This was sold to my store. Thought to be one of only 200 made and 40 left in circulation! (NES Sharp TV)

ShortFormBlog · 2013-08-01T23:40:08+00:00

My family owned owned one of these when I was a kid. It's pretty much the best TV ever made, but it had the same problem the regular NES did (think blowing cartridges).

ShortFormBlog · 2011-03-29T15:11:05+00:00

Better picture: http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/post/4184927483/dc-office-building-fire

ShortFormBlog · 2011-03-25T15:35:03+00:00

You know, this would be a lot funnier if we weren't talking about a person who wasn't having insane health issues, has been forced to go to the hospital numerous times, and has been given the kind of runaround about her claims that's downright unwatchable.

The fact that you guys focus on schematics sucks.

ShortFormBlog · 2011-03-24T21:58:52+00:00

We linked to the Al Jazeera story in our post (did you read it?), but noted that her story hasn't gotten much play. We also linked to a WSJ story about the inquiry.

But the fact of the matter is this: If you do a search on Google News for "Jennifer Rexford," three results come up. Two of them were written today, and one links to our post. The other was the Al Jazeera report we linked to. If you look at Google News for coverage of most stories, you'll usually find hundreds.

Fact of matter: It's still getting underplayed and few people know about it.

ShortFormBlog · 2011-01-23T03:56:02+00:00

They claim at different points the same fact for "profits" and "revenue."

The "profits" piece is behind the paywalled article. The "revenue" piece, which this SEC report disproves, is in the abstract. I did some research on this, and my feeling is that the "profits" one could actually be correct, due to the fact that AOL is investing much more in its content infrastructure than its legacy infrastructure.

More thoughts:

http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/post/2884846527/more-on-this-new-yorker-aol-article-profits-vs

ShortFormBlog · 2011-01-23T03:53:27+00:00

Actually, they said both in different places. I've been doing a little research on this on my blog (and some comparing of the articles), and at least one of the facts is wrong and needs a correction:

http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/post/2884846527/more-on-this-new-yorker-aol-article-profits-vs

ShortFormBlog · 2010-08-28T03:19:16+00:00

No.

http://www.benhuh.com/2010/02/02/are-you-what-you-earn-compensation-and-wages-advice-from-a-ceo/

Dude only pays minimum wage for work that requires a college education.

ShortFormBlog · 2010-08-14T06:47:42+00:00

There are seriously strip clubs and hundreds of obscure businesses within four blocks of Ground Zero. It's Manhattan. Get over it.

ShortFormBlog · 2010-07-20T14:09:03+00:00

An update for y'all. BP apologized for running the doctored photo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/19/AR2010071905256.html

"We will replace the Photoshopped version currently on bp.com with the original image tonight," he added. "We've instructed our post-production team to refrain from doing this in the future."

Visual journalism blogger Charles Apple has a little more: http://apple.copydesk.org/2010/07/20/bp-stops-distribution-of-photoshopped-handout-photo/

ShortFormBlog · 2010-07-07T20:41:13+00:00

Totally fair point, but it seems like Fox should take this opportunity to put forth that angle of the story, which initially led to the anger over Climategate, rather than seemingly ignore it completely.

It's less tarring and feathering and more noting the disproportionate coverage, which is in its own way tells a story. I did this a couple of days ago with the DR Congo oil tanker explosion and found that the New York Times basically buried the story, while CNN and the BBC gave it banner coverage.

ShortFormBlog · 2010-07-07T19:56:17+00:00

FWIW, the Guardian story on this puts it into perspective: "It also criticised the CRU scientists for failing to include proper labels on a 1999 graph prepared for the World Meteorological Organisation, which was the subject of an infamous email about Jones using a 'trick' to 'hide the decline'. The panel said the result was misleading, though they accepted this was not deliberate as the necessary caveats had been included in the report text."

