March 2006
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No, Stephen, it's everything.
The Colbert Report triumphs so brilliantly because Colbert’s whole premise is built on the biting satire that The Daily Show used to find in its best moments. Nowadays, Jon Stewart has to resort to jokes about smearing feces (“He’d name a state after you”) that do nothing but noisy the marketplace, while Stephen Colbert pauses for just a moment to speak for the entire...
Shopping around
Would you pay $2,000,000,000 for Facebook? Apparently Mark Zuckerberg, Bryan Veloso and Co. are hoping someone will, since they just turned down a $750 million buy out last week. Holy carp. As a college undergrad and reluctant Facebooker, it makes sense: Facebook has a rapt, profitable audience. It’s interesting that Facebook, more than even MySpace, is a huge force in the Web 2.0 bubble...
Apple continuing to keep it under wraps
Had a job interview with Apple Friday morning, and while I’m smart enough to not go bandying about specific details of anything that happened or was said up on the 29th floor of the company’s New York corporate offices in Midtown, I will say that they really keep stuff quiet. I’m going to be in California over the summer, a fact that I assumed would conflict with my potential...
Plaxo hate
The growing and oft-reviled address book updating service Plaxo made an announcement Monday:
When we started Plaxo, we had a vision to create a self-updating address book… the big ‘if’ in all of this was of course convincing everyone in the world to use Plaxo… we’ve always known that the [automated, high volume] update requests were a means to an end — our...
Proof positive
Seventy-five degrees in New York City on Friday (oh boy, what a relief that was for this Californian’s heart) and snow covering the Santa Clara Valley yet people still believe that we’re not doing anything to the weather with all these horseless carriages? What a world we live in.
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Ego shelter from the imminent storm
On a night when an ever-more snarky and headstrong Jon Stewart could not say the right thing (no matter how many times he referenced Judaism - four), surely the most awkward moment of them all was the double-fisted sermonizing ‘gainst film bootlegging from AMPAS President Sid Ganis and the next presenter, Jake Gyllenhal. The industry is hurting these days, and it’s because...
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Peace in the City: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
No matter how you come to show up on the beautiful Midtown stoop of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian, it will have been a bit of a walk, and a blustery one from the NRW or the FV trains on a winter’s Sunday morning. The greeters at the neo-Gothic doors to the sanctuary know that, however, and when I arrived late to the service on consecutive weeks, they gave me a firm handshake and a knowing sort...