NY Times - On Language - Me, Myself and I: Why do we capitalize the word “I”? There’s no grammatical reason for doing so, and oddly enough, the majuscule “I” appears only in English.
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Bridge Collapse Retrospective: at 6:05 pm august 1st, 2007 the 35W bridge collapsed into the mississippi river, 13 people died, scores of others were hurt, and a community responded. this is a wcco.com special project sharing their collective stories of one of the greatest disasters in minnesota history
I’ve only made it through a few of the survivor stories, but I’m very impressed with it so far, but will continue to watch each section. I like how the whole thing feels like a WCCO TV production with the graphics used.
All four sections were excellent, survivors, responders, officials and wcco, with stories from every perspective. Would have been nice if each interview was one video, instead of separate videos for each segment, or if one interview would lead right into the next. I wish I could just hit play and listen to the whole thing instead of constantly hitting back and play.
Also see the similar to the Star Tribune’s 13 seconds in August.
Reality TV’s I’m Not Here to Make Friends! video montage. Wow, this is quite impressive.
How Foreigners See America: Does America Have Any Culture? Chuck Klosterman goes to Germany to teach a class. His students teach him a lesson about how the world views us.
Due to the size of the classroom, I was forced to immediately reduce this number to twenty. I was unsure how to do that fairly, so I decided to give them a competitive online essay test before the first day of class. The question was this: “Who do you consider the most interesting twentieth-century American — not necessarily the most historically important, but the individual you find most personally compelling?”
Kurt Cobain was not selected by anyone. Dave Grohl, however, was. Cobain was also referenced — somewhat negatively — in a paper focused on Taylor Hanson.
Perhaps the most provocative essay argued for a tie between Ernest Hemingway and O. J. Simpson. The author’s point seemed to be that Hemingway was “not the typical American,” but that Simpson sort of was.
The Microfame Game and The New Rules of Internet Celebrity: There’s a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within anyone’s reach. These are the rules. By Rex Sorgatz
From Mind-Blowing to Mockery - The iPhone 2 Mocked Up: These mock-ups were designed by the readers of iLounge, which held a competition to find the best ideas for the new iPhone.
Minnesota Monitor is now The Minnesota Independent, and it looks awesome, much better than the old site or MinnPost. The new site is part of the Center for Independent Media, which maintains news sites in five other states.
Top 10 things wrong with Purple Rain…: 10. Prince was a grown a$$ man, but he was living at home in his momma and daddy’s basement. Anybody grown ass man bold enough to wear lace gloves and ruffle shirts and pants that button down the sides of his legs ought to be grown enough to afford to get his own place. (via)
Fist Bumping Rules: 5. No fist bumping between the hours of 7am and 10am. And if you’re watching sports at this time, it’s probably soccer or NASCAR, and then you should really not be fist bumping. High fives will suffice for both.
NSFW: Penis Camouflage (via)
Don’t forget that today is No Pants Day. So, off they go. Good thing I’m no longer looking up information on the stimulus package. (via alexis and solace)
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