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McSweeney’s made a funny.

This is what I want for Christmas.

From Unmediated:

• “The most detailed guide (to) free TV over the Internet.”
• A ridiculous cell phone of the future.

From Boing Boing:

• “Chocolypse Now”: 21st Century Wonka

Snarkmarket favorite Roy Peter Clark laid down the immortal Truth about journalism in a Washington Post chat today.

I tried to reform. After leaving college, I had to confront the fact that my activities during those four years were not socially acceptable. I assiduously removed all references to that lifestyle, reforming some of those dead-giveaway behavioral tics, brushing up on new conversation topics, even tweaking my music collection.

It was hard. It had been a wild four years, and I was still in the thrall of college a cappella. I had to move on.

But last week, my former a cappella group’s CD was released, it arrived in my mailbox on Thursday, and folks, I have backslid completely. I have not stopped listening to this thing since I got it. I am absolutely swimming in six-part harmony cover versions of contemporary pop songs, and I’m no longer going to hide it. Call me a degenerate. I don’t care anymore.

In fact, I’m posting three snippets of the album, three of my favorite parts. How I love this stuff.

• Sample 1 – Change the World
• Sample 2 – Song for Holly
• Sample 3 – Don’t Change Your Plans

The interactive short story Fa

This is kind of awesome. The website for Wedding Crashers (the upcoming movie with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn) is allowing anyone to digitally insert herself into the movie trailer. Thus ensuring that new pseudo-movie-stars like my friend Ryan McGee become the viral marketing brigade for the film.

Workmanlike RSS feed for the Romenesko sidebar. Not pretty, but it gets the job done.

Update: This feed had stopped working properly after the Wotzwot RSS tool’s hiatus. I’ve updated it to scrape the page properly again.

Wotzwot = busted. Here is the new feed, courtesy of the awesome Feed43.

Hmm.

From JKottke, scientists posit that the reason we can’t remember our early youth is because we don’t have the language skills to encode events into memory.