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Teabaggers

Charges: America’s dumbest and most racist citizens finally found a cause they could all get behind that isn’t pro wrestling or NASCAR. The Lolcats of protest sign grammar, they think scare quotes actually make things scary (e.g. ‘Obama is a “communist”’). They don’t understand that they’re duped showpieces for billionaires who threaten their freedom and prosperity far more than their beloved nemesis, Big Gubmint. And their instant escalation from complacent couch potatoes to rhetorical revolutionaries just happened to coincide with the election of a black Democrat with the middle name Hussein. What are the chances?

Exhibit A: They called it Teabagging first.

Sentence: To star in an extremely patriotic, live ammunition reenactment the Battle of Bunker hill.

—The Beast’s 50 most loathsome Americans is back for 2009.

Saying I have a blog and am therefore more comfortable sharing photos of my kids is like saying that because I opened the front door for the UPS guy, I’m probably also cool with him secretly installing a webcam in my shower.

—Dave Pell, on the very excellent Tweetage Wasteland, a catalog of thoughts on the emerging social and real-time web, on why he never tells Zuckerberg anything. Great advice if you ask me.

chumblespuzz:

Dina Goldstein’s Fallen Princesses

_ Fallen Princesses _ places Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The “…happily ever after” is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.

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This pretty well sums up my entire frustration with the president’s “debate” with the Republican caucus (full video). I sort of expected that most of them would fire off a bunch of half-assed “are you still beating your wife” type questions, I didn’t think they’d burn up the whole hour doing so.

And while I’m at it, would someone please tell the Republicans that the proper adjective form of “Democrat” is, in fact, “Democratic”, as in “the Democratic party”. It’s not “the Democrat party” and snarling that slur does nothing more than make the user sound like a rube lacking a basic command of the english language. I realize that actually plays pretty well to the right-wing base but it’s your job to communicate, at least try to get the basics right.

“His sartorial attempt to blend in with the concrete did little to assuage the tension.”

This is my favorite of unhappy hipsters so far.

I was expecting something a little different from the title – the site is more like yuppies filled with ennui. I imagine unhappy hipsters to be more about anorexic brooklynite big-glassed boys struggling to fit into their skinny jeans or angsting over which scarf looks best with their ironic lumberjack coat. Still, this is good.

[Hat tip to Mr. Greg Storey]

The New Yorker has all thirteen of the short stories Salinger published there online

You’ll need to be a subscriber but you get to see the article as they actually appeared, which is really quite amazing, if not terribly legible.

iCan’t believe it! It’s now at the online Apple Store! $400 for an Mp3 Player! I’d call it the Cube 2.0 as it wont sell, and be killed off in a short time…and it’s not really functional. Uuhh Steve, can I have a PDA now? [Edited by elitemacor on 10-23-2001 at 02:33 PM]

—From the Mac Rumors (lol!) thread after the original iPod was announced. Sure, it’s unsporting to smugly smile years after-the-fact but that doesn’t make it any less fun. [via Timoni]

J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author, Dies at 91

Charles McGrath’s obituary in the New York Times.

You’re all right and smarter than me to boot so I won’t flog the newspaper of the future demands any more. I ain’t so well-spoken as a Mrgan or a Gruber anyhow.

As exciting as turning the publishing world upside down is, there seems to have been scant attention paid to the other thing about the tablet I’m pretty excited about: multitouch for your computer.

Sure, the tablet itself is going to have a slick, high-fidelity haptic interface that’ll let you swipe pages and flip widgets, etc, but I want all this on my computer. And I want the tablet to bring it. Forget touch screen iMacs, that idea’s as dumb as it is obvious, give me something that augments my keyboard and mouse and makes interacting with my computer just a little more natural. Make all of that Cover Flow stuff, currently a vaguely interesting toy, actually useful. 10/GUI without all the boring. Add a pen if you need to do something with all of the handwriting tech you’ve been bottling up but make using all of my fingers the exciting part. I never wanted to lick OS X but I do want to touch it.

My iPhone just sits at my desk all day, charging, my tablet (palette? canvas?) could actually be doing something.

And while I’m on a tablet-as-accessory kick, what if the tablet is also an accessory to your iPhone? I already carry the phone around with me everywhere, it’s already got a big hard drive and connectivity, the tablet could just tether off all of that.