Louis C.K. on Father’s Day
A little late on this link as Father’s Day was 2 months ago, but a good clip nonetheless.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Apple has accumulated a $76 billion cash hoard. Now, investors are starting to ask just what the consumer-electronics company intends to do with its money pile.
The summary paragraph for an article in the WSJ about Apple’s cash hoard.
I just find this interesting because of the reference to Apple as a “consumer-electronics company.” Most people, including those in the media, still think of them as a computer company, but the Wall Street Journal got it right.
The Party of “No”
David Brooks has been on a roll lately. From another great column, this one criticizing various inflexible Republican constituencies for refusing to compromise with Obama on spending cuts tied to raising the debt ceiling:
Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform has been instrumental in every recent G.O.P. setback. He was a Newt Gingrich strategist in the 1990s, a major Jack Abramoff companion in the 2000s and he enforced the no-compromise orthodoxy that binds the party today.
Norquist is the Zelig of Republican catastrophe. His method is always the same. He enforces rigid ultimatums that make governance, or even thinking, impossible.
Add Asteroids to any page with JavaScript bookmarklet and blow stuff up
Add Asteroids to any page with JavaScript bookmarklet and blow stuff up
OK, this is just too cool. Erik Rothoff has created a bookmarklet that lets you add Asteroids to any web page and blow stuff up!
The game uses JavaScript and the HTML5
<canvas>element to render game elements.To install just drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks, navigate to the page you would like to destroy, and launch the bookmark. Fun!
President Obama, responsibly acceding to the reality of divided government, is now the leading champion of fiscal austerity, and his proposals contain very little in the way of job creation. More important, he no longer uses his office’s most powerful tool, rhetorical suasion, to keep the country focussed on the continued need for government activism. His opponents’ approach to job creation is that of a cargo cult—just keep repeating “tax cuts”—even though the economic evidence of the past three decades refutes such magical thinking. What does either side have to offer the tens of millions of Americans who have settled into a semi-permanent state of economic depression? Virtually nothing. But if responsibility were fused with conviction—if politics were a vocation in Washington today—the Hartzells would be represented at the negotiating table.
George Packer, writing for The New Yorker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbCT6_HAOmM
“Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest” Trailer
My wife emailed me this trailer a few days ago. A Tribe Called Quest is one of a small handful of bands that will forever remind me of the time and place I listened to them the most. For Tribe, it’s I-94 in Michigan at four in the morning. Still true 15 years later. Such strong emotional connections are what makes music so great, and unique among artistic mediums.
The part of the trailer at around 1:08 or so where Q-Tip drops the loop for Can I Kick It? gave me goosebumps. I can’t wait to see this movie.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)