Mike Monteiro’s GOP Heroes is predictably awesome

I suppose it was only a matter of time before the ‘Mad Men’ edition suit appeared. Even though the likes of Draper and company would never be so gauche as to, ahem, don such a thing, a sharp Brooks Brothers suit for a thousand bucks is a pretty good deal.

LIFE IS VERY SIMPLE REALLY!!!! BUT SOME OF US HUMANS MAKE A MESS OF IT … REMEMBER AM JUST HERE TO HAVE FUN PARTEEEEEEE.

—Maxi Sopo in one of several Facebook status updates that led to his arrest for bank fraud. Sopo was hiding out in Cancun, Mexico, on the run from authorities who were unable to find him until he friended an assistant US attorney.

To suggest that an Army officer, who has received a medical education at the expense of the government and then seeks to avoid deployment based upon speculation that the President is not a natural born citizen, is equivalent to a young child, who is forced to attend an inferior segregated school based solely on the color of her skin, demonstrates an appalling lack of knowledge of the history of this Country and the importance of the civil rights movement. Counsel’s attempt to align herself with Justice Marshall appears to be an act of desperation rather than one of admiration. For if counsel truly admired Justice Marshall’s achievements, she would not seek to cheapen them with such inapt comparisons.

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U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land, referring to birther lawyer/dentist Orly Taitz and her ridiculous quest to prove that Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen. Land has imposed a $20,000 fine on Taitz for her repeated, merit-less lawsuits.

In this particular passage, Land is admonishing the birther-in-chief for having the gall to compare herself to Thurgood Marshall when he argued the historic Brown v. Board of Education case.

Lebowski bowling pins. Christmas will be here before you know it.

Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned.

—Derek Powazek has some pretty unequivocal advice for search engine optimization. In short: do things the right way, any other advice is, and I’m paraphrasing, bullshit. [via el Gruberino]

As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.

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White House communications director Anita Dunn on the Obama administration’s unwillingness to engage FOX News.

My biggest problem with FOX is their continued and rather flagrant conflating of news and opinion. O’Reilly and Hannity and Beck cheekily insist that they are news analysis programs but their viewers don’t seem to care about the distinction when they rattle off any number of falsehoods to justify their narrow-mindedness. “Fox and Friends” a so-called “entertainment show” is even more dangerous because, other than being staffed by either convenient fools or complete idiots, they blur that distinction beyond recognition.

But that’s the price of going to a museum – sudden and terrible crippling death twitching in the face of historical artifacts. We all have to live with that risk.

—Jason Scott on the possibility of loading a page full of ‘under construction’ animated GIFs crashing your browser. Scott, in the process of archiving Geocities before it shuffles off this mortal coil in a few weeks time, has assembled quite a collection of this once ubiquitous web totem.

Gratuitous video of yourself talking about what it is you do for a living Friday

Mark “Mediashift” Glaser invited me to come chat about hacker journalists a few months ago at Gnomedex. I managed not to ramble too much.

Louis Gerbarg has a great technical breakdown of how iPhone apps compiled from Flash work

Looks like Adobe tiptoed around the SDK rules, made some decisions that will affect performance (like not being able to cache elements) and have a ways to go before performance is acceptable.