Oh hi Keith Gessen,
For starters: I like you. It was fun waving at you last night from my car as I went by!
by Seth Colter Walls
by Anonymous
Today’s Rap Radar posts two Current TV clips of Mos Def in Japan. (One here, one below.) Mos performs the songs “Auditorium” and “Quiet Dog” from his The Ecstatic album, analyzes Japanese society during a taxi trip through Tokyo, goes to a sumo wrestling bout, and falls deeply in love with a…
From Flowing Data comes this map of job losses. (The above represents June of 2009.) It’s fun to go back to…
This is soooo awkward. This is like when someone gives you a $400 vacuum cleaner that you can’t return. Actually? Worse. This is a horrible, misguided, not-bright idea by THOSE MEDDLING SWEDES that has just entirely disrupted our political conversations and plans for most of the next month.
Awl columnist D.R. Adams is on a brief Internet sabbatical. (COLOR ME JEALOUS, HEATHER.) He will be communicating via something called “the mail.” (If you remember, the mail is where you used to get “the checks,” back when you had a job!) What…
The Navy is using unmanned robot helicopters to hunt drug smugglers. A Fire Scout helicopter called MQ-8B (apparently, the Navy shops for robots on the Jawa black market), the craft is more advanced than the remote operated drone planes used in…
From the inbox. To the Editors: I’m in Oslo (on one of the three days in the year anybody in the world pays attention to Norway-the other days are the day the prize is actually handed out and the day the entertainers at the Nobel Prize…
One of the more vexing conundrums with which we’ve been faced in the evolution of this site is what to do with the final Friday post. Barring some earthshattering news event which compels one or the other of us to race to our laptops, whatever we stick up here late at the end of the week will remain atop the…
Just another day: “A GOP candidate in South Florida says it was a mistake to shoot at a target with a Democratic congresswoman’s initials.” Broward County Republicans held a meeting at a gun range, where they “used assault rifles to shoot at targets…
