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Ten Beautiful Films You May Not Have Seen

June 30, 2008

The internet is flooded with movie lists. Search for virtually any variety, any theme, any mishmash of tags and qualities and plot twists, and you can find a top 10, top 20, or even top 100 list. The best Top Films list, by my measure, can be found over at They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They […]

I’m on BBC Radio World NewsHour

June 18, 2008

>> If you’d like to take a listen to my latest appearance on BBC Radio – and by latest, I mean the first one in a decade – just give this a turn on your dial, where I debate Daniel Weiss of the Center for American Progress on offshore drilling, energy access, and other related […]

The Top 10 Video Game Ads

June 17, 2008

Video game ads can be, quite frankly, terrible. If you’ve watched any TV appealing to the nerd demographic, you’ve seen them. Horribly forgettable and captive of their genre, they use the same crunching music over and over again, the same jumpy cuts from one FPS kill to the next. Even good games can be made […]

Other Things that Shock Scarlett Johansson

June 13, 2008

Scarlett Johansson is surprised that Barack Obama responds to her emails. As the Politico reports: Johansson is somewhat shocked that he keeps up their back-and-forth correspondence. “You’d imagine that someone like the senator who is constantly traveling and constantly ‘on’–how can he return these personal e-mails?” she asks. The Weekly Standard’s Vic Matus suggests there […]

Latest Oped: Flight of the Obamacons

June 13, 2008

>> My latest oped, on the Flight of the Obamacons, is over at the Washington Times. An excerpt: Mr. Kmiec and his small band of Obamacons are the new Lotophagi, the “Lotus Eaters” of Homer’s Odyssey. When landing on the territory of the cult-like Lotophagi, Ulysses’s crew was given a flower to eat “which was […]

George Will vs. Stephen Colbert

June 9, 2008

>> “The difference between truth and confusion.”

Ruminations on the Perfect Notebook

June 4, 2008

Not those books: these books. The brilliant Michael Lopp’s extensive ruminations on the perfect notebook may seem odd to some, but to people who still can’t get through a day without jotting down their thoughts, it’s an excellent piece: The primary goal of a notebook is to get out of the way… to disappear. It […]

Batman for President

June 4, 2008

That Wii Fit Girlfriend: Nintendo Sexes Up Viral Ads

May 30, 2008

This week, there were more than nine thousand Diggs for this Youtube Vid, “Why every guy should buy their girlfriend a Wii Fit.” The vid itself has over 780,000 views at the time of this posting, and no wonder, since it primarily consists of a t-shirt-and-underwear clad girl gyrating in time with the Wii Fit’s […]

Of Fonts and Presidents

May 29, 2008

This little icanhas-friendly banner was inspired by the announcement yesterday by the McCain campaign that you can create, for a mere $250, a banner expressing your unique satisfaction with John McCain. I’m not sure what to say to this idea, but it reminded me about how aesthetically unappealing presidential campaigns tend to become – their […]

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