BlogBites

October 30th, 2004

That’s right — Apple’s spending money seeing to it that features are removed from your iPod. Boing Boing  

This issue’s for that kid who shit in the study hall garbage can. Iron Circus  

On the other hand, if it’s a choice between pseudo-sophisticated ironic detachment and glassy-eyed mobs of oath-taking true believers — well, ironic detachment is looking better all the time, isn’t it? Political Animal  

so, i switched over to my “guilty pleasures” playlist, and walked on…confident that, at that moment, no one else in the world was walking in time to andy gibb’s shadow dancing and feeling like a badass. tequila mockingbird  

How long can one eat a diet consisting only of Swiss Miss Chocolate Pudding and Haagen Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream before dying of malnutrition? kottke.org  

Even if you can’t stand Marshall Mathers, or ‘that shit these kids call music’, or rap/hiphop culture at large — no, especially if you can’t stand those things — you owe it to yourself to hear and see ‘Mosh’ by eminem. fredshouse.net  

I personally pray the Rapture comes before Nov. 2 and that it takes Bush and his cronies to Hell to do some nation-building. Joho the Blog  

“There’s so much controversy that they’re planting, deliberately planting at the polls, that there’s almost certainly to be a suit going back to the Supreme Court eventually, going through the other courts slowly first.” TVNewser  

In order to erase the trade deficit, Hyde insightfully suggested that we should “sell more than we buy.” Blog for America  

Through RSS and blogs, we knew that the Times was reporting the story before it went online. Alex Williams Weblog  

remeber when kenny rogers was more than a shill for san diegan indian casinos and the face for a rotisserie chicken chain? gomi no sensei  

Imagine how much easier it would be to get a new hire up to speed if they could spend their first few days reading the archives of their team-members’ blogs. Moonwatcher  

So there we were, a half a tank of gas, a half pack of cigarettes, looking for money for the penguin…. User Generated Content  

We were gonna write up a proper post for this one, but our band played the wrong song. Engadget (via This is not your practice blog)  

This is the type of situation in which panic is the only course of action. Just a Gwai Lo