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November 07, 2009

"Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)"

From McSweeney's. Sample:

Horatio thinks he saw a ghost.

Hamlet thinks it's annoying when your uncle marries your mother right after your dad dies.

The king thinks Hamlet's annoying.

Laertes thinks Ophelia can do better.

Hamlet's father is now a zombie.

November 06, 2009

What Berke Breathed is up to now

The creator of Bloom County--the best comic strip of my lifetime--seems sadly to take little pleasure in what he achieved.

November 01, 2009

"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Gmail Inbox"

I laughed.

October 30, 2009

"I Was Dying Way Before Every Other Celebrity Started Doing It"

By Kurt Cobain.

(The Onion, of course.)

October 25, 2009

"Who Said It: Dictator or NFL Coach?"

Heh. (I got 10 out of 12.)

October 22, 2009

"The Venn Diagram of Social Media"

Funny. (Boing Boing, 8/28).

October 10, 2009

"First-Year Grad Student Wins Nobel Prize in Economics!"

Congratulations, Quintus Pfuffnick! Heh.

(It's not the Onion; it's Greg Mankiw.)

October 07, 2009

"Twittering the Constitution"

P. J. O'Rourke doing his thing. Sample:

Pre-A: We the people R the man. Here's how it rolls. Art1: Congress do law. Got Senate/House-o-Reps.

September 25, 2009

A dozen more of my favorites from "Overheard in New York"

". . . Four or Five Hours After You Report Them".

"Portrait of the Life Coach As a Young Boy".

"Even Better".

"If Fox News Writers Scripted a Teen Drama".

"We Can Honestly Say You'll Be the Coolest Tort-Themed Bicycle Gang in New York".

"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Boys But Were Afraid to Ask".

"I'm Beginning to Regret Naming You Descartes".

"Figures Don't Lie".

"Why Do You Think So Many Post-apocalyptic Thrillers Are Filmed in New York?"

"That Should Be on a Sign at the Airport".

"Only in the Event Of His Demise, Honey".

"This Cannot End Well".

September 23, 2009

Students: be careful telling an economics professor you've found a violation of the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility

Or at least be careful telling the economics professors at Columbia.
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