Category: Media & Weblogs
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Today Accidental Blogger enters its fifth year. For the past four years my co-bloggers and I have shared our thoughts with each other and our readers, doing our bit to add to the cacophony of the blogosphere, whether or not anyone was listening. On the past three anniversaries, I reported on the health of the blog and some of the more interesting moments that we encountered on our way. This…
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October 2nd is Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. Check out today's Google logo commemorating the anniversary.
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Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of the New Yorker was interviewed at Big Think about various aspects of humor – its roots, triggers, social utility and form. In the following videos, Mankoff answers some questions: How do men and women use humor in a social situation? When does humor, which almost always originates in bad taste, work effectively?…
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Stephen Bainbridge, a conservative law professor at UCLA, in response to Brian's veganism poll: [T]he efforts by some vegans to turn the issue into a political one, using the state to regulate food choices (see, e.g., foie gras bans), needs to be resisted at every opportunity. But the same Professor Bainbridge on gay marriage: I…
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Brian Leiter has a poll on his law blog asking about veganism as a moral choice. I haven't thought deeply about this — I'm not giving up meat, although I admire those who do — but isn't the poll missing a choice? Given that vegetarianism is more prevalent than veganism, it's plausible that a fair…
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Over at Faculty Lounge, Calvin Massey somehow manages to conclude (1) that Gates acted stupidly and (2) that the police officer did not act stupidly. How? By twisting the facts — beyond even those stated in the official police report. A pedestrian out for a walk notices two men wearing backpacks jimmying open the front…
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What is the problem with Israeli made commercials? A few months ago we featured this ridiculously tasteless spectacle and now a friend points me to another ad from Israel whose makers seem equally oblivious to the implications of the imagery they present. So, some Israeli soldiers are gleefully playing a game of soccer with invisible Palestinians on the other side of the "wall." What does that signify? That the wall has…
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I haven't posted here for a while – probably the longest time since the inception of the blog. I don't know how that has affected regular readership. Although A.B. is not a personal blog, this article about slow and moribund blogs or those whose contents change abruptly resulting in the loss of readership, caught my eye. Back in…
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Bringing new meaning to navel gazing and much, much more, is NCBI ROFL. Am I just giving a shout out to a friend's blog? No — I'm giving a shout out to a friend's blog that posts abstracts from real scientific research articles that are often hilarious enough to have you rolling on the floor…
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Bloggers can continue to rave and rant about anything that suits their fancy. But now the Federal Trade Commission plans to monitor their claims, especially if money or freebies are changing hands. Savvy consumers often go online for independent consumer reviews of products and services, scouring through comments from everyday Joes and Janes to help them find a gem or shun a lemon.…
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If only the problems of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel-Palestine, N. Korea and the Republican right were as easy to swat away! (Link via a friend’s e-mail)
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Some snippy conservative twit outed Publius, of Obsidian Wings fame (measured relative to the blogosphere, of course, which still puts him WAY behind that guy in his mother's basement who suggested some baseball player in Philadelphia might be using PEDs, let alone people anyone actually cares about). He's some law professor, not that it matters…
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I will be posting very infrequently in the month of June. Unless my co-bloggers find the time to write, there will be little new material on the blog until the middle of July.
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Vince Young, the (currently backup) quarterback for the Tennessee Titans, recently said in a radio interview that he wants to start, and if he's not going to remain on the bench for the Titans, maybe it would be best for his career to move on to a team that wants him to play. Paul Kuharsky,…
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