I already blogged about Jenny McCarthy’s Twitter #JennyAsks fiasco. So when the Washington Redskins encouraged their fans to tweet to Senator Reid in support of the name with #RedskinPride, what could go wrong?
Currently if you do a search on Twitter for #RedskinPride at the top of the page you get images associated with these tweets:
Nazi flags, a mass grave and an article about a mass execution. Oh yeah, that PR move went well…
After only one year, it’s hard to imagine the city without it. Over 8 million trips coverage over 14 million miles. Pretty cool.
From The Incidental Economist, The danger du jour: Fluoride.
Warning, that post involves actual reading, thinking and analyzing data.
Of the 27 studies, 25 appear to be from China. The other two are from Iran. I bring this up not to disparage those countries’ abilities to do research, but to point out that these countries have very different background levels of fluoride than we see in the US. In some of these studies, fluoride levels reached 11.5 mg/L, compared to NYC, which shoots for 0.7 to 1.2 mg/L. Moreover, some of the kids got their fluoride from inhaling it from coal burning, or because it was a pollutant. That’s… not the same as fluoridation here.
Moral: Don’t get your science information from the Huffington Post…
Friday after work, I was looking for a beer on the way home. As I approached my favorite bar I saw the telltale signs of filming. And sure enough, they were shooting the CBS show, Unforgettable, in my bar.
They had finished and were cleaning up, so I didn’t see anyone famous (I’ve never seen the show, so I wouldn’t know who to look for). It was just a delayed opening while they cleaned up the place and got it ready.
The fascinating part was the one guy who stayed behind to completely get the bar looking exactly how it looked before. They must have put something up on a wall and some paint was missing. The wall is an odd dark purple color. This guy had a full palette of colors to match this color and repaint. They had apparently taken before pictures so they knew exactly what it should look like (probably useful for fraudulent liability claims as well).
One of those aspects of show business that you’d never think of…
My wife is out tonight, so on my way home tonight I stopped off at my favorite bar for a beer and a burger. A guy I know was there and he told me that he stopped by because
I have to wait a half hour to get asparagus
I remarked that this was a sentence I could not imagine ever saying. I get it in context, he was at a vegetable place and they were unloading fresh asparagus so he had to wait. But it’s just one of those sentences (“I would be happy to ride your llama”) that I just can’t imagine ever saying.
Hence the title of this post. You might think a random sentence generator created it. If only.
It’s a real theory. Really.
The Simpsons’ Executive Producer, Al Jean, responded to the theory with:
Yes, we had the amazing foresight to predict conflict in the Middle East
Sarcasm is a good thing. Here’s the best explanation I’ve seen. I like that the word “insane” precedes the phrase “conspiracy theory”…
Via Business Insider. I probably watch fewer than 10…
I subscribe to an amusing weather service called Poncho. It’s currently in NYC and Boston only. It’s weather with a personality. You get a brief morning and evening email (or text) with the basic info.
It’s the descriptions of the day that make it good. We had one of those spectacular spring NYC days today. Poncho said:
This is the Monday that all other Mondays should aspire to be
Other examples include:
I APPROVE THIS FORECAST. HIGH OF 57
A bit cooler today, with partly cloudy skies & temps hitting the high 50s. This is the Sunday we need, & a Sunday we can believe in.
Expect rain, gustiness, & temps in the high 40s all day long. Not so fetch. Keep dry & warm!
Today deserves a slow clap for improving so much! Still some chances of scattered rain this evening, with temps dropping to the low 60s.
Temps sink back below into the high 30s this evening. Expect more of the same tomorrow. Was spring just a dream?
I’m not sure how well this can scale, but getting some personality from your new tech service is refreshing.
From the Incidental Economist (which you should read) reporting on CDC findings:
Among 78.6 million children born during 1994–2013, routine childhood immunization was estimated to prevent 322 million illnesses (averaging 4.1 illnesses per child) and 21 million hospitalizations (0.27 per child) over the course of their lifetimes and avert 732,000 premature deaths from vaccine-preventable illnesses
Averted 732,000 premature deaths. Not trivial.
Vaccination will potentially avert $402 billion in direct costs and $1.5 trillion in societal costs because of illnesses prevented in these birth cohorts.
$402 billion dollars. Again, not so trivial.
Or feel free to listen to Jenny McCarthy. She is, after all, attractive…
I couldn’t agree with this more:
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