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Please Rob Johnny Cash's Letterhead [Five Best Things 2/22/10 - 2/28/10]

Posted by Jason on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 9:53pm

In our weekly link rundowns, I usually try to present three great links you may have missed.

But this week was strong internet.

Five.

  • For your next love letter or grocery list or PUT DOWN MY SANDWICH note, wouldn’t you like to use the actual letterhead of Elvis Presley, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Johnny Cash, or whatever Robot Salesmen Ltd is? Thing: Letterheads of famous people
  • Most articles about How Google Works are actually about How Much The Author Likes Google. Leave it to Wired to dig into how Google’s system of algorithms, basically a machine made of robots made of math, learned that when a human types hot dog, the goal is almost certainly to see something like this, not something like this. Thing: Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
  • You’ve already made your mind up on how you feel about this link from Reason. Thing: Everyone Who Knows What They’re Talking About Agrees with Me
  • The way people freaked out about Napster, claiming it would end the music industry, is similar to the way people freaked out about VCRs killing the movie industry. Similarly, the way people freak out about sharing personal location information on Foursquare/Twitter is similar to the way people used to freak out about answering machines and listing wedding notices in the local newspaper. Thing: Regarding Foursquare and PleaseRobMe (SIDE NOTE that proves how NEVER SCARED we are: In all the PleaseRobMe hysteria, I up and joined Foursquare myself, and so did Ben. You ain’t a crook, son.)
  • Recently the Guardian ran a series of writing advice lists by successful writers. NY Mag distills them all into a single top ten. Thing: The Best Writing Advice of the Best Writing Advice

Also, regarding this post’s stupid, stupid title: here’s proof Johnny Cash would’ve loved Foursquare…

The Shoddy Aughties: Best of the Decade's Worst Lists

Posted by Jason on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 4:52pm

Heads up, friends: This post is part of ENGINE’s decade-closing blogsplosion. Click here to witness the rest of the damage. The aughties!

It’s time for the exhaustive list of the Worst _____ of the Decade lists.

Y2KWe try to be positive. But come on. When Pew concludes it was the worst decade in 50 years, and Time drops the 10 Worst Things about the Worst Decade Ever, it’s hard to forget this decade kicked off with Y2K — not just a fail fail, but the biggest fail fail ever — and has only gotten more and more bailouty and wardrobe malfunctionous since.

Would love to list nice things; just filling a void here. Kottke’s already got the best lists list covered. It has some worsts too, but isn’t nearly as horrific as what you’re about to endure Also, Fimoculous has the 2009 list of lists up and running — perfect for those getting the shakes at staring down the barrel of all ten years at once.

Our next entry in our series will be as pleasant as can be. But it’s darkest before the dawn. Wade into the shock and awful.

Worst 2000s Lists

Worst Ads, Branding & Marketing


Via 10 Worst Green Brand Names by Fast Company

Worst Books, Magazines, & Newspapers


Via 30 Worst Women’s Magazine Covers by BuzzFeed

Worst in Business


Via 15 Biggest PR Disasters by Business Insider

Worst Cars


Via 10 Worst Cars by Jalopnik

Worst Celebrities


Via 10 Worst WWE Heavyweight Champions by Bleacher Report

Worst Computers & Web Stuff


Allegedly a website, via 10 Ugliest Websites by WXYZ.com

Worst Design


Via 12 Worst Web Design Trends by Web Hosting Help Guy

Worst Fashion


Via 10 Worst Hair Trends by the Frisky

Worst Food & Drink


Featured in 10 Worst Fast Food Meals by Time. Image via flickr

Worst … General


Featured in 11 Worst Ideas by the Washington Post

Worst in Money


Featured in 10 Worst Athletes to Ask for Financial Advice by Real Clear Sports

Worst Movies & Theater


Via 10 Worst Hindi Movies by Greatbong

Worst Music


Via 25 Worst Album Covers (NSFW) by Gunaxin Media [Somehow, the nuclear reactors make less sense than the pigs that are immune to pig flu.]

Worst in Politics


Via 12 Most Shocking Sex Scandals by the Huffington Post

Worst Products


Via 10 Worst Tech Products by CNET

Worst Science & Tech


Featured in 10 Worst Moments in Science by Smithsonian Magazine

Worst in Sports


Via The Decade’s Worst NASCAR Paint Schemes by Fanhouse

Worst TV


Featured in 10 Worst TV Shows by Complex

Worst Videogames


Via 10 Worst Games by GameWad

That’s it! You survived the worst decade since the 1360s.

That wasn’t so bad after all!

Got more? Send them my way.

Three Best Things: 9/14 - 9/20

Posted by Jason on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 3:53pm
  • Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences: Most literature snobbery is nothing but player-hating. We say, if a crappy author makes $1M/paragraph, well, good for them. But after reading these passages by Da Vinci Code bajillionaire Brown… How would you react if a high school student asked you for writing help and showed you these lines? Where do you begin? Just take one look at “He could taste the familiar tang of museum air” and start envisioning barrels of money? Elsewhere in books: Classic Book Titles, if They Were Written Today.
  • The best thing written about Kanye this week: “As a society, we must come together and root for Kanye West to continue to create content & headlines … This is more than about needing ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ to create conflict and news. We need a stream of content that we can continually reflect upon. This is why we miss Michael Jackson so much, we had the opportunity to have fun watching him fall apart together. It was legitimately a bullying process that rallied all humans together.” Elsewhere in rudeness: Thank Kanye, Individualism Interrupted Your Speech, Taylor Swift!, Why the shock about Joe Wilson?, and Michael Jordan: The Man, the Myth. Whew!
  • Finally, a little heartwarmer. Oft-wayward NFL player Vince Young has taken on a big-brother role in the lives of two fatherless young boys: the sons of his mentor, fellow quarterback Steve McNair, who was murdered this summer. It’s a touching story, but when you add in the other sad circumstances — McNair was killed by his mistress, and Young has struggled with maturity issues since becoming a pro (to put it lightly… at one point, he was on suicide watch) — it’s easy to get a little misty. Elsewhere in heartwarming: that’s all I have. Sorry.

Also, did you hear Mattel (the world’s largest toy company according to Wikipedia) has switched to Drupal? It was all over CNN. No, it wasn’t.

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