January 2009
17 posts
oldeenglish:
This is almost the perfect news story. It has racism, sweets, a plane crash, man-on-the-street interviews, and Obama. If there was a little sex and a new product from Apple, it might have been the last news story I ever needed.
-dave
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. The sublime opening theme (“Shame, shame, SHAAAME!”); the repetition of the...
1,474-Megapixel Photo of President Obama’s... →
Very cool — it’s pan- and zoomable, so you can explore the photo like a Google map. (Clarence Thomas is asleep!) Here’s how it was done — use the full screen version for the best effect.
Infinite Flash preloader →
Praise this world, Rilke says, the jerk.
We’d stay up all night. Every angel’s...
– An absolutely ridiculous poem in this week’s New Yorker