William M. Hartnett

>Teenager Casts Light on a Shadowy Game (NYT)
Seriously? My wife reports that she knew of kids who actually were doing this at her middle school, a magnet program for academic high achievers, for Opie’s sake.
I must have been the most clueless teenager in the history of the Manatee County public school system, because hearing that [...]

The first outtakes episode is my favorite installment of onBeing so far. As the proprietor of this here web site (or feed, depending on your Hartnett intake preference), I’m making it mandatory that you go watch the clip immediately.

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>Yahoo Mail to offer unlimited storage (CNET)
Does this mean Yahoo is willing to take everything on the 500GB external drive I use at work off my hands? I’m not sure how one tops unlimited storage, but I can’t wait to see Google give it a go. My suggestion: A free file cabinet for every Gmail [...]

Well, not my costume. But US Airways did lose the handmade costumes belonging to this woman and her husband, who take part in historical re-creation groups. Like all good consumers who have been wronged by a company, they registered their complaints via a domain name: usairwayslostmycostume.com.
I love a good homemade web site full of voluminous [...]

>Hacking a More Tasteful John McCain (Mike Davidson)
Like you haven’t seen this already. Nevertheless, the sheer hilarity of the incident, and the very slight chance that you have not already heard about it, makes me feel obligated to offer it here for your consideration and amusement. The full story’s on Newsvine.

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Watching Jack Bauer tenderly look after the mentally challenged brother of the guy selling Dmitri Gridenko information on the nuclear power plant was … weird.
That is all.

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>Caught in the Contradictions (American Journalism Review)
(Via Romenesko)
A story worth reading and passing around your own newsroom. Here’s what I’m calling the key quote, from 28-year-old business reporter Binyamin Appelbaum, on what newspapers need:

“‘More ‘fire,’ says Appelbaum: ‘We’re not smart enough and we’re not funny enough. Stop taking yourself so seriously and produce something people [...]

>Drop in Ad Revenue Raises Tough Question for Newspapers (NYT)
Never mind all the bleak news about the newspaper industry, what’s this paragraph all about?

“Tampa, Fla., which is also recovering from a series of hurricanes, was hit particularly hard, with revenue from real estate ads plunging 44 percent compared with last February. Tampa’s overall classified revenue [...]

… when Battlestar Galactica returns for season four. What’s up with this frakking 10-month break, anyway? In the meantime, be sure to check out this recent Salon interview with Ronald D. Moore, and enjoy this classic commercial for the least fun toy ever made:

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My confident prediction that Florida would handle Oregon was satisfyingly accurate. It’s for the best, really, as it allows Oregonians that were perhaps momentarily distracted by the Ducks’ run to the Elite Eight to return to their traditional fixation on communal gardens and laughable gas-pumping policies.
For someone as willfully ill-informed about college basketball as me, [...]