Go look at them full sized and be awed.
Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Presidential
Boston.com has some incredible pictures of Barack Obama in their The Big Picture feature:
Go look at them full sized and be awed.
Go look at them full sized and be awed.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
This Day In History
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Everyone, Bow Your Heads
And Pretend To Be Serious
Finally we have a bit of closure to Boston's imaginary bomb scare. (Previous blogs: 1, 2, 3)
Boston is dropping its charges against the two poor schmucks who got offered $300 a piece by a marketing company to place brightly-lit Mooninite pictures around the city.
Unfortunately this news did not come with an apology by Boston officials.
Link to Boing Boing article.
Speaking of Boston, have you heard Mayor Menino speak? He makes George W. Bush sound like Mark Twain. Here's a clip.
"Buh lemme just perfly be clearah..."
Maybe we shouldn't be too hard on him for botching the bomb scare. He may have Down Syndrome.
The clip is from Mumbles Menino.
Boston is dropping its charges against the two poor schmucks who got offered $300 a piece by a marketing company to place brightly-lit Mooninite pictures around the city.
Unfortunately this news did not come with an apology by Boston officials.
Link to Boing Boing article.
Speaking of Boston, have you heard Mayor Menino speak? He makes George W. Bush sound like Mark Twain. Here's a clip.
"Buh lemme just perfly be clearah..."
Maybe we shouldn't be too hard on him for botching the bomb scare. He may have Down Syndrome.
The clip is from Mumbles Menino.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
ATHF Is Da Bomb!
I never got into 24, but this is pretty good:
And here's yet further analysis of the Boston (not)bomb (not)hoax.
And here's yet further analysis of the Boston (not)bomb (not)hoax.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
It Will Be An Explosion
Of Extraordinary Magnitude
I'm still obsessed with the whole Boston bomb "hoax". It's unbelievable how badly the Boston authorities are handling the entire situation. This video points out the absurdity fairly well:
This video has a brief interview with one of Boing Boing's contributors. It's a good clip but you have to watch it on ABC News's crappy embedded media player, and sit through a random commercial.
This video has a brief interview with one of Boing Boing's contributors. It's a good clip but you have to watch it on ABC News's crappy embedded media player, and sit through a random commercial.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Can You Hear Me, Boston?
Or Do I Need To Turn It Up?
You've probably heard by now that the city of Boston was brought to its knees by a guerilla marketing campaign for the new Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. Boing Boing has been covering the story thoroughly.
And of course YouTube is getting its fair share of material:
If everyone in Boston is as quick-witted as this reporter, it's no wonder that the city went apeshit over some homemade Lite-Brites. This guy is so clueless he sounds like a bad parody. Listen to the gravity with which he discusses Err, a character "described as being rebellious and angry."
You can see on the screen that the scary cartoon lights were being labeled as a hoax, which of course implies that there was some sort of malice. As if the people who put these up thought in a million years that anyone would take more than a mild passing interest in them. If it were me it wouldn't have even crossed my mind that something so innocent would be blown up to such sensational levels.
Here's a more clear-headed account of the Mooninite Apocalypse:
These clips also do a fine job of highlighting the differences between Fox News and actual news programs.
So the two guys who apparently did it have been arrested (see the last two Boing Boing links above for details). Now the city of Boston will try to cover their own incompetence by pinning blame on a couple of fanboys. Hey, geniuses of Boston, terrorists don't advertise their explosives with bright colored lights. Kind of defeats the purpose. My question is, how much of this chaos and panic could have been avoided if the Boston authorities hadn't overreacted? Was anyone actually scared of these things until the Bomb Squad was rolled out and major streets were closed?
And of course YouTube is getting its fair share of material:
If everyone in Boston is as quick-witted as this reporter, it's no wonder that the city went apeshit over some homemade Lite-Brites. This guy is so clueless he sounds like a bad parody. Listen to the gravity with which he discusses Err, a character "described as being rebellious and angry."
You can see on the screen that the scary cartoon lights were being labeled as a hoax, which of course implies that there was some sort of malice. As if the people who put these up thought in a million years that anyone would take more than a mild passing interest in them. If it were me it wouldn't have even crossed my mind that something so innocent would be blown up to such sensational levels.
Here's a more clear-headed account of the Mooninite Apocalypse:
These clips also do a fine job of highlighting the differences between Fox News and actual news programs.
So the two guys who apparently did it have been arrested (see the last two Boing Boing links above for details). Now the city of Boston will try to cover their own incompetence by pinning blame on a couple of fanboys. Hey, geniuses of Boston, terrorists don't advertise their explosives with bright colored lights. Kind of defeats the purpose. My question is, how much of this chaos and panic could have been avoided if the Boston authorities hadn't overreacted? Was anyone actually scared of these things until the Bomb Squad was rolled out and major streets were closed?
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