James Randi challenges the audiophiles on the supposedly great speaker cables that retail at … holy shit … $7250?!?!
I fought the cable battle myself. When I bought my blu-ray player, Best Buy tried to sell me $100 HDMI cables. I went to Amazon and bought one for thirty cents. It works great. And if it breaks, I can use the money I saved to buy 300 replacements.
If more companies had the common sense displayed by Jeff Bezos here, our economy would be in much better shape.
Yes, Virginia. The people running the AP are fricking morons. If Google were turning a profit, maybe they would have a point. Maybe.
RIP, Shifty. You earned it.
Just to be safe, I’m putting pictures of babies and puppies in my wallet.
Too many stories to comment on:
Cracked does some 2012 debunking of their own. Man, I’m loving that site lately.
Stories like this, about a “mom” doing drugs and servicing johns while with her two little kids, make you want to punch someone in the throat.
Newsweek tackles Oprah in a hard-hitting piece about her promotion of quackery. About damn time, too. Now if only they would review her suggestions for Presidents…
Stunning set of pictures.
Watching this hilarious and sexist look at the internet back in 1969 reminds me of how much of a crazy world we live in. I can remember, back in the 80’s, when the idea of shopping and buying things on a computer seemed far out, man.
The Elements of Style is fifty years old. It’s one of the most vital books to my profession. I wish everyone had a copy.
Maybe it’s just me, but the FEMA coloring book on natural disasters, including a nice paint-by-numbers depiction of 9/11 — creeps me out.
I’ve linked to this sort of thing before, but it’s worth linking again to list of disaster myths. I’ve come to hate that movie cliche of, when disaster hits, people running back and forth in front of the camera while screaming.