Dive into the archives.
- Reality television
TV ratings are hurting as much as stock market values in the US, in a sure sign people prefer real reality television over the made-up variety.
- The US election online: webby tricks and tweets
Twitter and the Economist have some interesting ways to reflect opinions in the runup to the US Presidential election
- Time: how we became the United States of France
Bill Saporito’s rant in Time magazine - about how the USA has become a bit sub-France - raises a smile
- Banking: happier days*
See some old 1980s TV ads for British banks, including TSB and Halifax. Ah, the memories.
- Best Western responds to those hack claims
Best Western have responded to claims that the details of 8m customers were stolen, saying there’s “no evidence” for the Sunday Herald’s “sensational” story.
- [Updated] Best Western hacked - 8m people should [maybe] be nervous
Sunday Herald reports that credit card, address and booking details of 8m people have been compromised after the hotel chain’s computers were hacked.
- See Barack roll
Only three days after you saw it somewhere else first…
I’m just pleased we live in an age where this kind of thing is possible. (Via Bob Mitchell in the 21st Century)
- Existential angst in fitba’s theatre of the absurd
A football fan successfully sues for “existential damages” after he saw some nasty banners, and heard some nasty chants. Paul Sturrock should be grateful he lives in Britain.
- On board the Qantas jet that popped a hole at 30,000 feet
At first glance, mobile footage from inside the stricken plane isn’t that dramatic. But it gives you a taste of how quiet and orderly real horror can be.
- “While Obama was wowing them in Berlin, McCain was knocking over apple sauce jars in supermarkets. Hello, Tipping Point…”
Hugh MacLeod’s pithy political commentary on Twitter, this morning.
[Update, 1600:] Since I’m getting a lot - a lot - of Google traffic on the search term “McCain Applesauce“, I feel honour-bound to refer you to a story which explains what Hugh’s comment was about. Here’s the Newsweek take. In brief:
“When John McCain descended on a Bethlehem, [...]
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