The Internet VII
Monday, March 09, 2009
The internet has given me many gifts today, but first I’d liked to direct you to a gift Scott White has given to the internet (well…he technically gave it Robin and me for our wedding).
And now, the three best things I stumbled across on the internet today:
3 - The 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America on Time.com (link courtesy of @themediaisdying). I was amazed to learn that the Boston Globe is losing $1-million a week. Holy shit! I know people from Boston can tend to be kinda-sorta wicked retarded but read a real paper, Massholes! What are you all reading, the fucking Herald? Also - very surprised that the Washington Examiner isn't on that list - I secretly believe that no-one even knows the Examiner exists except for the DC-area freepers that pick it up on their way to their lobbying firm. Or their job at Safeway.
2 - Michael Steele continuing to be Michael Steele. In case you missed it, I posted exclusive tracks from Steele's upcoming GOP Minority Outreach Hip-Hop CD on this very site, and it's nice to see he's going to reinvent the internets now. Word association! You say Michael Steele, I say:
1 - I was going to go with the full trailer for Pixar's Up (it'll be the best movie of the summer, hands down). But then Boing-Boing provided me with a late entry that's one of the best things on the internet ever. EC Comics' Panic issues 1-12. Panic was EC's rip-off of EC's own Mad Magazine. To call it a rip-off is kind of misleading, however - EC would always pile on whatever trend it started, whether it was romance, western, or horror. Panic was a bit of a different story, however. Mad was Harvey Kurtzman's baby and Harvey wasn't too happy with EC trying to exploit the book's success, especially since Harvey's rival editor Al Feldstein was editing the book. Harvey was a perfectionist, Feldstein was...errr...efficient. Their styles couldn't have been any different, and it's easy to imagine Kurtzman getting a little worked up over Feldstein offering a product in the same vein as Mad. I've read all of Kurtzman's issues of Mad, but I've never read Panic. Thank you, internet.
Anyway, until tomorrow, my lover, my internet.
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And now, the three best things I stumbled across on the internet today:
3 - The 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America on Time.com (link courtesy of @themediaisdying). I was amazed to learn that the Boston Globe is losing $1-million a week. Holy shit! I know people from Boston can tend to be kinda-sorta wicked retarded but read a real paper, Massholes! What are you all reading, the fucking Herald? Also - very surprised that the Washington Examiner isn't on that list - I secretly believe that no-one even knows the Examiner exists except for the DC-area freepers that pick it up on their way to their lobbying firm. Or their job at Safeway.
2 - Michael Steele continuing to be Michael Steele. In case you missed it, I posted exclusive tracks from Steele's upcoming GOP Minority Outreach Hip-Hop CD on this very site, and it's nice to see he's going to reinvent the internets now. Word association! You say Michael Steele, I say:
1 - I was going to go with the full trailer for Pixar's Up (it'll be the best movie of the summer, hands down). But then Boing-Boing provided me with a late entry that's one of the best things on the internet ever. EC Comics' Panic issues 1-12. Panic was EC's rip-off of EC's own Mad Magazine. To call it a rip-off is kind of misleading, however - EC would always pile on whatever trend it started, whether it was romance, western, or horror. Panic was a bit of a different story, however. Mad was Harvey Kurtzman's baby and Harvey wasn't too happy with EC trying to exploit the book's success, especially since Harvey's rival editor Al Feldstein was editing the book. Harvey was a perfectionist, Feldstein was...errr...efficient. Their styles couldn't have been any different, and it's easy to imagine Kurtzman getting a little worked up over Feldstein offering a product in the same vein as Mad. I've read all of Kurtzman's issues of Mad, but I've never read Panic. Thank you, internet.
Anyway, until tomorrow, my lover, my internet.
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