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Since I don’t seem to have any waffle mix, I’ll use the time I saved by eating a bowl of Peanut Butter Crunch to put together some of the flotsam and jetsam of the Six Degrees of Stephen Colbert universe. Eric Drysdale (former writer, ‘The Colbert Report’, “Bobby”) Eric has announced more gigs over at his blog : Variety SHAC Thursday, October 2 9:30 PM, $5.00 Shonali Bhowmik, Heather Lawless, Andrea...
Each week I've been attempting to put together snippets of stuff that hit my radar. Most of the things are little tidbits of stories that don't land in other pieces I'm working on. Or they might be flotsam and jetsam that's simply entered into my consciousness. Either way, this week I seem to have collected quite the cacophony of crazy crap. So strap in....
As part of Google's tenth anniversary, the company has partnered with the Internet Archive to offer a slice of the World Wide Web circa 2001 — the oldest available archive of the company's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A MYSTERIOUS mast that washed up at Schoenmakerskop in the giant storm two weeks ago should be protected and exhibited on site as part of a new “shipwreck trail”.
The popular Kingdom Hearts Formation Arts series of toys from Square Enix reaches its third volume with another colorful assemblage of characters as follows: Minnie Mouse - Princess incarnation with Chip and Dale on both sides Ursula - Wields a gold trident and is accompanied by Flotsam and Jetsam Axel - Mounts a twisty building and appears ready to strike with chakram Pete - Stands aloof in his blue...
BoardBuzz admits to being a compulsive websurfer in the morning. Give us a cup of coffee and broadband, and we are ready to scan the world, picking up the flotsam and jetsam of presidential polls, late baseball scores, and various attempts to put lipstick on a pig. So we were intrigued when we came across an article the Chronical of Higher Education entitled Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind . Wha'?...
The 34th installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums and songs, comes from writer Dan LeRoy, author of The Greatest Music Never Sold and the 33 1/3 book on the Beastie Boys classic Paul’s Boutique. Dan offers thought-provoking insight on an album [...]
One of the most exciting performers in the electronic music underground–his gig at last year’s Pitchfork Music Festival set off a veritable frenzy–laptop composer Gregg Gillis is arguably as significant for his politics as he is for his unbelievably dense, incredibly enjoyable musical pastiches. And the 26-year-old biomedical engineer has topped himself on both fronts [...]
I have stated - not tongue in cheek - that “I am an ignorant man,” and I have also added that “I am a man still in need of a Savior.” These things do not change on a pilgrimage but become only clearer. The most difficult of all pilgrimages is the pilgrimage to the heart [...]
If influential blogs -- say, Drudge, Daily Kos, National Review Online or Talking Points Memo -- go out and say "X, Y and Z," it's now assumed then "the media" is saying "X, Y and Z".
HERE ARE SOME quick hits from the world of Japanese politics: October election? Appearing on NHK and other network television programs on Sunday, Liberal-Democratic Party Secretary General Aso Taro, the odds-on favorite to replace Fukuda Yasuo as prime minister, hinted that a lower house election could come as early as next month. Mr. Aso said the government was [...]
If you are a renter and pay taxes, congratulations - you are now experiencing homeownership, and it’s not a pretty sight. In a great article by Gretchen Morgenstern of the New York Times called: The Joys of Ownership Make no mistake: we, the American taxpayers, are amassing quite a portfolio of flotsam and [...]
It's been another busy week, and another busy weekend. Yesterday I was off down to see my folks - the primary purpose of the visit (apart from catching up of course) was to help them set up their broadband. Mission accomplished, my parents finish their migration to the twenty-first century. We did it online using their dial-up 46kbps connection... it would have been quicker to do it by phone!
While the country braces for the remainder of a busy hurricane season that ends in two months, the economy will continue to be battered by "tempestuous" market forces beyond 2008, a top Federal Reserve official said Thursday.
