You remember back in The Dark Ages when George W. Bush was president? You Googled “miserable failure” and President Bush’s White House biography was the…
Last night I watched an episode of Arrested Development on Hulu. Before it started, I was presented with a choice: would I like to watch…
One of the big advantages liberals have in the culture at large is that most writers and journalists–even if they’re not political writers per se–are…
Daniel brought this to my attention a few days ago, but I didn’t have a chance to comment on it until today; it looks like…
We all remember Mark Foley. He flirted with underage Congressional pages online, resigned when this came out, and contributed in no small part to the…
Via Telmah Parsa at The Daily Beast, the latest out of Iran is evidence of the impossibility of sustaining a culture in which sexual relations…
The Secret Service is going to have to pry Obama’s Blackberry from his cold, dead hands:
“I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,” Mr. Obama said…
Michael Hirschorn has a ridiculous article on the future of The New York Times in The Atlantic. He starts out the piece saying that the…
SoapBlox, which hosts a large number of a progressive blogs, including some big ones like Pam’s House Blend, is folding following a major hacker attack…
LifeHacker reports:
The good news: CNET has sources saying the three largest music labels will allow Apple to offer music downloads free of copy-protection. And…
Slate has a piece today on the steps that wannabe-politicians can take to make sure that their Facebook pages don’t result in damaging revelations about…
xkcd’s Randall Munroe has up a blog post listing some search terms that led to zero hits on Google, and some others that, unfortunately for…
James Surowiecki has an interesting column in this week’s issue of The New Yorker which says, among other things, that one of the fatal fault…
Jesse wrote on Thursday about “Open for Questions,” the Obama transition team’s Web 2.0 effort to allow visitors to Change.gov to vote on what questions…
So, my reason for living/favorite blog Gawker and all its sister sites launched a new redesign yesterday. As they say, it is meant to make…
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