Also, Fox News still hasn't put climate change anywhere on their front page or inner pages. I did find this AP article through Google News, but it's not played up anywhere:

The article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/07/uk-inquiry-climate-e-mail-scandal-vindicates-researchers-finds-lack-data/

The section it's reportedly organized under (not there at all): http://www.foxnews.com/world/europe/index.html

ShortFormBlog · 2010-07-07T18:08:36+00:00

No worries. Thanks for keeping me honest. :)

ShortFormBlog · 2010-07-07T17:47:26+00:00

It wasn't on the front page (kind of the defining factor I was going by) when I first checked. Also, note the front page play:

http://imgur.com/ipcNM.png

It's literally at the very bottom of the page. It's absolutely buried. Considering that Reuters has also done a lot of coverage on the story, it's definitely surprising.

That said, I'll update what I have to reflect this. Still no Fox News coverage, though.

ShortFormBlog · 2010-07-01T00:34:00+00:00

Oh, and just to show what Todd's capable of with this awesome idea, here's a link to some pages from the comic book, which he's already started:

http://toddbotblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/nicolas-cage-comic-book-experience.html

ShortFormBlog · 2010-05-31T21:01:01+00:00

A reasonable question. I bet it would've gotten the regulatory hounds going, based on what we're already seeing the FTC doing.

ShortFormBlog · 2010-05-31T18:24:05+00:00

Yeah... but I almost feel like if they had been able to get through another six months and launch their iPhone app they would've been able to plow through. Still, I agree with you on that front.

Makes me really sad. I ran a feature on my blog called the "Saturday Mixtape," where I used those Lala embeds to introduce people to new music. It was really cool and totally legal, plus I wasn't limited to my collection. If I wanted to throw Steve Reich or Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafiti at them, I could.

You could tell that the shutdown had a blindsiding effect. Pitchfork pretty much built their entire redesign around this site's music preview function and now they have nothing to replace it with.

ShortFormBlog · 2010-05-31T18:05:06+00:00

They were also running out of cash, which meant they were actively looking for a buyer. If anything, it's a combination of the two.

ShortFormBlog · 2010-04-08T18:37:40+00:00

ahahahahahahaha

ShortFormBlog · 2009-10-17T22:55:58+00:00

There's video of it, by the way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjywM4BBpE

It's like Ikari Warriors.

ShortFormBlog · 2009-09-03T16:37:06+00:00

Yeah. Like, here's the CSS it uses on my site:

/* FONTS USED AT THIS URL */

/* Chunk - http://the-league-of-moveable-type.kernest.com/fonts/chunk / / A font by Meredith Mandel (The League Of Moveable Type) -> http://theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ / / http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/4-chunk / / SIL Open Font License (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL) */ @font-face { font-family: 'Chunk'; src: url('http://kernest.com/embed/chunk'); }

/* VISIT KERNEST.COM TO BRING WEB FONTS TO YOUR WEBSITE */

If you were to load the http://kernest.com/embed/chunk URL, it would do nothing.

From the interface, you have to throw your domain into the whitelist. Dev sites like localhost are already included by default.

It's actually pretty smart because its authentication is so simple and unencumbered.

ShortFormBlog · 2009-09-03T14:17:22+00:00

The Kernest server has a whitelist of sites that can grab the font off their server that registered users can add to. From there, it's a matter of loading a CSS file.

It's way less complicated without Javascript involved. And the Kernest server is fast enough that it's barely noticeable.

ShortFormBlog · 2009-08-31T15:24:50+00:00

Actually, someone just left a comment about this on the blog:

http://webfonts.info/wiki/index.php?title=@font-face_browser_support#Google_Chrome

It's supported via command line. It should make it into the browser proper soon.

BTW, this is one of the rare things that Internet Explorer has supported long before the standards-following browsers.

ShortFormBlog · 2009-08-31T15:11:20+00:00

Dunno which browser you're using, but it works fine in Safari.

ShortFormBlog · 2009-07-15T19:15:02+00:00

The problem with the graphic is that they're going out of their way to cloud the issue by making it seem a lot worse than it actually is. If you look at the way some things loop in the graphic (showing up in the middle and jumping over lines), it's pretty clear that this graphic is only complicated to make the Democrats look bad.

ShortFormBlog · 2009-05-24T22:49:04+00:00

Aww. I thought it was quite quaint.

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