Even the NYT Noticed How Poopy the new Facebook Is
March 30, 2009 at 2:57 am (Uncategorized)
March 29, 2009
Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?
WHEN Facebook signed up its 100 millionth member last August, its employees spread out in two parks in Palo Alto, Calif., for a huge barbecue. Sometime this week, this five-year-old start-up, born in a dorm room at Harvard, expects to register its 200 millionth user.
That staggering growth rate — doubling in size in just eight months — suggests Facebook is rapidly becoming the Web’s dominant social ecosystem and an essential personal and business networking tool in much of the wired world.
Yet Facebook executives say they aren’t planning to observe their latest milestone in any significant way. It is, perhaps, a poor time to celebrate. The company that has given users new ways to connect and speak truth to power now often finds itself as the target of that formidable grass-roots firepower — most recently over controversial changes it made to users’ home pages.
Some IMF dramz is going down
March 30, 2009 at 2:47 am (Politics)
Rising Powers Challenge U.S. on Role in I.M.F.
WASHINGTON — Barely six months ago, the International Monetary Fund emerged from years of declining relevance, hurriedly cobbling together emergency loans for countries from Iceland to Pakistan, as the first wave of the financial crisis hit.
Now, with world leaders gathering this week in London to plot a response to the gravest global economic downturn since World War II, the fund is becoming a chip in a contest to reshape the postcrisis landscape.
The Obama administration has made fortifying the I.M.F. one of its primary goals for the meeting of the Group of 20, which includes leading industrial and developing countries and the European Union. But China, India and other rising powers seem to believe that the made-in-America crisis has curtailed the ability of the United States to set the agenda. They view the Western-dominated fund as a place to begin staking their claim to a greater voice in global economic affairs.
The World’s Worst Pick-Up Lines
March 30, 2009 at 2:46 am (Humor)
1. Don’t I know you from a past life? INDIA
2. What’s a nice place like this doing around a woman like you? CZECH REPUBLIC
3. I would love to be a farmer and you to be my soil. Our crop would be bananas. NICARAGUA
4. At what time does a hurain like you need to be back in heaven? EGYPT
5. You are smelling very nice to me. BOTSWANA
6. Let’s have cafezinho. I can call you or nudge you. BRAZIL
7. My parents already have engaged us to be married. They just forgot to tell you. INDIA
8. How would you like your breakfast eggs, scrambled or fertilized? NEW ZEALAND
9. So, you like music? LOS ANGELES
10. Does your backside want my phone number? BRAZIL
My Review of “I Love You Man”
March 26, 2009 at 4:52 am (Clips)
I Love You, Man takes bromance to the next level
Sick of romantic comedies? Thanks to Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, stars of the film I Love You, Man, the future of movies lies in the bromantic comedy.
I Love You, Man centers on the engaged Peter Klaven (Rudd), who has gone through life without close male friends, and is now driven to remedy the situation when he realizes he has no one to serve as his best man. When his unconvincingly gay brother (Andy Samberg) sets him up on some “man dates,” hilarity ensues. Eventually, Peter meets Sidney Fife (Segel), which sparks the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming bromance. Rudd and Segel sat down for a conference call last month to discuss the absurd hilarity of the new genre of bromantic comedy.
As one might expect, the best scenes in the movie are those between Rudd and Segel, who play off each other’s absurdity and whose fast-paced dialogue should give audience members enough one-liners to last them until the next Judd Apatow film is released. In a conference call interview with Spectator, Segel described the ambiance of filming by explaining his and Rudd’s “first date” scene: “The director told us, ‘Look, the goal is just to look like you guys are slowly starting to like each other—don’t really worry about a script.’ And then they just gave us four hours of fish tacos and beer and we just had to talk and be funny and enjoy each other’s company—it was very, very easy and very, very fun.”
Some good Overheard In New York’s
March 26, 2009 at 1:20 am (Humor)
Guy: So I was talking to this hot girl the other day, but then she told me she liked Bush.
Girl: Oh…she’s a lesbian?
Guy: No! Bush!
Girl: Oh, the band.
Guy: No, Bush! She’s a Republican!
Girl: Wait. What?!
–Times Square
Woman: Your doctors told us not to let you have any alcohol, because of your medication.
Elderly woman: Okay. I’ll just have beer then.
–F Train
(Asian tourist walks onto subway with large panda-head shaped hat)
Random guy: Take off that silly ass hat!
–Uptown 1 Train
Drunk guy to orthodox Jew: Nice lid.
–Near Herald Square
Obama hires face ‘vetting hell’
March 24, 2009 at 3:22 pm (Politics)
Tim Geithner may be the latest political piñata in Washington these days, but — policy aside — there may be another reason he is the one fellow everyone is picking on at Treasury: He’s there alone.
elieve it or not, Geithner is the only confirmed official at his department. Some top nominees, even those who have served in government before, have decided to withdraw. Others are still pending as they go through arduous background checks that one pro-Obama Democrat calls “maddening vetting hell.”
