The Daily Loper – June 20, 2008

Bad, Crazy Sun Edition

Todays links of interest:

• Smoking, Drinking, Writing, Womanizing, Smoking, Drinking… – Mad Men
  With "Battlestar" and "Lost" gone, and "Dr. Who" and "Weeds" going more towards the fun than anything else, we look forward to the second season of "Mad Men" as something we can really sink our teeth into.
• Has modern life killed the semicolon?
  It’s a very interesting question; people have been asking it for quite some time.
• Huffington Post to expand into local news across the US
  Okay, this is the type of thing that can, if done right, change the face of news reporting. Sam Zell? Are you paying attention?
• A brief history of the album’s recent decline in value
  What? It’s Friday. We’re all about history lessons.
• ITunes Music Store: Over Five Billion Songs Served
  Um, can we finally put to rest the notion that people don’t want to pay for music?
• Firefox 3 Download Count Over 8 Million
  Despite the stumbling out of the gate, they still exceeded their original target.
• Don’t Let Friends Drunk Twitter
  An important public service announcement.
• No Love for The Love Guru
  I ‘ve got a theory: this movie was doomed the second it got a title. There was simply no possible way on the gods desolate irradiated Earth that there could ever be a good movie made called "The Love Guru." Not even with Peter Sellers. Also: remember when it seemed that Mike Myers could be one of the great comic minds of our generation? What the hell were we smoking?
• Getting The Most Out Of Bricks And Mortar
  Even in this age of online shopping, sometimes people still go to stores…yeah, we know about that.
• Naomi Campbell sentenced to community service over plane rage
  That oughta learn her. By the way, if I was some terminally ill patient and I saw Naomi Campbell doing her community service in my hospital, I’d try to see if I could figure out ways to antagonize her. Like looking her in the eyes.
• NASA craft finds evidence of ice on Mars surface
  Can they bring some to us? Because it’s fracking HOT here.
• U.S. drivers should think in gallons per mile: report
  It’s not as difficult as you might think. But it probably ain’t gonna happen, because you think that it’s difficult.