Towers of Babel On Edition
Today’s links of interest:
- What Apple didn’t announce for iPhone OS 3.0
Well, you gotta save some stuff for 4.0, 5.0, etc. - Pope in Africa reaffirms no condoms against AIDS
We don’t know why everybody is up in arms — clearly, the world’s foremost expert on sex and sexuality is a octogenarian who has been celibate for the vast majority of his life. - ‘Spectacular’ Natasha Richardson won the Tony Award for ‘Cabaret’
This is the weirdest, saddest story going on this week. - Battlestar Galactica: Admiral Adama goes to the United Nations
Headline of the day. - Galaxies in gridlock
How do we know that these galaxies aren’t actually millions of light years apart and it just looks like they’re colliding from our angle? - How Jon Stewart Went Bad
Tucker Carlson, still smarting from his own Jon Stewart smackdown almost five years later, thinks he has a different angle on the Jon Stewart – Jim Cramer battle. But it actually reveals more about Tucker Carlson than anything. According to Carlson, anger and humor don’t mix. Which just goes to show how little he understands about humor: the best humor — ESPECIALLY satire — comes directly from a place of anger. At another point Carlson asserts: No one this earnest can remain an effective satirist. Are you fucking kidding me? Earnestness is the KEY to satire: the jokes live and die on whether or not the audience believes the satirist is telling the jokes in order to keep himself from burning down whatever is pissing him off. - Will Seattle Post-Intelligencer Be Profitable Online?
Could be, could be. Here’s hoping!