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Category: culture

Linkwad.

Catching up on things after a bit of a hiatus.

  1. The Footnotes of Mad Men (via Kottke).
  2. Corona saves a man’s life by being gross (via @BoingBoing).
  3. Kenji Lopez-Alt reverse-engineers an In-n-Out burger. He also recreated Mickey D’s fries a while back.
  4. Bill Murray gets interviewed.

Linkwad.

  1. A former writer for The Tonight Show details how Conan got screwed.
  2. Moving may or may not be problematic for kids, especially introverted and neurotic ones. Via @Maryvale.
  3. Was the Toyota runaway vehicle panel unqualified?
  4. New deportation rulings are a step forward, but probably won’t help anyone already kicked out.

Linkwad.

  1. For $250, ColorWare will prettify your iPhone 4, and might fix that “death grip” problem (which, in turn, might not be such a problem after all. Even if it is, it also might be (but probably not) getting fixed on the DL).
  2. The “Son of Sam” killer’s image gets burnished while he’s in jail. I’ve always loved the phrasing of the “Hello from the gutters of New York” Breslin letter, regardless of authenticity.
  3. Who do you write like? Based on this post, I write like Stephen King. My mom is apparently a H.P. Lovecraft fan.
  4. The FCC’s “indecency rules” are bullshit, says the Court of Appeals. Crappy-drawers whiners including the Parents Television Council and Concerned Women for America are appealing.
  5. Fuck what you heard, gang nicknames are awesome. I would love it if people called me “Bloody Batman.” (Via @Maryvale)

Unacceptable.

Literally six days after I started watching Party Down on Netflix, Starz killed it.

Via @DrGrist

Linkwad and an update.

  1. If Wired keeps putting out articles like this, I might finally have to subscribe.
  2. For the seventeen other people who watched Treme, a “post-mortem” Q&A with David Simon. (Via Andy)
  3. “It could always be worse” sums up the MARC train situation pretty well.
  4. It is entirely legal to build a fusion reactor. It’s also awesome. (Via Steve)
  5. If you haven’t read the Rolling Stone piece on Stanley McChrystal, you should. My primary concern involves his affinity for Bud Light Lime.

Updated: “To buy or not to buy” with opt-out information for targeted iAds, via Katy O’D-P.