We here at Um swear that this will not become UM: The All Heavy All the Time Super Nerd Blog. But having been blessed with the opportunity for a nice, neat follow-up on what we ran yesterday about universal western government (or something), we decided that we should bite.
Which brings us to today’s installment of [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 31, 2008
More Thoughts on Bullshit Nation Building
January 30, 2008
Here Come the Denials!
Courtesy of I Want Media, via Romenesko: Says Google content honcho David Eun, “frankly, the New York Times is a fantastic partner of ours. And that’s one message that is important for folks to understand. We have thousands of partnerships. The New York Times, for example, is a partner in the Google AdSense program. We [...]
January 30, 2008
States Right?
Okay. So I may be in WAY over my head here, but I’m gonna take a crack at talking about nations and nationality and that sort of crap. Maybe if y’all are lucky, you’ll get a more breezy post later in the day.
I was spurred to action by this and this–articles, respectively, about the possible [...]
January 30, 2008
Minor Post
Just a quicky (courtesy of my pal Chris) to tide all y’all over ’til I get something real up: Make sure you check out the song titles.
January 28, 2008
BAD BAD JAAAAAAS
Just got an email from Amazon announcing that I could pre-order something called 19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England’s Unbeatable Patriots. This would, presumably, be just like other books done by the Boston Globe in honor of other glorious Hub-related sporting triumphs.
Um?
Couple things: 1) HELLO. THE SUPER BOWL HASN’T BEEN PLAYED YET. [...]
January 28, 2008
More Spe-g-ulation…
Forced Head? Maybe, but not as forced as folks in-the-know might suggest the continuing speculation about a Google purchase of the New York Times is. (Or, at least, as forced as that last sentence was.)
Anyway. The latest entry into the GnewYorkTimes fantasy is something from the Guardian’s Dan Kennedy, who writes–underneath a hefty disclaimer–that “when [...]
January 28, 2008
Weirdness in Seattle
Cliche has it that it rains a lot in the northwest. And though that’s a probable truth, my memories of Seattle mostly feature the sun and a pretty neat-o vista that included a fine peek at Mt. Rainer.
What you’ve just read? That constitutes the entirety of what I know about the Emerald City. (Really? The [...]
January 25, 2008
Porn Update!
Remember me? I was–as would any entity with a sense of what’s amazing about life–discussing this with some friends last night. And, according to a bro in the kno, it doesn’t really take much to wrack up, say, 200 porn hits in a business day. Turns out, he says, whenever a file is requested from [...]
January 24, 2008
Porn: Sure Beats Working
Washington City Paper political columnist Mike DeBonis has an awesome job. At least he did yesterday, when, at 2 p.m. he found himself summoned to a presser where he’d get to hear all about a recent District crackdown on employee internet porn use. And from the read of it, the trip sounds like it was [...]
