Sam 101 - Please take your seat.

From NYT:

The [National Advertising Division of the BBB] therefore recommended that Apple modify its “world’s greenest family of notebooks” claim, “to make clearer that the basis of comparison is between all MacBooks to all notebooks made by a given competitor.” It also suggested that Apple “avoid the reference to ‘world’s greenest’ — given the potential for overstatement.”

June 19, 2009, 9:56am

Comments have returned. That is all.

June 04, 2009, 10:55pm

Toy Story 3, coming June 18, 2010.

I had to check twice to make sure that the 1995 release date of the original “Toy Story” was correct. In fact, so much has happened since then that the newest incarnation will be shown in Disney Digital 3D (which premiered in theaters this weekend in “Up”).

Click here to watch the trailer (strongly recommend 1080p).

May 31, 2009, 10:44pm

Ezra Klein’s got it right, Obama won’t see any problems with his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, mostly because her last name can’t be turned into a verb.

The last nominee to actually be defeated — Harriett Miers was withdrawn, remember, and withdrawn due to conservative unrest — was Robert Bork.

William Safire defines “to bork” by reference “to the way Democrats savaged Ronald Reagan’s nominee, the Appeals Court judge Robert H. Bork…

May 27, 2009, 9:33am

From the Congress for the New Urbanism.

Be on the lookout around the 2:12 mark for a Columbia Heights shoutout (my hood.)

May 14, 2009, 1:15am

Manute + Muggsy

via @theredheadsaid

May 07, 2009, 5:36pm

After 9/11, Ji Lee began photographing logos featuring the Twin Towers around NYC, most of which are bound to disappear as the logos change or businesses shutter.

Enter, WTC Logo Preservation Project.

The nostalgic in me loves the logos including the towers, but the change is probably inevitable, if not preferable.

[via Logo Design Love]

May 03, 2009, 9:47pm

I did not get a chance to go to a Nationals game last season* after moving to DC, but I can safely say that the chances of my going to a game this season went up today.

Introducing, the beer list for the 2009 season at Nationals Park:

Bottles: Budweiser, Bud Light, Miller Genuine Draft, Miller Lite, Coors Light, Bell’s Oberon American Wheat Ale, Harpoon Summer Ale.

Draft: Peroni, Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA, Bell’s Kalamazoo Stout, Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale, Southampton Triple Abby Style Ale, Harpoon UFO Hefeweizen, Williamsburg Tavern Brown Ale, Flying Dog Old Scratch Amber Lager.

Not that I would plan on spending an afternoon sitting in the sun drinking the Kalamazoo milk stout, but I could.

* – Sam has actually never been to a Major League Baseball game.

April 03, 2009, 1:04am

Shot using tilt-shift photography to make everything all miniature-like.

(from kottke)

April 01, 2009, 11:01pm

not sure how I missed this one…

trumcgowan

Moscow, 1988
The tourist with a camera on the left is undercover KGB agent Vladimir Putin.

(via tumbléo)

March 29, 2009, 11:34pm