Get your t-shirts!
-I'll take a dozen-
I came across this one reddit, where it was listed as "CNN's new t-shirt service still has some kinks to be worked out."
And, yeah, it does. CNN's selling t-shirts that supposedly feature headlines with the CNN logo. The homepage for the service is here.
It seems that someone figured out that the headline on the t-shirt is determined by the URL for the page -- change the URL, change the headline. So some enterprising redditor created an official CNN t-shirt that reads, "ABC News fucked up the Pennsylvania debate," with the subheader, "I saw it on CNN.com."
I thought this was so funny that I wanted to play. Here's mine:
Yeah, I'm still pissed off from the post I wrote this morning. The question is how long CNN will leave this up before they realize how easy it is to screw with. Copy the URL to your notepad and you'll see how it's done.
It's subversive fun! (CNN, reddit)
-Alcoholic adventure-
This one comes from the home of my media empire, Madison, Wisconsin.
Daniel J. Smith, a 19 year-old man from Barneveld, was arrested friday and charged with criminal trespassing, disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property and underage drinking. He entered a N. Murray St. apartment early that morning "without permission from its three female residents."
According to the report, "Each of the women locked herself in her respective bedroom after Smith entered, or attempted to enter, each of their rooms." The police were called and found Smith sitting on the sofa. They determined that he'd been drinking. None of the residents knew Smith.
But that's not enough to get you into the roundup, is it? What does that is this little fact; a police report tells us, "To most questions asked by responding officers Mr. Smith responded, 'Chicken do.'"
That'll do it. (The Capital Times)
-Headline of the day-
"Tony Snow joins CNN as commentator."
That'd be the same Tony Snow who used to be Bush's press secretary -- which is a polite way of saying that he lied for a living. Just the sort of credentials you want in a news commentator.
Prior to the war, the country leaned right, so the media did too. Now that the country's leaning left, it seems the media is reacting by leaning even farther right.
That does it, I'm going to buy one of those fucking t-shirts. (Think Progress)
