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• Today in the Present, John Hodgman Has a Podcast

  
  Comedy Central Insider Blog — Authority: 514
  Before the advent of podcasts, if you were an illiterate who wanted to enjoy the work of a famous author, you had to hope his or her writings were translated into rebuses. But today, in the present, it is the future, and we have podcasts. And while theyve been detrimental to the once-thriving rebus industry, podcasts ...
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• Weekend Shopping Guide 11/13/09: KNOWLEDGE!

  
  Quick Stop Entertainment — Authority: 521
  The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know ...
  3 days ago

• John Hodgman Thinks Geek Culture Will Rule

  
  Fucked In Park Slope (FIPS) — Authority: 544
  In a recent interview with the Kansas City News, our fave Park Slope expert on all things everwhere, John Hodgman, explains that though we all used to all embrace the "Jock model" of competition and strength, the future is gonna be all about idolizing and embracing the geeks and the nerds: "Jockdom is very noble. ...
  3 days ago

• John Hodgman 5QQ (Plus, Video!)

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 804
  John Hodgman is an expert. That’s what his books are about, that’s what he does on the Daily Show , that, at least, is what he thinks he is in those ubiquitous Mac vs. PC ads, which if they were a teen comedy would no doubt end up with him scoring the hot girl. It’s not a bit, either — he comes by his ...
  5 days ago

• Get a Mac – Broken Promises

  
  fasthack — Authority: 139
  Check out the late 80s version of PC.
  5 days ago

• Misc.

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 484
  Misc. * Ezra Klein argues Nancy Pelosi is playing three-dimensional chess . * "Tea Party" is now a registered party in Florida. Excelsior! The skys the limit. * John Hodgman now has a daily podcast . * 40 House Democrats are now threatening to vote no on the health care conference bill unless Stupak is ...
  6 days ago

• Daily Dose Pick: Inventory

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 737
  With Inventory, the Onion’s pop-cultural critics at the A.V. Club provide a hilarious compendium of their ultra-specific weekly lists.From a dozen songs about how much public transportation sucks and ten movie franchises that never were to 25 sure signs that a sitcom is terrible, Inventory provides an exhaustive ...
  6 days ago

• Asia Pacific Search Volume Reaches Record Level in September

  
  Ad Operations Online — Authority: 482
  Local Players and Global Brands Compete for Top Spots across Markets Singapore City, Singapore – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, released its latest report on search activity in the Asia-Pacific region based on data from its qSearch service. The study found that 38.6 billion ...
  1 week ago

• Season Finale: Bored to Death – “Take a Dive”

  
  Cultural Learnings — Authority: 476
  “Take a Dive” November 8th, 2009 I was going to write about how it’s been a while since I’ve checked in with Bored to Death here at Cultural Learning before I realized that, in fact, I’ve never checked in on it at all. I watched the pilot and was intrigued if not overly engaged, and since that point ...
  1 week ago

• Review: Bored to Death - Take a Dive (season finale)

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 723
  ( S01E08 ) "You think we learned anything tonight?" - Jonathan Ill tell you what I learned -- Bored to Death has a lot of potential. All season long, Ive gone from loving to hating to loving this show, and with the season finale now come and gone, theres a real opportunity here for Bored to Death to become ...
  1 week ago

• John Hodgman: Master of In-Car Martial Arts

  
  Comedy Central Insider Blog — Authority: 514
  Now, I know youve seen a lot of videos of guys kicking Fresca bottles off other guys heads in 2006 Hyundais. Videos of guys kicking Fresca bottles off other guys heads in 2006 Hyundais are the Keyboard Cat of Q4 2009. But trust me when I say, before you declare videos of guys kicking Fresca bottles off other guys ...
  1 week ago

• Show Your Disgust With Corporate Greed While Earning Valuable Reward Points

  
  CD (Certificate of Deposit) Rates, Money Market Rates, High Interest Savings Accounts — Authority: 425
  Jon Stewart begins this segment of The Daily Show by worrying that we’re never going to see any serious reform of the banking and financial industry.“You get the sense they want to preserve as many loopholes as possible,” Stewart says. “It’s kind of like we’re going to cut down on robberies. From now on ...
  1 week ago

• John Hodgman plays new audio book in New York – photos

  
  David Shankbone — Authority: 510
  John Hodgman, known for his personification of a PC in Apple’s “ Get a Mac ” campaign and as a correspondent on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show , has just released the audio book of More Information Than You Require . Below are photos for its release at Barnes & Noble’s Union Square megastore. ...
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• John Hodgmans Charlie Sheen Joke Is Better Late Than Never

  
  Comedy Central Insider Blog — Authority: 514
  Speaking of award shows , John Hodgman recently moderated a panel with the stars of Bored to Death , and Vulture asked him if there were any jokes he regretting not being able to make when he served as a hired wise-cracker at this years Emmys: "It was not my joke, but its one that I kind of wish we had a ...
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• Review: Bored to Death - The Case of the Stolen Sperm

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 723
  ( S01E07 ) "I dont mean to be rude, but I was transporting chilled semen." - Ray What a great way to set up the season finale! At this point, Im not sure Bored to Death has turned out to be anything like what HBO originally green-lit, but, despite its many ups and downs, it sure has been fun to watch. Not ...
  1 week ago

• Watch and Learn

  
  professional auditionee — Authority: 115
  A week ago I attended the first annual Boston Book Festival .  It sounded fun and there was a superb lineup of speakers/authors .  While I didnt get to attend every session my heart desired, I did sit in on three great ones that were not only informative but which left me, surprisingly, with a single realization ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Invention of Lying (2009) ★★★½

  
  The Moving Arts Film Journal — Authority: 427
  Who wants to have fat kids with snub noses?  Jennifer Garner sure doesn’t, and if you’re being honest, you probably don’t either.  The difference between our world and the one Garner and Ricky Gervais occupy in “The Invention of Lying” is that here, such a declaration on a first date, especially when that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday. Love.

  
  Gigantic — Authority: 92
  This week we love geeks. In a recent interview in  The KansasCity News , John Hodgman (arguably a posterboy for geekdom) offers up: Ithink that we are necessarily moving toward a geek culture. The health of oursociety is going to rely on information technology. It’s going to rely on afamiliarity ...
  2 weeks ago

• [Video] John Hodgman Explains How Wall Street CEO’s Can Change Their Image

  
  Morninpaper — Authority: 492
  Post Hodman also introduces us to the new "Angry Mob Platinum Diamond Card" A credit card that allows us to express our age. Click the VIDEO tab above to watch clip. NOTE: Allow a few seconds for the clip to LOAD VIDEO Please Let us know if there are any problems with the clip The Daily Show With ...
  2 weeks ago

• Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category (2004)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 425
  SOUNDTRACK : ONE RING ZERO-As Smart as We Are (2004). I had this CD sitting around my house for about 4 years.  I had received it as a promo disc from Soft Skull Press (along with several other books on CD) and I just never put it on.  Then one day I was going through all these promos to see if any were ...
  2 weeks ago

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