TV producer Chuck Lorre uses the two second “vanity cards” displayed at the end of shows he produces to publish short essays on whatever he feels like. You can only read the essays if you pause the shows on your DVR. One recent card discussed the then upcoming WSJ article about Lorre’s essay. If that [...]
A blog for Tivo users
May 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The investigative humorist
April 30th, 2008 · No Comments
How does The Daily Show find all of those amazing clips of politicians saying stupid and contradictory thing? By tapping into the mind of one guy who has been with the show since the beginning. The Washington Post profiles Adam Chodikoff, the video producer for the show. It’s amazing what he does, when you think [...]
Links for April 8
April 8th, 2008 · No Comments
gourmet.com: Betting the Farm. Great article on agriculture policy and how one family farm in South Dakota is bucking the trend of cashing in on ethanol money and government subsidies. Rogers Cadenhead: Washington Post Wins Another Phony Pulitzer. I loved the Washington Post article about the violinist planted in the DC subway, but Rogers argues that [...]
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Links from March 16th and 17th
March 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Paul Krugman: How close are we to a liquidity trap? google-collections is a Java library that builds on the Java collections framework. It’s listed as an alpha product but has apparently been in use in production systems at Google for years. My guess is that Josh Bloch is the creator. Turns out there’s an Acknowledgements page [...]
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How I watch football
February 12th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Today I read Dr. Z’s annual ratings of football broadcasters and realized that I don’t really have a strong opinion of any of them in particular and that I have a mild distaste for all of them.
Fortunately, I’ve come up with a method of watching football that eliminates the announcers almost entirely. The key is [...]
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David Simon is wrong about the news
January 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
One assertion I’ve seen David Simon make in multiple places is that newspapers blew it by not charging for online access to their content when they could.
I think he’s just wrong about that, as does former newspaperman Scott Rosenberg:
I always saw print journalism as doomed. I loved it anyway, the way you might [...]
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