Michael Sippey

Here's an easy one. From Techcrunch's story about the new Facebook iPhone app. Can you spot the irony? > Hewitt just started working on the feature yesterday, thinking it would be something that would come in the next release, after... - Michael Sippey

From Peter Bodo's Tennis World blog. > One of the themes emerging from this edition of the Championships is that the Williamses may have gotten better with age, even as they've had to struggle with (or simply endure) waning motivation... - Michael Sippey

Fancy Fast Food - McSteak & Potatoes (Fancy Big Mac) Ingredients: .... First deconstruct the Big mac into its parts: (sing along now) two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and a sesame seed bun… plus the french fries, ice, and Coca-Cola. Dice the cheese, cube the middle and bottom buns, and extract the sesame seeds from the top bun. Take the french fries and some pieces of bun and purée them in a food processor with water (melted ice), then top it off with the diced cheese. Rinse the onions and lettuce in a colander and... - Michael Sippey

Mashable: Spam In Twitter Trends, Again (Update: Not Really Spam) > We’ve seen this done before via an onslaught of spammy or malware-infected messages send through dozens of bogus accounts, but this time the spammer seems to have reached trending topics with other methods. In any case, the topic will probably soon be removed, but Twitter definitely needs to work on better spam prevention methods. TechCrunch: Once Again, Twitter Trending Topics Polluted By Spam (Or Not) > Really curious to find out how this is done exactly, but someone somewhere has managed to change a real trending topic on Twitter... - Michael Sippey

I'm testing something out. Please to be ignoring. - Michael Sippey

From Steamboats Are Ruining Everything: Review of Alain de Botton's "Pleasures and Sorrows of Work", here's de Botton's comment:Caleb, you make it sound on your blog that your review is somehow a sane and fair assessment. In my eyes, and all those who have read it with anything like impartiality, it is a review driven by an almost manic desire to bad-mouth and perversely depreciate anything of value. The accusations you level at me are simply extraordinary. I genuinely hope that you will find yourself on the receiving end of such a daft review some time very soon - so... - Michael Sippey

Roger Ebert's Journal:The action scenes can perhaps best be understood as abstract art. The Autobots® and Decepticons®, which are assembled out of auto parts, make no functional or aesthetic sense. They have evolved into forms too complex to be comprehended. When two or more of the Bots are in battle, it is nearly impossible to distinguish one from the other. You can't comprehend most of what they're doing, except for an occasional fist flying, a built-in missile firing, or the always dependable belching of flames. Occasionally one gets a hole blown through it large enough to drive a truck through,... - Michael Sippey

The Times' Moment blog discovers that those cute provincial folks in Portland actually put burgers on their donuts. > Before you go, make sure you are on the high end of the self-esteem meter that day. Maybe you take along a handsome partner in crime to share it with? Grooooaaaaannnnn. Sometimes (more often, lately) the Times drives me NUTS with its provincialism. I **loved** this comment from Minnie. > Note to all New Yorker writers: STOP stalking us. -Love Portland - Michael Sippey