« October 2008

Wed, Nov 19

# QWOP running game First ten minutes: Joe Cocker. Second ten minutes: Ministry of Silly Walks. Third ten minutes: give up weeping.
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Tue, Nov 18

# Help WALL-E name the next Mars rover If you have a child between 5 and 18, it finally paid off! Use them as your proxy to submit an awesome name.
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# Gift idea: Autographed David Hasselhoff photos with your customized message! The Hoff isn't even involved; they've digitized his handwriting and signature. If I were his kids, I'd use this technology to rewrite his will and kill him.
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# Bruno (a.k.a. Sacha Baron Cohen) Disrupts Medium Awesome.
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Mon, Nov 17

# Secret Service codenames for presidents and their families Entertaining stuff. The Obama girls have decided to give a nod to the Reagan years.
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# Lose the BlackBerry? Yes He Can, Maybe
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Sat, Nov 15

Role Models (Movie)
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Fri, Nov 14

# What's the Difference Between 9/11 and Barack Obama? An insider response to the idea of a post-Bush Daily Show. (You can watch the video response as well.)
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# The Relatively Short Goodbye The Daily Show can still exist in an Obama presidency, but FJM sadly cannot.
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# Chris Elliott's surprisingly cute daughter joins SNL And fortunately, she debuts on the Paul Rudd episode, or there's virtually no chance I'd have seen her this year.
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# How to Fix a Flat NYT's fantastic Thomas Friedman (who seems to work the word "flat" into every title lately) on the prospect of bailouts for Detroit.
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Mon, Nov 10

# The Mystery Science Theater 3000 reunion interview With the Onion's A.V. Club
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Sun, Nov 9

Apollo 13 (Netflix)
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# 'Dark Knight' as Dark Horse Even the worst EW issue is great if there's a Mark Harris column in it. I'm not sure I'd vote Batman for Best Picture, but I sure do like his reasoning.
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Sat, Nov 8

I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Book)
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Wed, Nov 5

# How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works But unanswered is the more important question – I'm paraphrasing Jon Stewart here – why??
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# Michael Crichton, 66 God damn it. This is what I get for being in a good mood.
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Tue, Nov 4

# Q&A with the creators of How I Met Your Mother If you're into that sort of thing. (And by "that sort of thing" I mean "the best multi-camera sitcom currently on the air.")
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# CNN's election night coverage will include interviews by hologram 40 cameras and 20 computers?! I suppose when you've got nothing to say, you might as well say it with pizzazz.
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# LA Times talks to Annie Proulx who sounds about as fun to hang out with as you might expect.
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# New York Times profiles the Olsen twins With some kind of interesting surprises about what they've been up to.
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Mon, Nov 3

# Amazon's Frustration-Free Packaging promises to curb "wrap rage" And just in time for the holidays. (Why in God's name does tech-genius Bezos insist on posting these updates as giant JPEGs?)
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# Disney Learns Lessons From Pixar On the eve of Bolt, the first Disney feature to be overseen by Pixar's team, a look at how things have changed. From the look of the Bolt trailer, only for the better.
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Sun, Nov 2

How Fiction Works (Book)
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Sat, Nov 1

# The 30 Rock season premiere earned record ratings and continued their marvelous track record of great guest appearances that don't overwhelm the show.
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