Sadly, iWear is fake. But oh it would be magical! Packaging a black mock turtleneck, blue jeans and New Balance sneakers is remarkable. The glasses (sold separately) are a great touch. You’ll feel incredible, amazing, and phenomenal. Apple just re-invented clothes.
iWear
If you didn’t catch on, that’s how people talk when they wear Apple clothes (or I guess, use Apple products too). I don’t have a costume for Halloween yet, maybe I’ll do the iWear. I wonder what else is needed to complete the Steve Jobs look.
Moments ago, President Obama’s Connecticut rally was interrupted by activists looking for more global AIDS funding. Obama reacted by telling them that “the other side” doesn’t fund them (not true) and suggested they interrupt Republican rallies (classy!). Watch ..
Celebrate everyone’s favorite spooky holiday this year just like our southern cousins do, get out your firearms and start shootin’! After the jump, watch this defenseless pumpkin get carved the hard way.
For a few seconds there, it seemed even Jon Stewart wasn’t quite sure what the nature of his beast, the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, was. “What exactly was this?” he asked the crowd. In an earnest speech pleading for unity and civility and even tipping his hat to Juan Williams and Rick Sanchez, Stewart explained that the rally was about bringing Americans together for the better of the country– and at the expense of shouty pundits on both sides.
“If we amplify everything, we hear nothing,” Stewart told the crowd, taking on both pundits on the left and right, and bringing up specific prejudices, fears, and hopes that have been overly dramatized, according to him, and as such diluted and stripped of meaning. He complained that those who use extreme labels on moderates of the other side not only offend those moderates, but the extremists that have “worked so hard” to earn those titles. And as for the true meaning of the day, he most succinctly explained in his introduction:
“I can’t control what people think this was. I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the Heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear– they are, and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies. But, unfortunately, one of our tools in delineating the two broke. The country’s 24-hour politico-pundit-perpetual-panic-conflictinator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder.”
His words rung sincere, and certainly struck a chord with some on the left (Keith Olbermann’s Twitter feed, for one, is NOT happy with Stewart right about now):
Keith Olbermann’s Twitter feed
Contrary to much speculation on the right, he kept his critiques balanced. He addressed Americans of all stripes, specifically noted that his intention to heckle those with which he has openly disagreed– in fact, his only intention was to dissuade those with the power of mass communication from doing so, constantly, on a daily basis. Those who paid attention to Glenn Beck’s speech at “Restoring Honor” will be hard-pressed to find much of a difference at the core of both their speeches, that core being that Americans are truly good and care for one another, and that the only way to get through these difficult times is working together. Beck often describing himself as a bit of a Jon Stewart figure, the fact that it is now Stewart mirroring Beck’s message without much of the excess baggage that being Beck entails seems appropriate.
Unlike Beck, however, there is an immutable truth about Stewart that, while not strong enough to make his words hollow, lend no weight to his message: if those shouting heads on cable news stop shouting, and Americans start working together for the greater good of the nation, Stewart (and Colbert) would be out of a job in a heartbeat. Stewart was right to anticipate that, as a “comedian-pundit-talker-guy,” there are boundaries to what he can say without sounding at some fundamental level hypocritical. The challenge for those Americans who listened to Stewart is to let the words do the talking– that “we know instictively as a people that… we have to work together,” that there will always be darkness, as there will always be New Jersey, but it doesn’t have to define our lives– without letting the impulse to evaluate Stewart ad hominem dilute his message.
American Woman Crowned Miss World After No-Holds-Barred Cage Match
Alexandria Mills, an 18-year-old from Kentucky, won the title of Miss World on Saturday in southern China and as her reward was allowed to consume the soul of second-place finisher Emma Wareus of Botswana.
Forget Stewart and Colbert’s rallies — the hero of the day just might be Zach Galifianakis. During last night’s Real Time With Bill Maher, the funnyman lit up a joint, took a puff, and passed it around to the panel.
The panel included Fox News’ Margaret Hoover, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, and The National Review’s Reihan Salam. Sadly, none of them took part — neither did Maher, who’s an advocate of marijuana.
Google Co-Founders Wanted Steve Jobs To Be CEO of Google
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page were first looking for a CEO to run Google, they met with Steve Jobs. The Google co-founders left that meeting wanting the CEO of Apple to become the CEO of Google.
According to interviews in Bloomberg’s documentary series, Game Changers, that’s who the two boywonders wanted as their head honcho. At the time (early 2000’s), Sergey and Larry had interviewed some 12-13 candidates to become CEO of Google but didn’t like any of ’em. Instead they wanted Jobs, their quote-unquote hero, to be the CEO. Unfortunately Jobs was busy running some other company that was about to embark on a renaissance for the ages.
The Google dudes ended up finding and picking Eric Schmidt who interestingly doesn’t really resemble Jobs at all. It’s funny to think what would’ve happened if things played out differently (even if it was probably never serious for Jobs). Maybe Apple and Google wouldn’t hate each other. Maybe there would be no iPhone. Or no Android. Ah! Never mind! I like the world as it is now.
Mexican Coke Might Not Actually Be Different from Regular Coke
Are you one of those Coca-Cola snobs, who will only drink Mexican Coke because it’s made with cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup? (I am.) You may be the victim of the biggest food cover-up in years!
Well, “cover-up” may be strong, since Coke has neither confirmed nor denied that Mexican bottlers use cane sugar. But according to Time, a recent study that analyzed sodas found that Mexican Coke doesn’t seem to contain the compound you find in cane sugar—sucrose. Instead, the bottles seemed to contain glucose and fructose, which show up in high-fructose corn syrup.
Does this mean we’ve all been lied to by our cool older cousins who told us about Mexican Coke? Luckily for those of us who’ve staked our reputations on our Coke snobbery, there may be a possible explanation for the lack of sucrose in Mexican Coke—namely, that the bottles were old and the sucrose had split into the other two compounds. (The researchers also said they didn’t analyze enough bottles to come to a firm conclusion.) So, yes, you can continue clinging to your feeling of superiority thanks to your discerning taste in the most popular commercial beverage on the planet. I know I will!
Shocker: Oxford Girls Like to Get Drunk and Embarrass Themselves, Too
Some photos that recently popped up on Facebook show first year female lacrosse players at Oxford dressed up as babies or as “teenage mums” as some sort of boozy hazing ritual. Now everyone is horrified! This filthy behavior, atOxford?
Here are some grim details:
Shocking images of the Babies and Teenage Mums event – which appeared on Facebook – also showed the teenage girls rolling on a filthy floor while wearing NAPPIES.
Meanwhile, older students – who played the role of ‘chav’ mums – wore tracksuits and gold jewellery while smoking and shouting abuse at their “babies”.
During the ceremony, which took place on Wednesday night, the younger students had to sit on the older girls’ laps and be “fed” baby bottles full of booze.
The freshers were also made to lick baby food off paper plates as part of the ritual, which has been branded “extremely tasteless” by fellow students.
This is maybe the uncouth kind of thing you’d expect at Bristol or one of the other redbrick unis, but not at Oxford! Why Oxford is the Harvard of the East! The Stansbury of the much farther East! After reading this and seeing that scandalous Facebook movie, I’m sending my children, Daxely and Brykenzie, to safe, upstanding colleges only. Like Cambridge. Or Dartmouth.
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