1. Google Android Demo

    Google Android Demo

    Quick demo of Google’s new operating system for phones, shot by someone from the Alice Clancy School of Cinematography (i.e., you will get motion sickness). With the exception of the compass mode at the end, there’s nothing jaw-dropping. What is cool is how quickly …

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  2. For Michelle,

    For Michelle,

    who wanted to know, while watching Lost, why fickleness is always presented as a “female” quality.

    Joe Weider Big

    First she wants to get rid of it, then halfway down the page she’s amazed by it.

    Joe Weider Small

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  3. The AV Club

    The AV Club

    has replaced deadspin as the one place where I read the comments. The first 100 or so in the earth-shatteringly important Square Pegs review are terrific. I’m guessing it’s as much a function of being close in age to the majority of the posters as …

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  4. FBoFW

    FBoFW

    There are a zillion stupid things I’m going to run into that make me realize how much I’ll miss my mom (yesterday’s twin headlines blared at me from the Foster’s paper box: “Super Mom” and “Secrets for a Long Life”), but the thing that’s …

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  5. So …

    So …

    My mom died. I write this, not because I want to bring down the legions of people reading this, but because I need to write about it. Because it sucks, but it sucks in all sorts of weird ways. Some of it I can’t process yet, more than …

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  6. Shocking, Sharpening

    Shocking, Sharpening

    Unbelievable for a Reality TV hater, but I want to talk about Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Such a revelation. Both Fox and BBCAmerica have spent a ton of time making Gordon Ramsay look like a gaping asshole. I finally tuned in like you do passing a car wreck …

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