Minor league baseball continues as the flood waters rise. Take that soccer.

Minor league baseball continues as the flood waters rise. Take that soccer.

Iconic Japanese ghost girl used in prank. I would have taken a chair to them before I realized it was fake.

The perils of a sitting.

The perils of a sitting.

Industry Capture of FCC

Four months after approving the purchase of NBC by Comcast, FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker will leave for a lobbying job at Comcast.

  • Ron Burgundy: Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast.
  • Champ Kind: It jumped up a notch.
  • Ron Burgundy: It did, didn't it?
  • Brick Tamland: Yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart.
  • Ron Burgundy: I saw that. Brick killed a guy. Did you throw a trident?
  • Brick Tamland: Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident.
  • Ron Burgundy: Brick, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder.

Community as 500 Days of Summer. Amazing how well it fits and reminds me of how much the show as changed over its life so far.

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

Joseph Stiglitz on the harm of income concentration in America.

Quality HIgh Fidelity movie poster from artist Chris Madden

Quality HIgh Fidelity movie poster from artist Chris Madden

Bruce Schneier on why the US government's love of surveilence makes us all less secure

“These risks are not merely theoretical. After September 11, the NSA built a surveillance infrastructure to eavesdrop on telephone calls and e-mails within the U.S. Although procedural rules stated that only non-Americans and international phone calls were to be listened to, actual practice didn’t match those rules. NSA analysts collected more data than they were authorized to and used the system to spy on wives, girlfriends and notables such as President Clinton.”

Olly Moss killing it with a crazy cutout art show.