blogomatic http://www.blogomatic.org/ a weblog of links and things en-us frankieist@gmail.com 2008-10-29T17:39:56-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 What Carriers aren't eager to tell you about texting http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all Professor Keshav said that once a carrier invests in the centralized storage equipment — storing a terabyte now costs only $100 and is dropping — and the staff to maintain it, its costs are basically covered. “Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume,” he said. “It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million.” 1531@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ What Carriers aren't eager to tell you about texting]]> 2009-01-04T16:18:21-05:00 Real life Mario Kart http://www.dailymotion.com/nqtv/video/x7lni3_mario-kart-remi-gaillard_funsearch Some French guy drives around in a go-kart throwing bananas under cars. 1530@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Real life Mario Kart]]> 2008-12-08T22:57:53-05:00 Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all I can't help but feel that they trolled the overly credulous New York Times reporter. 1529@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling]]> 2008-12-07T13:31:45-05:00 Surfing for Seniors, an instructional video from 1997 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmgqxv8i6xs Tries to be helpful but ends up being just hilariously condescending. 1528@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Surfing for Seniors, an instructional video from 1997]]> 2008-12-07T13:28:33-05:00 Too Weird for The Wire http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2008/0805.carey.html How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds. 1527@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Too Weird for The Wire]]> 2008-12-01T19:29:26-05:00 The Black Belt: How soil types determined the 2008 election in the Deep South http://vigorousnorth.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-belt-how-soil-types-determined.html A look at how 2008 presidential voting patterns in the deep south were influenced by marine deposits in the soil 85 million years ago. 1526@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ The Black Belt: How soil types determined the 2008 election in the Deep South]]> 2008-11-20T18:12:42-05:00 Real-life Photoshop http://www.flickr.com/photos/18697966@N00/2982281565/sizes/o/ full flickr set.]]> 1525@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Real-life Photoshop]]> 2008-11-07T19:03:53-05:00 Great moments in post-modernism, pt. 1 (More Money, More Problems) http://buildingsandfood.com/great-moments-in-post-modernism-pt-1-more-money-more-problems So there it is: a weird/powerful truism about social politics delivered in a catchy, post-modern package that uses parody, found video, and cutting-edge video techniques (and let’s not sell Hype Williams short for a second — check out the shots of Puffy and Mase in the yellow suits — I mean, what the hell is that?!), all montaged together with an off-handed mastery (check out how some of the transitions are deliberately not on-beat) to create something that felt so like the future that it could never really be the future. Just like all videos for pop singles, it was dug, and it was forgotten. And so it goes. Somewhere out there there is a list of videos that really truly did something new, and this one belongs on that list.]]> 1524@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Great moments in post-modernism, pt. 1 (More Money, More Problems)]]> 2008-10-30T20:55:03-05:00 Fred Anderson shows off Weekend Update's new interactive map http://www.blogomatic.org/archives/2008/10/fred-anderson-shows-off-weekend-updates-new-interactive-map.php 1523@http://www.blogomatic.org/

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]]> 2008-10-29T17:39:56-05:00 The Term Paper Artist http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article10100801.aspx A short confessional on involvement in the Term Paper industry. 1522@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ The Term Paper Artist]]> 2008-10-26T11:40:24-05:00 Wassup 2008 http://www.blogomatic.org/archives/2008/10/wassup-2008.php 1521@http://www.blogomatic.org/

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]]> 2008-10-25T12:30:18-05:00 Obama and McCain at the Al Smith dinner http://www.blogomatic.org/archives/2008/10/obama-and-mccain-at-the-al-smith-dinner.php Obama and McCain roasted each other last night at some 1520@http://www.blogomatic.org/

Obama and McCain roasted each other last night at some event I've never heard of. It's actually really funny though — I even laughed once or twice at some of McCain's jokes. YouTube in four parts. Click on the tabs above the video to see the other parts.


