This is too bad. I just discovered this show two weeks ago and thought it was hilarious. If you have Netflix you can watch it over instant streaming.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

The Bright Pill would have to be taken a week in advance, which should encourage deliberate, planned, safer sex. And it should be well received by religiously observant Jews. According to Jewish law, castration of any animal - human or non-human - is forbidden; not to mention that ‘spilling seed’ or ejaculating outside the female body is not permitted.

Also, for Jewish women who are allergic to the pill, the Breitbart solution provides more freedom in family planning, says the professor.

Because who wants to wear a condom?

This thread is gold.

Like this one.

Her: So this girl I know likes this guy I know but he’s been oblivious to all of her signals, so what does she have to do to tell him she likes him?
Me: I don’t know, just tell him she likes him?
Her: Like, “I like you?” Just like that?
Me: Yeah, like that.
Her: I like you.
Me: Yeah, tell her to tell him that, and she’ll be all set.
pause
Her: …I like you.
Me: Yup, you’ve got it… was there anything else?

He tells The Times of Malta, “Depeche Mode are not ABBA or Queen. The story can’t be a happy one. It is a story of two boys growing up, coming of age and discovering love. They are abused, used, taken advantage of. It’s their sad way of discovering life.

This guy takes Depeche Mode very seriously.

It’s alive! - Rdio

This at least shows that the people behind Rdio care. Compare that with Mog, who just seem to be happy putting ads wherever they can on their site, like they’ve forgotten it’s supposed to be about music.

Thomas Edison

Wow - this Edison guy is a moron.

TMO Interviews Rogue Amoeba: It’s All About the Audio | WWDC | The Mac Observer

Interesting how much software exists because the official way of doing things isn’t satisfying to some people.

• Last.fm scrobblers / radio players
• Radium
• GarageSale
• Marsedit
• Every Twitter client
• Everything that syncs with Google Reader

It seems to always have to do with web services. Spotify’s player provides a better experience than Mog mostly because of software. Mog is just a floating browser window.

Seems like software will be here for a while yet.

The claim is, given all the expenses, Pandora won’t break even this year.

My claim is that I think some of those numbers, particularly capital expenditures, misc, data center, and employees, are guesses. So they don’t really know for sure WTF is going on - just that a story like this gets clicks, and if you click on this you’re more likely to know about Michael Robertson’s new project than if you didn’t.

Yo dawg, I herd you like comments so I put a like button on comments so you can like the comment of a comment you like!

It was our fourth visit in a month to the Maine Pediatrics Clinic in Portland, but I was only just beginning to grasp what the doctors were telling me—that Alex suffered from central precocious puberty, a condition where sexual maturation happens before age 11 in boys and 10 in girls.

Somebody who takes the “Terrorist Hunting Permit” bumper sticker seriously and doesn’t just use it as an empty gesture on his truck.

DENVER – An American man has been detained in the mountains of Pakistan after local authorities found him carrying a sword, pistol and night-vision goggles on a Rambo-style solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.

wonderbreakdofsin on Reddit

Oh this is ridiculous hey wait yeah what the hell why not?

Looks like they’re remaking this.

Fiction in the Age of E-Books - Magazine - The Atlantic

Paul Theroux on e-readers increasing access to literature

Whoah whoah! Wait a second. Google has a homepage?!

Linda Holmes on Soprano Renee Fleming Turns To Rock And Pop With ‘Dark Hope’ : NPR

Fleming covers Death Cab For Cutie, Muse, Arcade Fire, Peter Gabriel, and others. This will probably do well if only on sales of the Hallelujah cover.

Since everything is mass-produced, and often for a mass audience, finding and consuming things which appeal to your desire for authenticity is what moves these items and artists and services up from the bottom to the top – where it can be mass consumed.

Hipsters, then, are the direct result of this cycle of indie, authentic, obscure, ironic, clever consumerism.

Which is ironic – but not like a trucker hat or Pabst Blue Ribbon. It is ironic in the sense the very act of trying to run counter to the culture is what creates the next wave of culture people will in turn attempt to counter.

I think of this wave whenever I see an old person get into a car playing jazz music. Imagine your future self, in your 70s, getting into a car playing Smells Like Teen Spirit over the radio. What was once new and dangerous, like 90s Alternative or Rap, will sound boring to future generations, like some Jazz music today.

It’s hard to imagine glee club coach Will Schuester giving his students a tough speech on how they can’t do mash-ups anymore because of copyright law (but if he did, it might make people rethink the law). Instead, copyright violations are rewarded in Glee — after Sue’s Physical video goes viral, Olivia Newton-John contacts Sue so they can film a new, improved video together.

By all accounts Deadly Premonition is a terrible game; it has the graphical fidelity of a Dreamcast title, as well as middling sound design and game play, but if I am truly honest with myself, it is probably the best game I have played in years.

Because it’s much better to give your money to Exxon.

The iPad effectively weans away any consumption tasks from the desktop without breaking a sweat. That leaves the desktop with just one thing. Production. I write a lot. I design. I research. It’s different for everyone, but work is work. Cheng calls for a restructuring of how we use our computers. At least that’s my interpretation of his article. To create a habit around an environment, such that our memory associates it with that kind of task. The moment you’re at your desk, you naturally begin your work (and not ‘ease into it’ by looking through the Tumblr Dashboard).

