Dear Sony, Warner, et al,

I read a lot of blogs. When I see the warning above on a blog I’m reading, I don’t click through. I just move on. Someone else will entertain me. I don’t need you. Keep that in mind.

Todd

Things seem awfully heated in America right now

No, not really.

Millions are hopping mad over the news that a bunch of triumphalist Muslim extremists are about to build a “victory mosque” slap bang in the middle of Ground Zero.

No, not really. Millions?

Instead, 70% of Americans are opposed to the “Ground Zero mosque”

That sounds like complete bullshit. I bet 0% of the people I know care.

According to a recent poll, one in five Americans believes Barack Obama is a Muslim

Who are you polling?

This doesn’t sound like the America I live in so really, journalists, give up.

Via the Washington Examiner.

[via Buzzfeed]

Great section here:

But you asked how you get the comic pitch. Well, obviously a lot of it is rhythm. And as often as not, it’s the surprising rhythm. In life and in movies, you can usually guess what someone is going to say—you can actually hear it—before they say it. But if you undercut that just a little, it can make you fall off your chair. It’s small and simple like that. You’re always trying to get your distractions out of the way and be as calm as you can be [breathes in and out slowly], and emotion will just drive the machine. It will go through the machine without being interrupted, and it comes out in a rhythm that’s naturally funny. And that funny rhythm is either humorous or touching. It can be either one. But it’s always a surprise. I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.

What I think is so weird is the Ghostbusters adulation. Am I the only guy rooting against a sequel?

1. It is more important to reduce the Effort of Maintenance than it is to reduce the Effort of Implementation.
2. The Effort of Maintenance is proportional to the complexity of the system.

I have worked on so many projects that rushed a hard-coded website out the door than take the time to set up a content management system which would reduce the Effort of Maintenance down the road. Reading this in such a perfectly stated way makes me re-experience the frustration of all these projects.

[via Minimal]

I submitted a paragraph from Idea Man — a short story that’s been sitting on this site for a while. And got this analysis which sounds great to me:

I write like
Ian Fleming

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

And make sure to check out these lulz.

[via Buzzfeed]