4000 Words From Axl. Good to see he's back to competing with his nemesis Courtney -- but now with crazy internet writing! Or maybe not -- he sounds more like a lawyer than anything else.
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If you're gonna make the Approval Matrix, the place to be is the Brilliant/Lowbrow quadrant -- not too far from Shaq's Twitter and Jizz In My Pants, but regrettably closer to Hugh Jackman's gay porn in Australia. ( List of lists is here, if you're looking.) yesterday
New Yorkers: we are throwing a party on Tuesday night at Barramundi (67 Clinton St. -- Lower East Side) to commemorate the launch of the show and my survival in NYC for one year. You're all invited -- rsvp on the Facebook page. mon
This readable thing in The Observer has various tech pundits (Craig Newmark, Micah Sifry, Lawrence Lessig, etc.) speculate on how exactly Obama could use the internet to assist governance.
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Recommended: If Gamers Ran The World. It's an essay that transposes game theory on top of public policy without trying to force bad metaphors. It argues that key gaming concepts -- scarcity, complexity, efficiency, failure, etc. -- are all effective tools for understanding governance. [ via] thu
More on the Lonely Island CD, Incredibad: 14 new tracks; collaborations with Julian Casablancas, T-Pain, and Jack Black; includes "Lazy Sunday," "Dick in a Box," and "Jizz in My Pants"; tour is possible.
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Some of the lists recently added to the 2008 list of lists: Google's Zeitgeist, Pitchfork's 20 Worst Album Covers, Pantone's Color of the Year, Time's Top 10 Everything, New York Magazine's Year in Culture, Jonathan Yardley's Best Books, Christianity Today's Top News Stories, London Times' 100 Best Records, Salon's Book Awards, Sasha Frere-Jones' Best Of 2008, Mr. Skin's Top 20 Celebrity Nude Scenes, Global Language Monitor's Top Words of the Year, Roger Ebert's Best Films, ArtForum's Best of 2008, PetFinder's Most Popular Pet Names, and Candy Addict's Best Candy. wed
Jimmy Fallon's webshow is going live tonight. It'll be here. mon
I helped Rachel launch a new thing today: Charitini. For the moment, it's a hub around doing charitable giving for her birthday, but she's got big plans with expanding it. mon
Who's not totally getting fucked over by the economy? North Dakota! (My family is small-town bankers from NoDak. This quote from the story is pretty much them: "Our banks don't do those goofy loans.") sun
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An update from yesterday's post, some stuff I watched on MTVMusic.com today: