One of my favorite bloggers, Kevin Drum, has left his blog Political Animal at the Washington Monthly and set up a new home at Mother Jones. Taking over Political Animal is Steve Benen, formerly of the now closed The Carpetbagger, and Hilzoy. Here’s Kevin’s last post on Political Animal and Steve’s first.
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I’ve been remiss in failing to mention that my good friend Ian (known as The Cooler and pictured above) has joined in the blogging fun and started his very own site, A Slice of Life. We’ll see how long he keeps up with it but so far it’s quite funny. You should check it out.
This is pretty cool: Deutsche Telekom, owners of the global T-Mobile brand, had their lawyers send Engadget/Engadget Mobile a letter telling them to stop using the color magenta in Engadget Mobile’s logo. Seriously? Yeah, seriously. The Engadget Mobile guys decided to take things up a notch and did a little site redesign, as you can see in the picture above. Hats off to them for standing up to a corporate bully. Copyrighting colors, do they really think they own that shit?
Bloglines has put out a list of the top 1000 blogs on Bloglines. Citizen Jake is probably 1001st or something. (via Darren)
The results have come in from for the Golden Wingnut Award and your winners are:
1.John Hinderaker: “It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius….”
2. Glenn Reynolds: “Maybe we should rise above the temptation to point out that claims of a ‘quagmire’ were wrong….Nah.”
3. Michelle Malkin: “The Defeatocrats Cheer”
4. Ann Althouse: “Let’s take a closer look at those breasts.”
5. Kim du Toit: “The Pussification of the Western Male”
Very similar to my own ballot, though I had “Pam “Atlas Shrugs” Geller: “My Sharia!”” instead of Kim du Toit’s post. Full vote totals can be found here, along with a special judge’s award presentation.
Kevin Drum is holding a fun little contest to figure out the “wingnuttiest blog posts of all time”. There are 14 nominees and you can vote for the top 5 here. I went with:
1. Ann Althouse: “Let’s take a closer look at those breasts.”
2. John Derbyshire (after the Virginia Tech shootings): “Where was the spirit of self-defense here?….It’s not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons.”
3. Pam “Atlas Shrugs” Geller: “My Sharia!”
4. John Hinderaker: “It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius….”
5. Glenn Reynolds: “Maybe we should rise above the temptation to point out that claims of a ‘quagmire’ were wrong….Nah.”
Blog comment of the year
From a post on the Washington City Paper’s blog City Desk comes this great comment by Arlene Stuff:
Some background on this lame blog-fight here.