Tech Buzz Bowing to the whims of a publisher, Amazon remotely deleted thousands of copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from people's Kindles. Sure, they were also reimbursed. But the irony here couldn't be much less subtle.
We'll never know why Microsoft decided to pull this ad for Internet Explorer 8. But we will get to see a guy that looks kinda like Will Forte slip in vomit.
A job posting from New York film jobs site goes horribly, horribly awry when anti-Semitism gets involved. Read from the bottom up.
You can understand the English, but the Welsh part reads, “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.” This is why you should never trust the internet for your road sign translation needs.
The AFP photoservice ran an image taken from Tina Fey’s SNL performance last weekend as an actual picture of Governor Palin. Hey, I mean, they do look alike. But Amy Poehler ain’t no Katie Couric.
Politics Buzz As America is paralyzed by economic catastrophe and stuck in a war arguably based on lies, President Bush is allegedly turning his focus to capturing Osama Bin Laden (remember him?) in an effort to see his presidency as something other than a complete and utter disaster. McCain, on the other hand, pledges to - once and for all - find Hitler and “let him taste The Maverick’s specialty: the old knuckle sandwich!”
John McCain needs to work on his mic placement. We’re not above making obvious penis jokes.
What does the U.S. have in common with Liberia and Burma? This makes me almost as proud as when that Michael Phelps guy wins.
Greyhound wisely pulls their recent ad campaign after last week’s decapitation. It could have been worse, right? “Don’t lose your head in traffic. Go Greyhound.” Or: “Greyhound. You probably won’t be decapitated by a lone maniac while the other passengers helplessly stand by.”
Tech Buzz A site devoted to documenting when professionally made cakes go bad. What you’ll see: Cakes with misspelled words, cakes with unnecessary quotes, ugly cakes and cakes in the spirit of 2 Girls 1 Cup Cake and our favorite Wal-Mart cake ever.
Fox News refers to the candidate’s wife in a new, offensive way. Because Michelle Malkin calling Michelle Obama her husband’s “bitter half” wasn’t quite spiteful enough, the Fox News team went that extra mile with blithe racism and misogyny in the lower third of the screen.
The story behind Chumazik, the Eastern Bloc internet phenomenon. After appearing in the background of a Russian news report, covered in soot and making a silly face, miner Yury Tatarenkov was given the nickname Chumazik (or “Smudge Boy”) and became a cultural phenom. And then, after a little research, reporters learned Tatarenkov suffered from cerebral palsy. Whoops! *Cue clown whistle* While this story might normally make you taste your own bile, it’s nice to know that the original photog jokers are now raising money for Tatarenkov, who lives alone with his mother. See? Memes may come and go, but kindness lasts forever.
Culture Buzz A rash of factual errors and misspellings plague America’s angriest signage. It turns out blog comments do have a precursor: Protest signs, usually angry, often wrong. Though there is something far sadder about someone laboring over their angry sign with paint or markers and still spelling ‘john’ incorrectly.
Celebrity Buzz Jamie Lynn Spears and Lily Allen announce their future motherhoods. Celebrities aren’t just like us - they apparently don’t have access to basic contraceptives.
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