The Economist’s View analyzes the new Fed report: “The key differences from the last Press Release are: 1. They have dropped the word ‘gradual’ from their description of the cooling of the housing market….”
There’s a house for sale in my neighborhood that Zillow values at $533,000. The asking price is $795,000. It’s been on the market for awhile now with no reduction in price.
I’m running the Hillary Clinton site for Top 10 Sources in our new format — very editor-intensive, updated constantly with the best of the web’s content, etc.
That means reading a lot of things about Hillary Clinton, some of which are just plain awful.
It’s not like she’s Paris Hilton (yes, we have a Paris Hilton site done the same way). Paris Hilton’s job is to go out in public and act silly. Hillary’s trying to do something useful and all the public has to say about it is that she looked ugly in her prom picture?
American political discourse makes me want to vomit. Or maybe that’s the leftover barbecue I had for breakfast. Not sure.
Bricolage is the way to do it these days. And for serious mixtures of things that you’d never imagine together, for something that creates an incredible whole out of disparate samples, listen to Girl Talk’s new album Night Ripper. I think I just heard him fade a Nirvana bassline into an Elton John sample which he then overlaid with Biz Markee.
According to a new survey, Americans are increasingly able to tell their own anuses from a hole in the ground.
Via Jalopnik, it’s a bitchin Camaro:
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My boss Halley and I just had a major disagreement. I sent her an IM with the link to the Huffington Post’s parody of the NYT as seen by right-wingers, and she said she wanted me to email it to her. She wanted to send it to a friend, and she couldn’t copy and paste from IM on a Macintosh. I said, what?
She said, there’s no right-click, so how do you copy and paste?
I said, Command-C. She said, what? I said, select the text you want to copy and press Command-C. I mean, you could hold Control while clicking to get the context menu, and she said no no no, I am not going to learn some keyboard shortcut.
I said, it’s the most commonly known keyboard shortcut: Cmd-A for all, Cmd-C for copy, Cmd-X for cut, and Cmd-V for paste. Everyone knows those. People can argue about the intuitiveness Cmd-Alt-Esc for Force Quit, or Cmd-` for switch-windows-within-an-application, but Cmd-C is the most obvious keyboard shortcut in the world.
She said, I want to do it with one finger on a mouse. If I have to use the keyboard I won’t do it.
Which points me to… well… Snakes on Claire Danes:
Bush visits Harley Davidson, extolls free trade, fails to note that H-D is a huge benificiary of protectionist tarrifs.
It’s good to see we’re not losing our sense of humor: Liquids on a Plane movie poster at Defamer.
