Ben Joseph

2009

December 27
November 19
October 30
September 25
August 28
July 33
June 32
May 23
April 18
March 23
February 29
January 37

2008

December 35
November 34
October 44
September 47
August 43
July 31
June 38
May 24
April 52
March 41
February
January
For SuperDeluxe, the folks at Fark.com are the nexus of Jarvis’s GSI (Google Sucks Index) and...
Mar 31st

"The Medium is the Metaphor"

Got Postman on the brain this week. The primary message of his book (per the title of this post)...
Mar 31st
Black hole machine may kill us all. True...
Mar 31st
“Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give...
Mar 28th
Warch Watch
paulscheer: Jeff Zucker, The President of NBC, shot this really funny piece for “My Name is Earl”....
Mar 27th
I call this one In Which A Joke Bombs And I Hear My Father Die A Little Inside Over 400 Miles of...
Mar 27th
this is not breaking the fourth wall. this is...
Mar 27th
WSJ.com on Cracked.com
Mar 26th
My younger brother Dan has suffered some sort of injury to...
Mar 26th
Vote for the new NBC Page uniform
Mar 25th
It's Not You, It's Your Uncontrollable...
Mar 25th
Ten Ways NOT To Cheat On Your Taxes
Mar 25th
On the tail of Jarvis’s Google Sucks Index (or GSI),...
Mar 24th
NYTimes Covers Rickrolling
Mar 24th
“Yo thats hits! Page it up one time. We’re gonna do so many bitties.” -George...
Mar 22nd
jamiew: bullshit: Naked Woman Picture Gains Popularity...
Mar 22nd
YouTube co-founder says it’s more important...
Mar 21st
Airborne doesn’t work and it’s old news, but has anybody else read World War Z? ...
Mar 20th
Microsoft Word on game consoles.
Mar 20th
Is it silly to want my RSS feeds to appear on my Dashboard (or Facebook News Feed)? I want a site...
Mar 19th
The three channels w/ the most video views (all time) on...
Mar 19th
Warch Watch
When it comes to poker, Andres Du Bouchet and I have remarkably similar styles of play.
Mar 19th

what I learned at work today

spiegelman: With the exception of Fargo, no movie that takes place entirely in a snowy venue or...
Mar 18th
“I intend to challenge him to a cross-continental bathtub...”
— Sarah Benincasa’s...
Mar 18th
Warch Watch
Ha ha! Your medium is dying. 
Mar 18th
Videos in the YouTube Video Awards Category “ADORABLE!” by view count: Otters...
Mar 18th
A little hair o’ the dog, courtesy Broadway Video.
Mar 17th
rocketboom: elspethjane: Live Rickrolling includes...
Mar 17th

Over the Hill

The “baby smoothness” of my handshake has been the subject of at least two conversations...
Mar 17th
Chuck Jones once said something along the lines of “We all think we’re Bugs Bunny, but...
Mar 17th
(via garfieldminusgarfield) If this isn’t art,...
Mar 16th
Mike Birbiglia Pilot Greenlit
Mar 15th
Via Cracked.com.
Mar 14th
“Here’s some free advice: Go to Google, enter any of your...”
— On the tail (har) of the Chris...
Mar 13th
I am obssessed with Dinosaur Comics, even moreso out of context:
Mar 13th
I saw one of these on the subway today: I felt like the guy who just spotted Bigfoot. Jeff Bezos...
Mar 13th
“For a generation of customers used to doing their buying...”
— Chris Anderson, The Long Tail
Mar 13th
I was on Hulu before it was cool. [NewTeevee] In typical vid start-up fashion, the search feature...
Mar 11th

Taxed!

Reviewing my checking account statements from the past twelve months is half nostalgia trip and half...
Mar 11th
Behind the Curve Read of the Month
Mar 11th
I finally found a tumblr theme I like better than my WP blog, so I’m trying it out....
Mar 10th