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“The media became an echo chamber for White House pronouncements. One example: At President Bush’s March 6, 2003, news conference, in which he made it eminently clear that the United States was going to war, one reporter pleased the ‘born again’ Bush when
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Yes, he cried, because he realized that his popularity rating was so incredibly low that he’d have to do a photo op and mug compassionately for the camera. The kid is amazing; it’s just sad he has to pose with someone like Dubya.
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“Reddit is now Reddit permanently. I’ll admit the name has one advantage: when people ask me where I heard something, I find myself naturally saying ‘I read it on Reddit.’”
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“And when we opened up the back of the truck and they saw that it was full of Bibles … grown men and women wept in front of their children.” Continues the missionary: “That’s how moved they were by the Holy Spirit.”
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Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington: “For the government to actually physically have those hard drives from a newsroom is amazing. I’m just flabbergasted to hear of this.”
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“Hold down the Option key and drag the song file into an empty spot in the Source column. iTunes will create a new playlist containing the dragged song, but it will not add it to the library. When you’re done listening, just delete the playlist.”
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“[The director] made ‘movies that are often more like symbolist poems or obscure fetishistic rituals,’ wrote [..] the New York Review of Books. ‘They are not so much frightening as unnervingly strange and shot through with a palpable melancholy.’”
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“One ambitious cab driver helped make all this happen when, in an effort to end customer confusion, he and others surveyed 1,000 passengers. They all basically said they couldn’t understand the current lighting system. The determined driver is still not t
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“At approximately 4:20 p.m. EST, the sun began to lower from its position in the sky in a westward trajectory [...] until 5:46 p.m. PST, when the entire North American mainland was officially declared dark.”
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“… the World’s Toughest Animal. You can shoot them into space, take them to the deepest ocean depths and let them go, deprive them of air, water, and food for years and they don’t care. Send them into the core of nuclear reactor. They’ll be fine.”
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“At Turn Your Head, we fill the space between two opposing profiles of your face. By spinning that space into a three dimensional “visage” that follows the outlined silhouettes of your two profiles, we create the ‘Pirolette’.”
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The user selects mutations that look promising in his eyes, and the application uses that selection to generate another set of mutations, continuing in that fashion until the user is satisfied with what he sees.
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“But can anyone explain to me how the hell it’s WRONG for me to have just links to other sites that are now mirroring the map page that used to exist here? If all ISP’s took that line, then the whole internet could be accused of being in the ‘wrong’!”
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“Sensing an opportunity to experiment and play a joke on his friends, the self-described ‘Google fanboy’ decided to see what would happen if he submitted a fake Google press release claiming the 15-year old New Jersey student was Google’s youngest employe
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“Unaware of his cargo’s import, the boy, in cavalier teenage fashion, put work on hold to eat pancakes at a diner, hang out with his friends and flirt with waitresses.”
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“The video, which surfaced on You Tube but has since been removed and can now be found on Google Video, pokes fun at Microsoft’s tendency toward cluttered packaging by imagining how the company would have designed the box for the original iPod.”
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“The findings indicate that two proteins that normally help repair cellular DNA can also destroy the DNA made by HIV after it enters a human cell.”
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“Given a date, AJ can recall with astonishing accuracy what she was doing on that date and what day of the week it was.”
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“It’s hard for abstract nouns to surrender. In fact it’s very hard for abstract nouns to do anything at all of their own volition - even trained philologists can’t negotiate with them. It’s difficult to find their hide-outs, useless to try to cut off thei
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Boy, this guy just seems like the nicest guy ever to get along with.
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“Live music was part of the Potbelly experience [...] and has been incorporated into all but one of its stores.” Where, for God’s sake, is that one store? If I hear one more caterwauling singer who’s obviously not getting other gigs for a REASON …
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“Ambien seems to unlock a primitive desire in some patients to eat [..] the drug’s users sometimes sleepwalk into their kitchens, claw through their refrigerators and consume calories ranging into the thousands.”
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“The curtain went down. The heat death of the universe played out in one last resounding note, the final dénouement to the performance.”
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“FindLaw’s Michael Dorf advised the Congressman that ‘Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution specifies that a bill becomes a law when passed by both house of Congress and signed by the President. S. 1932 was not passed by the House of Representatives. T
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“After becoming a figure of derision, she quit her Pentagon job and now sells bratwurst at her German deli in Middleburg, Va.”
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“[The original] ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which removed the humans [capitalists], leaving only the nasty pigs [Communists].”
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“‘I haven’t read it,’ demurred Barack Obama (Ill.). ‘I just don’t have enough information,’ protested Ben Nelson (Neb.). ‘I really can’t right now,’ John Kerry (Mass.) said as he hurried past a knot of reporters.”
