Author: John Biggs

” Jake Whittenberg is a General Assignment Reporter for ABC 6 News at 5, 6 & 11pm and FOX 28 News at Ten.” – What is going on here? This guy ran the SAME package on Fox 28 in Columbus at 10pm then ABC News ran the same story at 11pm. Is Columbus that hard up for newscasters? Does this happen often?

As a father, I think this kind of jovial torture is important for the mental growth of youngsters. Is it food or will it eat you in your sleep? Feel free to think about this, little fellow, for the next four hours.

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This is the full 1 hour production of Sun Country, produced by Scotch ‘n’ Soda at Carnegie Mellon University. It starred Matt Morrow, Alexis Sottile, Jeremy Lewitt, and Lou Bojarski. Those were seriously the days. The quality is pretty bad – straight from VHS – but you can sort of watch it.

Matt Taibbi comments on the magic of Sarah Palin and what it says about America.

All around me, a million cops in their absurd post-9/11 space-combat get-ups stand guard as assholes in papier-mache puppet heads scramble around for one last moment of network face time before the coverage goes dark. Four-chinned delegates from places like Arkansas and Georgia are pouring joyously out the gates in search of bars where they can load up on Zombies and Scorpion Bowls and other “wild” drinks and extramaritally grope their turkey-necked female companions in bathroom stalls as part of the “unbelievable time” they will inevitably report to their pals back home. Only 21st-century Americans can pass through a metal detector six times in an hour and still think they’re at a party.

I want this. Comments?

The boys and I might start reviewing a few iPhone and Android apps a day. Valuable? Interesting?

This video from blog.vincentlaforet.com essentially turns the value proposition of an HD video camera on its head. If a DSLR can do this amazing work, why bother picking up a camcorder?

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