Whale in field, via Yahoo

Gore Vidal n' Norman Mailer on Cavett

The original link is here.

CNN re Wolves

CNN link is here. Feral?

Happy August 1st day

original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESNuvQ_o-G0

I hate to admit I find this guy amusing.(he curses a bit, so arguably this is NS4W.)

Ice cream is national Yahoo! month, on July

The Golden age of ballooning

Because "when you're king of France you have better things to do than go around remembering your bloody number."

2 Time videos 1dec10

The Right's Weird Campaign to End Elections for Senators
by Adam Cohen Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010:Why Ending Elections for Senators Is a Bad Tea Party Idea - TIME

Prison closing, Lyon Mountain, NY



a network of local economies

William Styron's daughter re 1952 Pulitzer voting

via Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes

Tristan da Cunha, etc

original url, Wikipedia article on the Tristan da Cunha Islands.

A very brief (and somewhat inaccurate) Othello

by Awesome British guy.

The potatoe diet, er, the potato e-diet

World o' trash, USA

26 October 2010

from Slate: "The whimsical animators at Taiwan's Next Media offer their take on the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas seeking an apology from Anita Hill."


BofA Says It Reviewed 102,000 Foreclosures in Two-and-a-Half Weeks, but It Won't Say How

CNN: "Businessman Leo Hindery reveals the real unemployment rate and why it's double the official government figure."
(Have you ever embeded a CNN video? Why is their embedding interface so *&#@in' difficult to use? (I've tried embedding with non-standard sizes too, and their interface doesn't tolerate that either.)



Cross-posted at Dead Horse.

facebook blah blah blah

from slate V

Freakonomics real estate video

6 September 2010

http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?vid=21719543

They leave out the part about how Grover Cleveland also brutally supressed striking Pullman workers, and wanted to burnish his image. Also left out: that the US doesn't celebrate labor day on May 1st because "May Day" came to have socialist connotations for some. Of course nobody pays me to be so pedantic in real life, but I can be so here.

the return of epicfu (not in 3D)

the resident: Twitter Sucks (Now)

Ingrid the pit bull

Added On May 18, 2010
A dog shelter in Huntington, New York, offers to purchase Viagra for an adoptive owner. WABC's Josh Einiger reports.

I keep telling myself, "Jonathan Versen, you need more variety here at Hugo Zoom, not just CNN videos." OK, I'll listen to myself, but after this bit about Ingrid the pit bull.