Louis C.K. Gets It

[Ed. note (2025): This post hasn't aged so well. As smart as Louis C.K. might be, there are still some things he definitely does not get.] Louis C.K. is one smart dude. He's not just one of the best standup comics working. He'

The Stations of the Crossposter

RerunJournal

I've been on LiveJournal a long time. I joined in October of 2000, more than eleven years ago. I've posted more than 2,000 entries. If you go to my profile page, you'll see that my user ID (17832) is in the low five

U QT!

Sometimes as I glance through my website's server logs, I see the anonymous messages people have sent through my little Scrabble-izer. Here's one of the sweetest I've seen, which just caught my eye: If you were a Scrabble tile, you'd be a

Shamrock Sharks

Lest anyone unfamiliar with the phenomenon assume I am overstating the fanaticism of Shamrock Shake devotees, let me direct your attention to... ShamrockShake.com ...a message board for confirmed Shamrock Shake sightings around the country. Believe. (One of the saddest recent reports from Illinois, echoing █████'s disappointment, reads: "

Missing the Mark

I end up with some very interesting Google Ads showing up on the page for my Accidental Terrorist podcast. Just now there was a big splashy banner ad for the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute ("Gunfights don't give second chances"). Apparently the Googlemind doesn't

Google Offers Online Giggles Lovingly Ensconced

I love Google for its geeky in-jokes. If you haven't noticed this one before, search for "recursion" and see what the result page offers as a suggestion under Did you mean. I'm also reminded of Inglourious Basterds, which I saw yesterday morning, in which

The Chicago Media Future Conference, June 13th

If you're reading this, I assume you have at least a passing interest, if not a full-blown stake, in the future of online journalism. Most saliently, how can the business of news-gathering and distribution be monetized? Can it ever make money? How will the news business survive in

Listen to My Station on Blip.fm!

Listen to my station on Blip.fm! http://blip.fm/invite/shunn

You're Shaking My Hand with What?

Still the best-ever vandalism of my Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Shunn&oldid=53906941 Who can outdo it?

Apostate

This may be heresy, but I just don't feel as much compulsion to blog now that it's my own time I'm stealing as I did when it was my employers'.

Waiting for the Re-Up

Thanks to Netflix, I've been enjoying a steady diet of The Wire, an episode a day on average—um, sometimes two. I'm nearly to the end of the third season. I watched Episode 10 last Thursday. The fifth disc of Season Three, with the last two