Hat tip to laughingrat: io9 has discovered a new rule of thumb, Moff's Law.

Or, in fandom terms, "Meta is fun, chucklehead."

It's astonishing how many places are going for the mistaken "nuance" on the Tiller assassaination. Amy Sullivan's post on Swampland, for instance, finally comes down in the right place, but if she's trying to take the other quoted individuals to task, she's certainly not clear about it. It comes across as, at best, the usual mainstream press he- ( Read more... )

So, the question comes up, as it has in pretty much every blog since the election: whither Fox News ( Read more... )

So in a random fan community on LJ, someone mentioned that (paraphrasing) short-form storytelling, movies and 'purely' episodic TV shows (i.e., ones with no overall season plot arc) in particular, just weren't holding her interest anymore. This got me thinking, because this is largely true for me, too (with some obvious exceptions) for those two ( Read more... )

First of all, I didn't realize that British ads ever emphasized the 'foreignness' of any foods, with the possible exception of curry. Between the legendary blandness of the English palate (at least the Minnesotans have some Scandinavian dishes in their mix), and their annoyance at the US in general, I wouldn't have thought that an ad for a New- ( Read more... )

Oh, good grief.

So can we just call it Faux Pas News now?

First, they call a fist pound a "terrorist fist jab" in a bumper (and, let me just say, does it sound to anyone else in the interview segment like the interlocutor is trying to set it up as a gang sign?). Now, when Penny Arcade is more hip than you are, as a major media outlet, you are in ( Read more... )

So just this week, I wrote on the whiteboard, in letters a foot tall,

CORRELATION
IS NOTCAUSATION ( Read more... )