The Late Late Show Video - 5/22/2013
Craig welcomes actor Stephen Fry. (TV-14 D, L)
Great, lucid conversation about life and morality. Starts around 12 min. mark.
Bank's Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills
Citigroup’s ideas were reflected in more than 70 lines of one 85-line bill.
Sure, makes perfect sense. What could go wrong?
Cop Charged in Firebombing of NJ Captain's Home
A New Jersey police officer is accused of firebombing a police captain’s home where the captain was inside with his wife, two children and elderly mother, prosecutors said.
Thin blue lie.
Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the 911 dispatcher told the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away? Do you know if he’s intoxicated or anything?
Yumblr? What Some Of Tumblr’s Best Bloggers Think About Yahoo’s $1.1 Billion Purchase
Mediaite was generous enough to count me on that list, and here’s what I said:
I definitely find the news concerning. I mean, there’s a reason I haven’t visited Yahoo since about 2002: It’s incredibly busy and outdated. If Yahoo were a place instead of a website, I’d imagine it as a nursing home. If I get an email from a Yahoo email address, I assume (correctly, as a recent study showed) that they’re probably older and not very internet literate.
Tumblr, by contrast, is streamlined, user-friendly, and appealing to a young demographic. It doesn’t try to be all things to all people. If Yahoo tries — even a little bit — to remake Tumblr in its own image, I don’t see that as a potential improvement.
That said, I’m certainly not leaving Tumblr any time soon. The network is established enough that I think it could take quite a beating from Yahoo before people would abandon the followings and friendships they’ve worked to build. I just hope that beating doesn’t happen.
This contribution to the piece was fantastic:
As I’ve patiently tried to explain Mayer’s legion of fanboys, Tumblr is essentially a free hosting service with very user-friendly scripts riding on top of HTML — no tagging experience required.
This means that end-users control content. Period. I even have a few Google ad scripts rattling around, when I remember to update them.
Yahoo cannot just “insert ads” into feeds — they don’t control the feeds. Then you have precisely the compensation issue you’ve outlined. What — exactly — will Tumblr users get in return for monetizing their traffic for Yahoo?
I could go on and on, but the disconnects should be obvious to anyone reading this — you are a Tumblr user afterall!
With an assist from an overly ambitious psychiatry, all human difference is being transmuted into chemical imbalance meant to be treated with a handy pill. Turning difference into illness was among the great strokes of marketing genius accomplished in our time.
All the great characters in myths, novels, and plays have endured the test of time precisely because they drift so colorfully away from the mean. Do we really want to put Oedipus on the couch, give Hamlet a quick course of behavior therapy, start Lear on antipsychotics?
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The Strange Case of Ibragim Todashev
Very simple — someone needs to get fired.
You do not so botch an investigation into the Boston bombing that your lead winds up dead. Ever.
But here we are.
He called me a whiner. He’s probably right. But that’s also probably the first thing he’s told you guys that’s true in 15 years. I know what he’s like. You guys are finding out.
College in Georgia Sues for Right to Post Billboard in Tennessee
Exactly the sort of scrap you’d expect to see as the college cartel begins to break down. Remember, colleges want you to think there is scarcity. There is not — and the excess capacity will soon start to contract despite state action to prevent it.
