You Didn’t Know Jack
Remember that old game, You Don’t Know Jack? Well, it’s still around (to a certain extent) online.
Wanna play? I embedded one of the latest games. Play You Don’t Know Jack.
Remember that old game, You Don’t Know Jack? Well, it’s still around (to a certain extent) online.
Wanna play? I embedded one of the latest games. Play You Don’t Know Jack.
The Firefox location bar type ahead feature suggests URLs by looking at your bookmarks and recent browsing history. Here’s a look at what fills my location bar after I type only one letter. Aside from being an egomaniac and a degenerate gambler, I seem to be pretty pedestrian when it comes to my browsing habits. Where do your first letters take you?
A – Addictomic
B – Bookmaker
C – Google Calendar
D – Davenetics
E – ESPN
F – Facebook
G – Gmail
H – Haaretz
I – iGoogle
J – Jeff O’Keefe, Copywriter (ad man, friend)
K – Kottke
L – Logitech (Guess I researched that remote a bit much)
M – MyYahoo (still the best for finance and news)
N – Netflix
O – AddictOmatic (I go there a lot)
P – Politico
Q – PanAM 943 rescue (Q?)
R – Addictomatic Recent Searches
S – Andrew Sullivan
U – Delicious Ego Search (I’m sick, I know)
V – Virgin America (recent Vegas trip)
W – Wolf Cooking (My 2 1/2 yr old calls himself little chef)
X – Bookmaker again (Super Bowl LXIII I guess)
Y – Yahoo TV (Tonight’s Picks)
Z – Zoho (where my football betting squad keeps our tally)
I am heavily into TV. Take my word for it. And I am here to tell you, as I have in the past, that Friday Night Lights is clearly one of the best shows on television (the quality level is almost unthinkable given it’s on a network). And yet, year after year, it struggles. And this year is no different.
OK, so quality does not equal ratings. I try to skip the dog bites man news stories. But there is a man bites dog angle here as well.
FNL has a lot of highly attractive people. The line-up includes something for almost any viewer, the aspirational teen, the milf-seeker, the cougar, pervs who write blog posts about TV shows they like, even attractive viewers will find some of these folks attractive – not to mention the fact that FNL features (I am not too proud or uptight to say) the hunkiest male lead on a network show in decades. Taylor Kitsch can out hunk, say, the male leads in Lost without breaking a sweat. There, I said it. Oh, Minka Kelly (his girlfriend on the show) ain’t bad looking either.
So how does a show about teens, football and families with one of the hottest and most talented young, ensemble casts continue to nearly die year after year? I really don’t know.
Here is a really cool documentary, available in full, called Carts of Darkness. It covers a group of homeless guys who use shopping carts as vehicles for sustenance and also for a sort of extreme sport. More importantly, it’s a close look at the folks we usually walk past without paying much attention.
link via the remarkable Jason Kottke
Amid the thousands of candid shots of Obama making the rounds (on the web, posters and t-shirts), Errol Morris asks some photogs to provide their favorite photos of Bush from over the years. Pretty incredible stuff.
link via the great Daring Fireball