For some inscrutable reason, Playboy is taking votes for "the Web’s hottest blogger." While I have no particular quarrel with the nominees, and indeed I predicted something similar two and a half years ago, this strikes me as unnecessarily one-dimensional.
I’m not taking any kind of moral position here. I like to look as much as the next guy, unless the next guy happens to be Benedict XVI; I just prefer to keep gawking and reading in two separate sections of the brain. Makes life so much easier. And besides, I have no grasp of the Hefnerian Zeitgeist, despite having paid actual money for the magazine for twenty-five years.
(Found in the comments section of The Breda Fallacy; Breda wants you to know that if you ever nominate her for such a thing, she will hurt you. Bad.)
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Not that you’d noticePost Date: 2008-03-26 13:00:09
The text size for non-blockquoted material in the content column — not in the sidebar — has been boosted ever so slightly. (Stuff in blockquotes was left alone, for the sake of greater differentiation.)
Also, the dark red background is no darker, and no redder, but a bit wider: it’s now 1680 pixels. Those of you who have screens 2000 pixels wide — well, you’re lucky....
Hugs, not thugsPost Date: 2008-03-26 09:07:38
Tom Ziller points out the obvious:
Here’s a fact: A vast swath of America thinks the NBA is a haven for thugs. A lot of people see black skin, jewelry, rap music, and tattoos and think of gun play and drug trades. Of course, the NBA’s police blotter has been no worse than those for the other two major sports. And it isn’t like the NFL doesn’t have black people, or baseball players don’t get tattoos. But the ’thug’ label continues to stick to the NBA in...
We both know what’s been going onPost Date: 2008-03-26 07:00:36
"It’s a bit spooky, innit?"
So saith Rick Astley, on the phenomenon of "Rickrolling".
You wouldn’t get this from any other guy....
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