Make no mistake, Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a game-design clinic. In spirit, it’s no different from the first Super Mario Bros., which is now 25 years old. Rescuing the princess is incidental. The point is pure play — it’s all about moving through virtual space to reach a destination. The graphics have improved, and Mario wears more funny hats these days, but at heart he hasn’t changed at all. That’s the attraction. It’s also the problem.

While the Average Joe reader is sat at home today, thrilled that this new feature provides him with a unified, tasteful reading experience (albeit one that doesn’t allow you to change the width, font, or text justification), all the online media appear to be interested in is how it’s going to cannibalize advertising revenue.

What people seem to be upset about is that their Google Ads on their *RTFM-style / Hey look what this guy wrote Oh Post what you think in the comments* sites may bring even less cash in than now. They think they’re entitled to success when really nobody is entitled to anything.

Online advertising isn’t going away. *Shitty* online advertising may have its days numbered. I think I’ve clicked on more ads than ever in the past year, usually from The Deck, Fusion, and even Facebook.

Once you start bitching, once you start begging, people start abandoning you. They can’t stand the desperation.

The strange secrets of humor, fear and a guy who makes big money making little people laugh.

“I can’t separate the fact that I have resources from who I am,” he said. “It’s part of me. And it’s something I have to offer twentysomethings.”

“I completely agree.”

“I married young, you know. And I remained married for nearly 30 years while I was raising my kids.”

“How old are they?”

He chuckled before admitting, “It’s kind of weird. They’re your age.”

“It’s not weird at all,” I said.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW girl. EW!

Intego, makers of security and privacy apps for the Mac, warned on Tuesday that some Mac software include a new piece of invasive spyware. Macworld has obtained a preliminary list of the applications with the spyware.

1 - Looks like it’s only dumb screen savers and some FLV converter you’d only use if you were trying to get audio from a Youtube video. Sketchy software.

2 - That introductory paragraph explains what’s fishy about anti-malware companies. Norton protects you against viruses, but it needs viruses to exist in order to continue making software. The worst thing that would happen for anti-malware software companies is if viruses and malware didn’t exist anymore.

Which is why it’s interesting to me that these kinds of announcements always come from those kinds of companies.

I don’t think I got OSX services until I started using Quicksilver and then Launchbar.

QS had some really neat functions built in, like being able to send an image to flickr. You can’t do that with Launchbar, but you could do it if you either coded it yourself (which I can’t really do, but maybe someday) or if Flickr would release a script themselves. Surely that would be over most people’s heads, so instead they have a full-blown software package.

I don’t think Services have caught on because most of the ones built-in aren’t that great. How many people need to calculate a checksum? The best Services are the ones you build yourself.

Bands/Groups/Music I probably never would have heard of without All Songs Considered:

• I Am Robot and Proud
• Toro y Moi
• Laurie Anderson
• Loney, Dear

There’s probably more.

Preview.fm - I have wanted you.

When browsing music I’m usually already listening to something in iTunes. Playing previews in the iTunes store boots me out of whatever I was listening. I’ve always wanted a music preview site I can load in my browser to avoid this.

And it’s faster than the iTunes search.

Looks like if you have a blog you write more good than stuff like magazines and the TV box.

Or it means you are even more badder at writing.

I think I’m the gooder one.

The demos below show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Not all browsers offer this support. But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards — and the amazing things they enable web designers to do.

Folders can be used the same way as what Reason/Record is now calling “blocks.”

But the thing is I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Logic project with folders except my own, and I don’t use it for whole sections. I use them for when there’s a bunch of weird routing or something like that - a bunch of parts being fed into one part, or getting gated or something. Which is almost never.

Maybe I should use them for whole sections like this…

I love this track.

While everyone was looking to the iPad as the device that would kick off the subscription-based paid model for Hulu, it instead looks like the Xbox 360 is going to get that honor. We’ve heard from a very reliable source (who has never been wrong before) that Microsoft is set to unveil Hulu as an Xbox Live service at E3 2010. Similar to how Netflix is integreated into the Xbox 360 dashboard, Hulu would be there as well, and would require a subscription fee.

Probably a subscription to Xbox Live Gold and a subscription to Hulu, which I could see at $9.99 a month. Maybe more.

I think I pay for Gold subscriptions to watch Netflix on my 360, because I rarely actually use it to play games against children online.

Is she? Well, you be the judge since we took all these photos.

If you want justice just submit your modeling portfolio. We’ll call you.

Considering the massive inconvenience and not insignificant (but insured) costs of scrapping the transportation plans and coordination of the most complex touring production ever launched, Live Nation will not likely face a huge financial hit on its 2010 books, if indeed the tour continues as planned next year. While one-off dates like Glastonbury cannot be rescheduled (at least not for this year), revenue from tickets already sold is in the bank and the production costs of actually mounting and moving these shows is now deferred until next year. Ancillary income from merchandise sold at these 16 shows, though, will have to wait.

WTF Bono? Can’t you think of anyone besides yourself?

Really. Did you even think of the lack of ancillary income from merchandise? No, probably not. You were probably too busy thinking about your needs, specifically the needs of your back.

God. Fuckin’ selfish.