Our friends over at Geekstir posted the final GTA IV trailer yesterday. I thought I would throw it up then. It’s looking really good and the graphics look unreal.

Proving that you went to school in the wrong decade:

Vulture brings us the best quotation of the day from their “Run, Fat Boy, Run” post:

This summer the newly elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s morning jogs had les bien-pensants in a lather. “Western civilization, in its best sense, was born with the promenade,”
a “leading intellectual” sniffed on French television in July. “Walking
is a sensitive, spiritual act. Jogging is management of the body. The
jogger says I am in control. It has nothing to do with meditation.” Quelle vulgarité!

This is why I love George W. Bush! He’s my favorite! Who would pose with this Easter Rabbit?! For reals!

Wonkette

Jenna Bush read to some hormonally challenged adults on Easter. She began to emulate our favorite girl Victoria Beckham – not that other fierce girl, Christian Soriano. She’s not fierce at all. She’s as fierce as an onion bagel with cream cheese.

Additional Reading: Wonkette

She’s fierce and scaring this hormonally challenged man…

… and teaching him how to gargle!

This hormonally challenged man has to be bald. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be covering his head with a little cap.

Mom’s fierce too!

The latest Madonna is awful:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/92617928698ded/

and Culp imitators with a biblical angle proving that imitation is the worst kind of flattery:

A more human method of communication that allows for smoking, lack of eye contact and casual mannerisms while treading deep waters:

from Edge of the American West

More on James Baldwin

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Some people think blogging with 10 dollar words makes it ok:

Think word sushi: delicately-prepared high-quality content that’s easy to consume.

When I think of sushi, I don’t think of fancy phrases -I think of Kate Beckinsale:

You told an interviewer you’d rather eat a vagina than sushi. When stuff you say makes headlines, what’s the reaction of your publicity team? I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything. At least a vagina would be warm. [laughs] My publicist has literally turned a funny color and is going to go have a lie-down. He’s throwing up now, as well. I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what’s on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, “What’s the matter with you?” But I haven’t ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don’t really worry about it.

We would like to take this opportunity to remind the readers to stop blogging.

After the recent upheaval in the prostitution industry that the Eliot Spitzer scandal has caused there has been more of a focus on what you get for your money.

I found this article in New York magazine very enlightening. So, I guess when you pay $2,000 an hour for a hooker, one expects a vagina that will shoot rainbows and possibly sing your favorite tune from the musical Chicago.

Victoria and I, we did a lot of doubles. You do a double, sometimes guys want to, you know, watch. As soon as I saw her coochie, I told Jason, this is special.

Additional Reading: Kate Beckinsale Loves Her Lady Parts, That’s Because They Haven’t Seen MY Vag, The Politics of (Vagina) Style

Web 2.0 Marketing (Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae):

It’s an excellent (and I believe a required) read for any marketers, online or offline. The concepts are the same for both. The information age has started to render the ‘big and slow’ companies obsolete in the way they do consumer business and marketing.

Copacetic » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0

* Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
* Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
* Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
* Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
* Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
* Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS
* Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags
* Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless
* Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing
* Web 1.0 was about IPOs, Web 2.0 is about trade sales
* Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google
* Web 1.0 was about web forms, Web 2.0 is about web applications
* Web 1.0 was about screen scraping, Web 2.0 is about APIs
* Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband
* Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs

For all this nonsense, web businesses that mirror traditional businesses are doing well (structured blogs that replace industry papers, classified sites, retail sites, web directories). Magical sites like Meebo, Pownce and unfortunately myspace (which gets points for its similarity to a phonebook, but sold for web 2.0 hype value) don’t have real business plans; they raise money but don’t have any real world value.

Even Google only operates as an advertising firm. Being web 2.0 is nothing and using web 2.0 marketing techniques is irrelevant. For all the gmail, google reader, google docs, grand central, radio automation, blogger etc… it’s only the ad sales that give them value. It seems like business hasn’t changed, it’s only found a new storefront.

