May 2009
“Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor helped crush the dreams of a teenage girl last year by joining in a ruling that let a school punish a student for calling its superintendent a “douche bag” on her blog.”
—Gawker - Sonia Sotomayor Hates Bloggers - Sonia sotomayor
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“Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher who spent seven years in jail for raping her 13-year-old student, is hosting a “Hot for a Teacher” night at a Seattle bar. Vili Fualaau, her former student and father of her two children, is spinning records for the event.”
—Jezebel - Don’t Stand So Close - mary kay letourneau
Tracy Jordan's Best Lines From This Season OF "30 Rock" [UPDATED] →
huffingtonpost.com
my fav Tracy Jordan quote is ” “OK. Sorry it took me so long to answer. I was just thinking about how weird it is that we eat birds.”“
RunPee.com →
runpee.com
RunPee.com tells you when is the best part of a movie to leave the theater and go use the bathroom. Includes the option to view a synopsis of the scene you’ll be missing.
Parents turn to cell phones as high-tech rattles - washingtonpost.com →
washingtonpost.com
TaulPaul’s daugters are featured in today’s Washington Post article on kids and gadgets.
Three Clips from Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ →
ropeofsilicon.com
Those who already saw it in Cannes say it’s really good…
Half Vulcan, Half Rapper TuSpock's "Highly Illogical" →
digg.com
By Jimmy Fallon and The Roots.
“British physicist Stephen Wolfram today officially launched his new, massively-hyped search engine, Wolfram Alpha. Now for the inevitable letdown; and for the hard questions more journalists should have been asking weeks ago.”
—Gawker - Wake Us When Wolfram Alpha Can Solve an Actual Problem - Stephen Wolfram
Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com →
lens.blogs.nytimes.com
NYT Launches a photo blog.
Early Buzz: Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist →
slashfilm.com
“easily one of the biggest debacles in Cannes Film Festival history and the complete meltdown of a major film artist” … “There’s no way Antichrist isn’t a major career embarassment for costars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and a possible career stopper for Von Trier.” ouch.
“Target is asking all Facebook members to visit www.facebook.com/Target and help decide how 10 national charities will receive a portion of the retail giant’s $3 million in weekly charitable giving.”
—Target, Facebook team up for charity
“The only hipsters I hate are the motherfuckers who write quasi-intellectual hate email to me. I get so many messages that are like, “Fuck you, man. You’re the hipster…You’re using a false term to describe something that’s just a social construct.” Okay, I get it, you went to college. What do you want from me? A grade? You want me to grade your email? ‘F’ There. You get an F. Go away. Everyone went to college.”
—Gawker - The Self-Loathing Creator of ‘Look At This Fucking Hipster’ Speaks
