Romney and an Orthodox Wedding, the greatest non-story of the day
The viral nature of online content can help push Betty White onto SNL, and humping turtles into your inbox. It also has the ability of turning absolutely nothing into something. Such is the case with...
View ArticleSeinfeld hasn’t sold us yet, drinking coffee w/ comedians
The first episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee got it right on many levels. I was quick to praise Crackle for making the type of original content that Netflix and YouTube have...
View ArticleApple Be Stackin’
As the world takes a huge beating on Facebook, now with a market cap of under 40 bil, Apple continues to crush. The most valuable company in the world, it’s striving without the late, great Steve Jobs....
View ArticleCOSTCO. Providing copious amounts of Beef-a-Reno and CSR
If Walmart is the devil in the space, a true angel might be emerging. A recent article published in TriplePundit, “Costco, the genuine retail CSR leader?”, was trending on Reddit, which may be an...
View ArticleOlympic tragedy for S. Korea fencing
It’s easy to complain about NBC’s coverage of the Olympics. Especially when #NBCFail is trending on Twitter. But in reality, this is a business, and the race to cover the 1 Billion plus rights tag is...
View ArticlePeeing in tacos and the beauty of online vigilantes
Growing up, I recall a friend telling me tales of his older brother peeing in the fry oil at Burger King. It seemed like a blatant lie, and anyone who knows the physics of piss hitting hot oil can...
View ArticleBaldwin and Billy Joel made an incredible podcast
Alec Baldwin’s podcast, “Here’s The Thing” has gone slightly under the radar, and it’s been a travesty. His interview with Michael Douglas should have won something. I don’t know, some NPR gold...
View ArticleIranian leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is on Instagram
This doesn’t necessarily qualify as newsworthy, but it’s one of those beautiful instances where irony and insanity mix – Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is on instagram. Yes, the very man who only three...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg has us torn on “Reincarnated”
I pimp this link with a little hesitancy. First, I’m a big Snoop fan. Though east coast, I’m born late enough in the game to approach hip hop with minimal bias. That being said, I’m still dubious of...
View Article“Big Med” New Yorker feature, and the beauty of Cheesecake Factory Medicine
Atul Gawande wrote a delectable feature in this week’s New Yorker, taking a deep look at The Cheesecake Factory’s business structure, and the possibility of applying it to medicine. It’s equally...
View ArticleBill Clinton reunites with…Bill Clinton
Clinton, who loves the opportunity to reassert himself as the first black president, recently had lunch with a 14 year-old Ugandan who was named during Clinton’s 1998 trip to Africa. The two photos...
View ArticleGod is Dead…in CNN user comment
On occasion, amid the cornucopia of layman idiocy, there’s a stroke of beauty that comes from a site’s user comment section. And seeing that we lean a bit towards the existential, Nietzsche’s “God if...
View ArticleDikembe Mutombo’s 4 ½ Weeks to Save the World – P&G, bless you.
Every once in a while a brand will produce something so fcking smart, it’s sure to go over the heads of almost everyone who consumes their product. But for the select few who do get it, well, it goes...
View ArticlePortNoise City Guide – Istanbul
Turkey, and more notably Istanbul, has become an increasingly more popular destination for those looking to dip their tip into the Muslim world. It’s easier for Westerners to tackle the Turkish...
View ArticleIsrael at war…social media ablaze
We don’t need to take sides in the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel. Actually, screw it. Though always on the side of peace, in a battle between westernized democracy and extremists, we’ll take...
View ArticleGreat Dub…solid, solid dub
For some reason, though it can easily be chalked up as pure idiocy, I absolutely love this dubbed video. Nothing better than a ghetto voice, some witty dialogue, and a 6 year old kid toting an AK and...
View ArticleNew York Post – A Cover Story Gem on Petraeus
The New York Post headlines are utterly insane. So insane, in fact, that it’s been the paper’s M.O. to outdo itself with every coming news event. Sex scandals are their forte, which is why we’re so...
View ArticleLance, Lance, Lance. Tweet of the century.
We’re torn on how to react to this one… Baller, shameless, the greatest tweet in cycling history?
View ArticleSpotify may one day make some dough
Techcrunch recently reported, based off of leaked financial statements, that Spotify is having an incredibly strong 2012. Though still posting a loss after an insane royalties structure and engineering...
View ArticleThe website you won’t be seeing…Romney Elect
The great folks at PoliticalWire were smart enough to take just enough screenshots of Romney’s secret “President Elect” website, before it was taken down post-Electoral meltdown. The site was built by...
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