by David | May 1, 2009 | Amusing Nonsense, Friday Noon Videos, Online Video, Video
The swine flu pandemic – er, ahem H1N1 virus (now the officially gov’t sanctioned name for the Aporkalypse) – has generated hysteria in the news that rivals the Deadly Y2K Bug That Was Gonna Kill Us All (if you don’t remember – a sample...
by David | Apr 24, 2009 | Amusing Nonsense, journalism, Online Video, Video
Last week at the International Symposium of Online Journalists in Austin, I presented a series of viral videos to make the point that the national discourse is no longer “owned” by what we think of as professional media. It may seem like a trivial point,...
by David | Mar 15, 2009 | Amusing Nonsense
I find data mash-ups like this absolutely fascinating. Totally anecdotal, useless for anything other than starting an argument or feeling smug/outraged, but impossible to look away from. It was made by comparing the reported list of favorite bands from Facebook with...
by David | Mar 10, 2009 | Amusing Nonsense
Apparently, there is no government agency doing a complex & demanding job that a bunch of yo-hos don’t think could be replaced by private industry. Even when said private industry has NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO with the job that the government agency was...
by David | Feb 13, 2009 | Amusing Nonsense, Online Video, Video
I was serenaded by this group last night on a riverboat restaurant here in Kiev. My friends here took us out for a big traditional Ukrainian dinner, and started plying me with this deadly local concoction made of vodka, honey and hot peppers. It’s designed...
