot before I realized this conversation wasn’t taking place inside my head. What shut me up was the...
neo-neocon (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Obama was arrogant to begin with, but it seems that the adulation he has gotten from the press and the public in his race towards anointment as Democratic Presidential nominee has driven him and his crew to new heights of self-admiration. I don’t think the proper word is “narcissism” in this case; it’s megalomania. Here’s [...]
Overcoming Bias (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Bad news often has self-fulfilling prophesy effects. Tell a student his work is bad and he might give up. Telling friends someone is unpopular makes her even less popular. Tell a sport team they will lose and they might not...
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Both Bryan Caplan and David Friedman think the purpose of boarding pass numbers is to get the people on the plane more quickly. They both want the people in the back to get on first. They are surprised that the...
Guest Music Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Tea Club sounds like a perfectly innocent and unassuming name but do not let the serene CD cover and band name fool you. As you will learn when you open up the General Winter’s Secret Museum CD the sleeve enclosed and the artwork does get a bit more interesting and the lyrics are included [...]
