Because we all know where black teenage males in the hood get their inspiration from — famous middle‐aged people. I’ll never forget when I was a kid and everyone was in those Cosby sweaters… man, that was a hot‐ass summer.
Jesse Taylor
Category: Tumbles
Quoth Michael Arrington: “Kind of takes the air out of the balloon when you can’t get them riled up.” In other words: the answer is still yes.
When writers purport to educate readers about complex matters, and they are arguably wrong, I think The Times cannot label it opinion and let it go at that.
Clark Hoyt, New York Times Ombudsman
People who write about very specific things, I’ve found, often have the most interesting things to say. Steven Levithan writes Flagrant Badassery, which covers JavaScript and regular expressions. Steven’s XRegExp library does some killer stuff that the native JS RegExp does not; at only 2.4KB, it’s a must‐have for grepping and/or parsing on the client side.
Gabe essentially began anti‐anxiety medication and planned a trip for Paris in the same week, possibly even in the same moment, and as an observer — it is literally my job to observe — this was an intriguing process. He wasn’t yet ensorcelled by the chemical, and yet with full awareness of his own agony he went through the previously unthinkable process of putting all this together. It must have been something like jumping from a plane with a strange backpack and a pamphlet entitled “Your Parachute.”
Penny Arcade
Chris Mills looks at Dragonfly, Opera’s new Firebug‐ish developer panel. It’s not Firebug, but it’s much closer thereto than the competition from IE and Safari.
Mark says it best, once again. Mozilla’s absence from the Cannonball Run–style race to comply with Acid 3 was disappointing. They’d have come in third place, but that’s not the point. If you play, you win. If you make excuses, grumble about the rubric, or quibble over minutiae, you lose.
It’s never an encouraging sign when a film about the murder of John Lennon has audiences rooting for the climactic shooting, just so a dreary, sordid, worthless film will come to a merciful end.
The Onion A.V. Club
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I’ve begun to suspect that Mike Gravel’s run at the presidency is just a cleverly disguised experiment in conceptual art.
Patrick Appel