Archive for January, 2010
week in review, snl style
since i was remiss in pulling together a week in review last week, i thought i’d share with you the week in review done way better by the folks at snl. i love the “apple debuted something that their other stuff already does.” hope you had a good week last week.
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mess with a bull…
you get the horns. that’s a classic from the breakfast club that i lurv. looks like the people at mcgraw-hill learned this lesson the hard way when they talked too soon about the features of the magical ipad and the veritable boon it would be for publishers. seems that the company’s chief harold mcgraw iii [...]
state of the cookie
in his state of the union address, the president said he’s more proud and more hopeful about the future of the united states than ever before. perhaps this is because he made his girl scout cookie order and in addition to the famed thin mint, he placed an order for the new cookie debuting this [...]
souped-up ipod touch*
most of you have probably already made up your minds on whether to buy the highly anticipated apple ipad or not so i’ll keep this brief and let you get to video of steve jobs introducing the product today. the wifi version will be available in 60 days (mid march) and the 3g version will [...]
you are “tripp”in
despite the role models that have been placed before the altar of virginity (jamie-lynn), new figures revealed that the teen pregnancy rate is at a 16 year high. researchers attribute the rise in knocked-upedness to the proliferation of abstinence-only sex-ed classes popping up all over. the guttmacher institute says that in 2006 there were “71.5 [...]
even a monkey* can do it
make a film that is. the chimpcam project is a new documentary filmed entirely by the chimpanzees at the edinburgh zoo in scotland. primatologist betsy herrelko was interested in learning more about what chimps liked so she gave them a video screen which had the ability for them use a touchscreen to select what they [...]
low tech and lazy
with all the deserved focus on haiti last week, this one may have slipped past your radar senses. the f.b.i. updated the most wanted list and developed a new picture of the world’s most wanted criminal–osama bin laden. they updated his photo to account for changes in age and to show what he may look [...]