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]]> 2008-10-17T22:29:06-05:00 The Free Fall Research Page http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html Some tips on how to survive an unplannd freefall from 35,000 feet. 1519@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ The Free Fall Research Page]]> 2008-10-12T20:58:55-05:00 Make-Believe Maverick http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/makebelieve_maverick/print “This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.” 1518@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Make-Believe Maverick]]> 2008-10-05T15:48:14-05:00 Saturday Night Live - Couric / Palin Open http://www.nbc.com/saturday_night_live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/ Tina Fey and Amy Poehler spoof Katie Couric's recent interview with Sarah Palin 1517@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Saturday Night Live - Couric / Palin Open]]> 2008-10-01T15:29:58-05:00 Head of Skate preview http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1831461 Disney pictures presents “Head of Skate,” a film about a hockey mom who becomes the US Vice President. 1516@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Head of Skate preview]]> 2008-09-30T21:05:26-05:00 Obama's email http://www.theonion.com/content/node/86415/1?slideshow=0 The Onion got this exclusive of Obama's Gmail account.]]> 1515@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Obama's email]]> 2008-09-23T06:44:46-05:00 Last of the Neanderthals - National Geographic http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2008/10/neanderthals/hall-textright from the start, the neanderthals were saddled with an enduring cultural stereotype as dim-witted, brutish cavemen. the size and shape of the fossils does suggest a short, stout fireplug of a physique (males averaged about five feet, five inches tall and about 185 pounds), with massive muscles and a flaring rib cage presumably encasing capacious lungs. steven e. churchill, a paleoanthropologist at duke university, has calculated that to support his body mass in a cold climate, a typical neanderthal male would have needed up to 5,000 calories daily, or approaching what a bicyclist burns each day in the tour de france. yet behind its bulging browridges, a neanderthal's low-domed skull housed a brain with a volume slightly larger on average than our own today. and while their tools and weapons were more primitive than those of the modern humans who supplanted them in europe, they were no less sophisticated than the implements made by their modern human contemporaries living in africa and the middle east. “Right from the start, the Neanderthals were saddled with an enduring cultural stereotype as dim-witted, brutish cavemen. The size and shape of the fossils does suggest a short, stout fireplug of a physique (males averaged about five feet, five inches tall and about 185 pounds), with massive muscles and a flaring rib cage presumably encasing capacious lungs. Steven E. Churchill, a paleoanthropologist at Duke University, has calculated that to support his body mass in a cold climate, a typical Neanderthal male would have needed up to 5,000 calories daily, or approaching what a bicyclist burns each day in the Tour de France. Yet behind its bulging browridges, a Neanderthal's low-domed skull housed a brain with a volume slightly larger on average than our own today. And while their tools and weapons were more primitive than those of the modern humans who supplanted them in Europe, they were no less sophisticated than the implements made by their modern human contemporaries living in Africa and the Middle East.” 1514@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Last of the Neanderthals - National Geographic]]> 2008-09-22T06:26:06-05:00 My Gal: The New Yorker Shouts and Murmers http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/09/22/080922sh_shouts_saunders?currentpage=all “Sarah Palin knows a little something about God’s will, knowing God quite well, from their work together on that natural-gas pipeline, and what God wills is: Country First. And not just any country! There was a slight error on our signage. Other countries, such as that one they have in France, reading our slogan, if they can even read real words, might be all, like, “Hey, bonjour, they are saying we can put our country, France, first!” Non, non, non, France! What we are saying is, you’d better put our country first, you merde-heads, or soon there will be so much lipstick on your pit bulls it will make your berets spin” 1513@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ My Gal: The New Yorker Shouts and Murmers]]> 2008-09-21T20:40:42-05:00 Why McCain can't stop saying "my friends" - Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/id/2198660/ “John McCain's insistent recourse to ‘my friends’ is easily the most mystifying verbal tic of any politician since Bob Dole's out-of-body presidential campaign of 1996, which featured Dole's not entirely reassuring promise that ‘Bob Dole is not some sort of fringe candidate.’ Like Dole's use of the dissociative third person — or illeism, a propensity also shared by Elmo and the Incredible Hulk — this year's obsessive invocations to friendship invite scrutiny.” 1512@http://www.reticulatedsplines.org/linkies/ Why McCain can't stop saying "my friends" - Slate Magazine]]> 2008-09-05T11:37:01-05:00