The Best of the Rest of the Internet
By Peter "Don't Call Me David" Lynch
Friday, January 29, 2010
Hey, 48 hour party people (because we all strive to go harder, don’t we?), here’s what went down this week on the Web:
Famous People Category: Fever Ray won an award and gave maybe the best acceptance speech ever, “grotesque fancy”, post-next lev, etc. DJ Drama once taunted: “WE GOIN’ AVATAR ON THESE BITCHES……BIGGEST MOVIE EVER!” What he said came true. Pitcher Bill “The Spaceman” Lee, one of Major League Baseball’s freest spirits, weighed in on Andre Dawson’s controversial HOF selection and supplies us with the best quote of the month: “I was really the only commie on the team. They’re all entrepreneurs, capitalists now.”
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Good Years, Bad Years, Hawk, Me, Looking Back
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Andre Dawson, but no other player, was elected to the Hall of Fame in January, and it was announced today he’d go in as an Expo. I was disappointed Roberto Alomar, the overarching athlete of my youth, was not elected, but Dawson’s election and the franchise’s attendant publicity has been pleasant. The week of the election, Tyler Kepner of The New York Times wrote an excellent article about the Expos, a great but difficult read. It has been difficult to look back on the Expos. Dawson stated today he didn’t want to be remembered as one. Indeed, almost everything that went wrong did:
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Jonathan Lee Riches, From Prison
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Jonathan Lee Riches is a federal prisoner nearing the end of a sentence for wire fraud in a medical facility in Kentucky. Along with a nod from Guinness as the world’s most litigious man, he is in possession of what we call a beautiful mind. In his fourth letter to us, Riches begins to open up about his life and quotes Method Man.
Nov 1, 2009
Owen,
Responding back.
Again, sorry this is unorganized. My attention is focused in this Drug Program. I had to write a one page report on why I had expired Honey Buns in my locker from 2006. I tried to explain that I hoard food, because you never know if we will get a nuclear attack and rationing food would be survival. I saw the movie “Empire of the Sun,” and the boy was in search of food in his home.
I remember the Nintendo game Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! If you want the code to get to fight Mike Tyson it’s 007 373 5963. I also remember my ninth grade locker combination: 16-31-6. So if you need something just let me know.
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Citizens on Pol Brown giving Blue State a brand new colorway
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Last Tuesday, Martha Coakley, she of the wooden personality and Curt Schilling mix-up, lost a special election for Ted Kennedy’s vacated Senate seat to Republican Scott Brown, ending Massachusetts’ 30-year run of sending two Democrat senators to Washington. The loss has been roundly rejected as a disaster, but the Commonwealth has known plenty of Republican governors. There is a strong Catholic base there, and, simply put, not everyone in the state is a liberal. The election was called a referendum on health care, but with Massachusetts boasting the most progressive system in the states, it’s hard to say whether this was the case. The New York Times breaks things down in a graphic. We spoke to some citizens,1 asking them their opinion.
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What's under the helmet: Non-Polamalu division
Monday, January 25, 2010
Joe Buck: See Tracy Porter…
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Children's Show host is everywhere if you're thirsty
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Xuxa (above, left) is best known as the children’s show performer in Brazil. Generations of South American children grew up watching her shows and listening to her records, though she never really did well in North America. Unlike most children’s show hosts, she posed for Playboy in 1982, dated Pele and Ayrton Senna, the F-1 racer, and allegedly had sex with a kid in a movie. She is everywhere in Brazil and is worth over a quarter of a billion dollars. She was spotted in Brazil hawking beverages both healthy and non-, knowingly and unknowingly:
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The Best of the Rest of the Internet, halfway through January
Friday, January 15, 2010
How’s everyone doing? Hope you didn’t terribly mind the absence, we were just preparing for the new (now released) Cam’ron mixtape. You know, re-painting the house, installing new wainscoting, ordering new ponytails, stuff like that. I treated it like we were having guests over. But we are back, in earnest, and next week will bring (moderately) full content. So let’s get to the best of the rest of the ‘net.
The greatest tweet ever? A: Yes.
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Volume One, Episode Two: Yahoo, Mozilla could temper Google's continuing ascent
By Jay Schroeder
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Jay Schroeder is a regular contributor to Trumbull, and had things to say about Google in his last go-round. Funny enough, The New York Times is leading its technology page with a story on the Google phone. If you want to argue with him, he can be contacted by e-mail and Twitter.
Throughout history, some of the strongest alliances have been forged by those with little in common but a common enemy. Do you think Hitler was down with the Japanese? I doubt it. But he worked with them. Do you think the owners in baseball all get along? Nope. But none of them liked Barry Bonds, once he broke the record, and he sat. And so it is with alliances in the Valley.
Google has been making some new enemies for itself lately, with expansions into things beyond the Internet search. Google Chrome (the browser) and Google Chrome OS (coming this year for netbooks) put a lot of pressure on the Mozilla people, who make the Firefox browser. And with the new Android OS, Google isn’t making any friends with Apple, Microsoft, or Palm. (But Palm won’t matter soon, they’ll be bankrupt.) And of course, Google has its enemies in the search world, mostly Yahoo. I’m going to focus on Yahoo and Mozilla, and suggest how they might be able to succeed against the formidable offerings of Google.
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One Day Only: We Deliver Recife's Best Burguers to You
Monday, January 4, 2010
Gretings frm Brazil -(STOP)-
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