As much as I hate to blog about stuff that other people have already blogged about, I would be remiss if I did not address the needs of those of my readers who come to The Shine for all of their news needs. Here are some stories that other blogs have been tracking, that I…
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The New Yorker Takes On Pop Culture
Tad Friend on The Office (US) vs The Office (UK) Sasaha Frere-Jones on Joanna Newsom George Saunders on Borat
iPod 5G Firmware Update
iTunes just prompted me to update my iPod firmware to version 1.2.1. According to what I could find, this update consists of mostly bug fixes. Dang! No 5.5G style search menu, c’mon Steve, throw me a bone.
Free Movie Ticket From Fandango
Get a free movie ticket from Fandango here compliments of HP.
Have Alec Baldwin Call You
First Sam Jackson, then Dwight Schrutte, now Alec Baldwin, will the promotional voice mails ever cease? Well, not if I have anything to say about it, there’s nothing I love more than annoying my busy friends with canned messages of celebrities promoting their TV shows and movies. Go here to make your custom 30 Rock…
Truthiness Again
The Colbert Nation strikes again. Voters who took part in an online poll for Merriam-Webster have picked “turthiness” as their Word of the Year for 2006. You may recall that the First American Dialect Society picked “truthiness” as the Word of the Year for 2005 (that award is usually referred to as the offical “Word…