Trent Reznor explains how Ticketmaster and Live Nation are going to screw you over even more
Well written, clear piece on the problem with big ticket live shows. Basically, Ticketmaster could stop scalping but there’s too much money for them to lose and they’re likely to simply skip the…
Fake twitter gets it so right it hurts
No mean feat, indeed
You’re just stuck waiting until you’ve had 17 fights with your new girlfriend, and that’s the only time that you can even start comparing her to your old girlfriend.
—Saleem breaks down the rule of 17 fights.
Adam gets positively Gruber-esque over a preposition and I love it.
For what it’s worth, I use “within” because I’m fancy like that.
Any economy which charges ever less for ever more intrusive ads will eventually be successful not in creating wealth but in driving the readers away, until the only ones left to heed the ads are all the other ads, the cell phones searching in vain for a target market among the cellulite.
—Mandy Brown, on advertising
Pantscast - For Serious Audiophiles Only.
I’ve tested this on You Look Nice Today and it didn’t seem to work. Unless all of those odd sounds weren’t actually being generated by Merlin…
The issue of the President’s citizenship was raised, vetted, blogged, texted, twittered, and otherwise massaged by America’s vigilant citizenry during Mr. Obama’s two-year-campaign for the presidency, but this plaintiff wants it resolved by a court.
—This country needs more lawyers and judges who are this smart. The case was summarily dismissed in what can best be described as a legal pantsing.
Audio Hand Puppet BETA is released.
A product of three of my oft-starred tweeps, @sween, @baileygenine and @luckyshirt. Why aren’t you listening already?
Ok ok. Mom’s upset that I was rude at Pres speech re:tweets.For the record I tweeted bfor,at very begining,& after speech.I wanted to listen
—Well, it’s good to know that Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) mom reads and takes issue with her tweets as well. SEE, MOM, I COULD BE A SENATOR!
TechCrunch hardly count as “journalists” or “the press” by any reasonable definition. They’re a tabloid masquerading as a legitimate news outlet, a sort of Drudge Report for nerds; they lack even the sense of humor of actual tech industry tabloids like Valleywag. While TechCrunch may have started out as a blog, free of the restrictions and expectations of traditional journalism, their content is now syndicated by the Washington Post. TechCrunch’s is one of the most widely-heard voices in technology reporting. This should be considered an embarrassment to our industry.
—Alex Payne, lamenting the sorry state of tech journalism. Could not agree more.