Thought Salad with Croutons
A series of daily thoughts, complaints and my love for pop culture and other oddities of life.
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Photo reblogged from The Daily What
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So This Exists of the Day: Spotted in Cannes: The poster for REAL ACTUAL MOVIE THAT EXISTS You Can’t Kill Stephen King. The flick recently was picked up for international distribution, but no release date yet. Catch the trailer here.
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Sounds AWESOME!
So This Exists of the Day: Spotted in Cannes: The poster for REAL ACTUAL MOVIE THAT EXISTS You Can’t Kill Stephen King. The flick recently was picked up for international distribution, but no release date yet. Catch the trailer here.
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Mixed-race African-Americans have an ethical obligation to identify as black.
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At dawn on Saturday 5 March, National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers and two world class balloon pilots successfully launched a house measuring 16 feet by 16 feet and 18 feet high, using 300 eight-foot coloured weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles. The launch – inspired by the Disney/Pixar film “Up” – set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The house and balloons measured more than 10 storeys high and reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet, flying for approximately one hour. The record will be part of a new National Geographic Channel series called “How Hard Can It Be?” which will premiere in 2012.
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Flowchart of whether or not you are a Slut with Rush Limbaugh accuracy
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Photo reblogged from The Daily What
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Some Dumb Erratum of the Day: In the rush to come up with pun headlines to describe the phenom that is Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, unfortunately it was probably just a matter of time before someone slipped up and said something racist.
But many likely never thought that someone would be ESPN.
Covering the Knicks loss to the Hornets and the snapping of the rising star’s 7-game winning streak, the venerable sports network titled their article “Chink In The Armor.”
The offensive slur-pun was up on ESPN.com for 35 minutes between 2:30 and 3:05 AM.
As Mike Nizza of The Daily points out, the overnight shift lacks the sort of oversight that might have halted such an insensitive headline well prior to publishing, but that’s hardly an excuse.
ESPN has since released a statement apologizing for their choice of words, and vowing to conduct a “complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures.”
[romenesko / screengrab: thanks dmoser2!]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlm7tPdDK1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Some Dumb Erratum of the Day: In the rush to come up with pun headlines to describe the phenom that is Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, unfortunately it was probably just a matter of time before someone slipped up and said something racist.
But many likely never thought that someone would be ESPN.
Covering the Knicks loss to the Hornets and the snapping of the rising star’s 7-game winning streak, the venerable sports network titled their article “Chink In The Armor.”
The offensive slur-pun was up on ESPN.com for 35 minutes between 2:30 and 3:05 AM.
As Mike Nizza of The Daily points out, the overnight shift lacks the sort of oversight that might have halted such an insensitive headline well prior to publishing, but that’s hardly an excuse.
ESPN has since released a statement apologizing for their choice of words, and vowing to conduct a “complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures.”
[romenesko / screengrab: thanks dmoser2!]
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