An actually good Dana Milbank column

Credit where credit’s due: This Dana Milbank column on Michael Steele’s healthcare speech is pretty good.

Rob Liefeld’s 40 Worst Panels

This is why the internet was invented: Rob Liefeld’s 40 Worst Panels. Via a whole bunch of nerds on the twitter.

Golden Balls

Via Rex, should only be a matter of time before this English game show, called Golden Balls, gets ripped off over here. The best part of the show is the end which is called Split or Steal.

Now thats good television.

Sports Guy says go to Rollins

In his mailbag on Friday Bill Simmons said kids should forget Duke or Princeton and go to good old Rollins College:
Q: I’m 18 and just graduated high school. When my college decisions came in in April, I narrowed down my choices to Dartmouth and Princeton and had no idea what to do. Whether it’s [...]

SuperFreakonomics

The followup to Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics: Tales of Altruism, Terrorism, and Poorly Paid Prostitutes, comes out October 20th. via

Dan Klein’s One Man Funkytown

Streeter Seidell share’s Dan Klein’s College Humor audition tape. It’s pure genius:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

More on TPM Media’s fundraising

The Niemen Journalism Lab and the NY Times provide some of the commentary I asked for regarding TPM Media’s fundraising. Eventually they want to get up to 60 staffers.

Joe Rogan is one of a kind

From towards the end of a Vanity Fair interview with Joe Rogan:
Somewhere around this point, the interview went off the rails. Rogan and I discussed an array of wacky topics, far more than can be reprinted here. We discussed which branch of government might be in charge of distributing money for black-op projects like anti-matter [...]

United breaks guitars

The backstory:
Last year Dave Carroll witnessed United Airlines baggage handlers throwing and breaking his $3,500 guitar. After being told he would not be compensated for the damage, he vowed to write three songs, make music videos and publish them online to get revenge. This is the first.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Pandora saved

It looked bad there for a while but it looks like an agreement has been reached that will allow internet radio stations like Pandora to continue to operate. Here’s Tim Westergren’s, founder of Pandora, statement
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