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Archive for September, 2009

Politico reports on Americans’ growing attention to news:
“Americans’ consumption of political news has expanded over the past decade,” Gallup reported. “The trend may reflect a greater politicization of the American public, regardless of political ideology, as attention is up among all three party groups [Democrats, Republicans and independents]. However, the increase since 2007 (from 30 [...]

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Red Site, Blue Site?

September 29th, 2009 by Mike Decker

We live in divided times, and it probably won’t surprise you to learn that social networking trends are  just as divided along lines of education, income, and geography as the rest of the country.  A report from the folks over at Nielsen reveals that Facebook, with its Ivy League pedigree, is most popular among [...]

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Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na …

September 25th, 2009 by Betsy Mills

It’s three games into Uncle Stan’s tenure as head coach of the Ball State Fighting Cardinals, and signs are already appearing that the chirping fans are ready to see him go.
Behold FireStanParrish.com, an under-construction website devoted to the ultimate demise of the newest Cardinal football coach.
(Ironically, the page ganks this welcome graphic from BallStateSports.com.)
Thanks to Kyle [...]

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Yeah, we know you know. But CNN has a story on it, making it more important than our Twitter and Facebook dribble-bitchings. Right? It’s on the front page!

Even CNN is noting the re-occurrence in a semi-snarky headline.

One thing is for sure: If Google continues this trend of downtime the webizens of the world will collectively lift [...]

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Last year, when everyone had Ball State in the AP poll, Chris Fowler refused until this site (oh, and Jason Whitlock) among other places called Fowler out on his fowl play. Now, back then we compared him to, among other things, a muppet, and we stand by that comparison, even though we prefer the Muppets [...]

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With Neil Patrick Harris hosting the Emmys, it seemed likely that Dr. Horrible (which won an award!) would show up somehow, and he did, as he hacks into the award show, only to be thwarted again by Dr. Horrible. It has some great bits.

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