Cynical times call for cynical tactics, and this is one of the most cynical things I’ve seen lately. Seeing Bono take the piss is actually very refreshing, though.
Simply brilliant.

Carol Burnett has decided to sue Family Guy. The suit seems to hinge on the claim that her likeness was used without her permission.
I loved Carol Burnett back in the day, and she also did a great turn on the Larry Sanders show (which at this point qualifies for back in the day status [...]

Here’s a site that builds you a “realistic” Wii avatar, also known as a Mii, based on a photo you upload for $5.
Are you spending hours tweaking your Mii, trying to make it look right? Frustrated that, even with photo in hand, you just can’t create a likeness?
Have no fear, Make Mii is here! [...]

I like lists. Here’s a decent one: PC World’s 50 most influential people on the web.
And even though it’s the top 50 list of a publication called PC World, guess what black-turtlenecked, jeans-wearing, monomaniacal non-PC user nabs second place?
GO SEE

I’m already good and sick of the hype around the iPhone. Your mileage may vary, but this article at least has the virtue of actually going through the historical development of the product, and it’s a pretty interesting story. Some of it still reads like it came straight from Jobs’ PR firm (and since we’re [...]

Slate’s David Segal has a great piece on questions of plagiarism in photography. Well worth a look.

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Watch it before they pull it. Great bit.

A while ago, I posted a piece on Orato, the “citizen journalism” site that was soliciting sex trade workers to cover the Pickton trial. The idea, presumably, was to get an insider’s look at the sex trade scene in Vancouver.
Orato managed to find not one but two correspondents, and whatever the original intent, I have [...]

How many more of these “mistakes” can Fox-owned outlets make before losing their license?
Just watch the footage they show as “support” for this piece about the conviction of a sex offender.

Even I’m shocked. Vote Obama!

OK, so the Rosie/Donald thing is officially 2007’s first out-of-control meme.
Now joining the fray is rapper Jin, who riffs on Rosie’s “ching chang chong” comments of a few weeks ago — all but forgotten in the mainstream media, but not, it’s safe to say, by Jin.
Homeboy even slams Rosie in Cantonese! Hysterical.

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