TIME magazine being a wuss

This has been going around in form of an internet meme for quite some time. Time Magazine, publishing four different edition, has been substantially softening the cover story of their US edition.

US edition features article on anxiety, while the rest of the TIME world is concerned with Revolution Redux

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I think that TIME has done it's research and found that serious topics on the cover decrease the readership. So really, it is a commentary on how are news (and idea of what one should know) received around the world. It is a somehow sad picture but one that needs some consideration. If TIME were a wuss, they would change the cover everywhere...

Internet History - Hodgman

Another great video with my favorite correspondence.

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"I am not stupid, I use Google"

Yes, when you know what you are searching, you will find it.

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We also use Google, for almost everything, really, but confirmation bias is a great danger when looking on Google for arguments that would support your side of the story. You will find them, but that just means there are more stubborn people like you.

Commercial sidenote: use Google to find vizitky (personal and business cards), and let us know if you can find some cool designs. We know we have a lot of competition when it comes to cards but we want to be the best and easiest to use in Czech Republic.

Great interview with Jon Stewart

Look at this fairly long, but terrific Jon Stewart On The Rachel Maddow Show Uncut, it is a great summary of what Jon Stewart and his team do, but also much wider ideas about TV. Don't miss it.

On an unrelated note, me and my friend started a website to design personal business cards at vizitka.cz. "Vizitky" means business cards in English, but we sell also personal cards, allowing you to design them on-line, very easily. Wish us luck :-)

Personal "business" cards are for everybody

Cards for personal use, for students, moms with kids, for travelers etc. Technically, they shouldn't be called Business Card but rather personal cards. In Czech, we call them "osobní vizitky", but in English, the name varies.

• Personal cards (cardstore)
• Personal Business cards (vistaprint)
• Business cards for personal use (clickbusinesscards)
• Calling cards (article in time)

I Czech, vizitka means "business card", but is derived from "visiting card", so it actually has personal meaning embedded in it. Visiting card has actually quite an interesting history, I will get to that some other time.

Ricky Gervais aka the stupid boss from The Office (UK version)

Ricky Gervais from the British BBC documentary The Office visits The Daily Show.

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Neil Postman in The Daily Show

It's not that I don't like Rob Corddry and his ridiculously ridiculous ideas that make us laugh hard. But I really wished they payed more attention to my favorite scholar, Professor Neil Postman, author of the book Technopoly. His ideas are great warning and are worth spreading.

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I am glad that they showed both sides, but I'd still be happier if Jon Stewart would have done that interview. Well, there are other interviews with Neil Postman out there...

The Daily Show on Health Care Reform and Obama PR

Funny comments on Obama's comparison of post-office and FedEx:

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Heal or No Heal: town hall meeting with unreasonably reasonable guy

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Suggestive questions in US TV public opinion polls

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Chipms or Orangutanes?

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"When humans lost all these hair, did we retain a single stripe of the hair on the top of the head?"