Blogonomics: Gawker’s Payroll, Redux:

Still, cruising around the Gawker Media stats pages (just put /stats onto the end of the domain in question) does make you realize how the Gawker-obsessed media misses much more important writers for the network as a whole. Do you know who Adam Pash is? He’s a blogger at Lifehacker; he got 5.2 million pageviews in January. Dashiell Bennett got 2.8 million pageviews at Fleshbot.I’d assume that Pash and Diaz are making comfortable six-figure incomes blogging, and that a good few of the “site leads” (Gina Trapani, Brian Lam) are as well. Conversely, some of the less popular bloggers are likely getting paid $50-60,000 per year.

Doubt is immediately cast on the numbers by the commentators, but dividing the editorial budget by the relative eyeball power of the bloggers seems like a pretty good way of figuring out the salaries.

Judd Apatow, the director of such hearlded films as Superbad and Knocked Up, has a new movie he produced out this weekend called Drillbit Taylor. The movie follows a drifter (Owen Wilson), who is hired by a group of high school freshman as a body guard. It was co-written by Seth Rogen who is all over the place these days.The premise seems to be set up for a lot of laughs but the trailers I’ve seen haven’t looked that good. Also, the consensus from critics seems to be that it is “the suck”. Let me know what you think if you go see it this weekend.

It’s nice to see Judd’s wife, Leslie Mann, getting some love these days. She was great in knocked up and deserves to be getting more love from casting directors.

This has to be one of the funniest stories I’ve seen in quite some time. Charlie Rose, the PBS host, face planted in order to save his Macbook Air.

Sacrifice the face, protect the computer.

Check Tech Crunch for more hilarity.

It has come to my attention that some mundane slow witted individuals have yet to realize there is a correlation between carbon dioxide and the Earth’s climate. After personally, being involved in climate research over the past 2 to 3 years I have read many articles on the subject. The most convincing arguments are based on carbon sequestration in ice cores.

Let’s take a look on how carbon dioxide correlated with the Little Ice age. The Little Ice Age were a grouping of 3 climatic shifts between 1650 and 1850. h

Please read on for a more convincing argument.

This article provides some insight for the back water folk who have yet to jump on thehot to trot global warming band wagon. It shows how CO2 and climate trends are correlated with one another. For instance, if you look at the figure below, you can clearly see “the Little Ice Age”, which occured between 1650 and 1850.

Additional Reading: RealClimate.org

In Bronx School, Culture Shock, Then Revival – New York Times

Mott, were suspicious, viewing Mr. Waronker as too much an outsider. In fact, one parent, Angie Vazquez, 37, acknowledged that her upbringing had led her to wonder: “Wow, we’re going to have a Jewish person, what’s going to happen? Are the kids going to have to pay for lunch?”

Photo: James Estrin/The New York Times

For some reason people refuse to believe that greenhouse gases are causing the Earth’s climate to change. I have firm beliefs that the Earth’s climate is becoming more intense in terms of heat and cold. Our winter’s are getting colder and our summer’s are getting warmer.

More specifically, I’m writing this in response to What’s up with that?’s post on climate trends being recognized in the early post-industrial era of the 1920’s and 1930’s. I am a geologist. I have some schooling and first hand research that affirms the climate change hypotheses.

Don’t be stupid. It’s happening now. If you are under the age of 30. This will affect you in your lifetime.

New Scientist has a great informational site.

Referenced Article

Michael Jackson and other crazy rich people seem to have similar tastes.

“You know,” he said later, “you can find really good real-estate bargains near nuclear facilities. No one realizes that.”

from The Morning News 

Unfortunately, a euro is worth about $1.50

John Meriwether was the focus of Liar’s Poker, When Genius Failed and is now bottoming out again.

How many of his investors were a part of all three rides?

On the other hand, he picks the bubble well; his most recent fund, JWM partners turned 250 million into 2.6 billion in seven years; proving that you can always make money with enough starting capital, you just can’t predict when you will lose it.