The audacity of meme
Whether or not you believe Barack Obama is Mr. Wonderful, this percolating politics meme is kind of a hoot: Jason Kottke is aggregating tweets that start with "When Obama wins"...
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Bringing “dudical!” back
Dudical! is an expression I remember hearing in elementary school. A clever combination of "dude!" and "radical!", it clearly suffered an untimely demise, because a Google search on it returns a paltry 523 results. I consider it my duty to rescue this '80s linguistic gem from obscurity. ...
Sudoku solver
Use this clever program to solve that sudoku that's got you stumped. Or, with some trial and error, use it to create your own. Here's my first attempt (click to enlarge and print):
How to make ice cream from Pepto-Bismol
Wow.
(Via Boing Boing.)
Your personal annual report
Wow. This guy made an annual report, à la some Fortune 500 company, except it's an annual report of his life. Scary, but it got me thinking: A lot of the data he uses to compile this is stuff we all amass — through airline tickets, credit card ...
So long, Clare!
On Thursday we bid our art director a proper farewell (and by proper I mean tequila-infused). Add your congrats and good wishes below.
a photo gallery...
...and a short video
Peru photos online!
Yes, I've finally posted the photos from my Peru trip back in May.
Check out the photo gallery. (No Machu Picchu pics, because my camera ran out of juice before we got there.)
Alternatives to lawyering
So, I get an e-mail from my friend Adele the other day. We've known each other since high school, when we were co-editors of the student newspaper. She recently finished law school, and now she tells me she isn't so keen on the idea of being an attorney ...
I’m all in
I have never been much of a gambler. In Vegas last year I clung to the nickel slots while Neil went high-rolling at the craps tables. But on a trip to Kansas City over the weekend, I was coaxed into joining a poker match at the home of ...
Eric and Neil crash ‘The Tonight Show’
My friend Neil and I managed to see a taping of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" at NBC studios in Burbank. Jay's guests were actor Mark Wahlberg, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps and one of my all-time favorite musicians, Sarah McLachlan.
This is something I suppose everyone who lives ...
My next assignment: covering online journalism
I've spent 10-plus years working from within to change newspapers in some small way. Now I hope to effect change from the outside. Earlier this month, I left my job as interactive technology editor at the Los Angeles Times to travel and learn and share stories about the ...
Who says newspapers are dead?
The scene at Second and Spring streets, downtown Los Angeles, 2 p.m. PST Nov. 6, 2008:
For the second day since the election, the line of people seeking copies of Tuesday's paper outside the Los Angeles Times building is around the corner. (Copies of the paper are also listed at a substantial ...
New at latimes.com: Slice and filter California election results
In my last few weeks at the Times, I've largely been preoccupied with imagining and building our election data widgets for use on election night. It might seem silly to spend so much time preparing for an event that's over so quickly. But I think we've found at least one ...
Leaving the Times
I want to say something about what took place today at the Los Angeles Times, where I've worked for nearly 5 years. It's a drama that repeats itself in newsrooms across the country and has already taken place more times than I care to count during my tenure at the Times. The ...
Backchannel on blogging
What happens when you put a bunch of bloggers in a room, feed them pizza and moderate a discussion on their craft? You end up with two real-time conversations: One in the physical room and the other in the Twitterverse.
I know that's no surprise to those who populate this corner ...
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