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“Do you mean: poop suit?” Google asked. It was that kind of week.
A giant turd was terrorizing Manhattan — lurking in Central Park and Times Square, trying to gain entry to the United Nations. Even UN Week’s Digital Media Lounge had to batten its hatches against the fearsome feces, which taunted the inhabitants via Twitter:
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It’s shaping up to be a good year for Pittsburgh, with its Steelers winning the Super Bowl, its Penguins winning the Stanley Cup finals, and the G20 economic summit being held there in September. It doesn’t get much better than that for a city many considered to be past its glory days.
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Jonathan Mann music video about the torture memos in language taken directly from them. Chilling.
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Surowieki asserts that, historically, companies that invest in advertising during a depression pull ahead — way ahead — of their competitors.
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Fuck You, Penguin: A blog where I tell cute animals what’s what.: The new Wired magazine pointed me to this site, and it is pretty funny. Bad language complements the snarky commentary on animals cute, odd, or indifferent.
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Our fifty states matter a lot less than our 100 largest metro areas, posits this intriguing article in Democracy.
