Maggie Shnayerson

If Karl Rove is following you (eep!) and you were NOT deeply frightened by the discovery, raise your hand.

Yeah.

From the Department of Chicken/Egg Theories: Whoever wrote this NYT lead is a trifle confooosed about what comes first…http://is.gd/obZP

CLEARLY the best sample screenshot of all. Hey, isn’t this the part where that stewardess gets all drowny and banged up in the back? Killer.

Well yes, ninety9, but these are still terribly urgent matters, especially in light of the fact that the panel where you discuss nobler things (oh, this is sxsw? ha) absolutely just never ever gets live-Twittered. What more can one possibly say about the world and its handbasket home?

SO!

Not true:

“After one year, Gould resigned from her editor position at Gawker due to constant, overwhelmingly negative feedback on her Gawker blog posts.”

Very true, and smart!

“With respect to women,” says [Mediabistro editor Rebecca] Fox, “keeping your mouth shut has long been tantamount to being ‘good,’ and the virgin/whore complex is alive and well both online and off.”

Awkward on so many levels:

“‘Women are girlified way more than men, but to be fair, Emily was young when that article came out—25—and it openly portrayed her vulnerability as a neophyte in a new situation,’ Sklar writes via e-mail.”

Misinterpretation:

“‘When he was at Gawker, blogger Alex Balk wrote in the character of ‘My Cock’ for more than a year and still blogs about his affinity for blow jobs, yet he’s like the Teflon man when it comes to how the blogosphere collectively regards his writing,’ Fox says.”

The afore-chewed-over double-standard is less responsible for Teflon Cock’s esteem than the man’s acute dexterity when it comes to the art of satire, a form that—if you will—flummoxes folks on occasion. Like here!

[All via The Austin Chronicle, which is a real (alternative) live (weekly) newspaper owned by its own goddamn self! Amazing.]

Dear God in Heaven. The Discovery Channel’s recent special “Hudson Plane Crash: What Really Happened,” wasn’t enough? Their accompanying online flight simulator game (and its subsequent and immediate deletion from the site) didn’t raise collective red flags amongst developers? Somebody had to GO AND MAKE A FUCKING IPHONE APP called “Sully’s Flight”!?!?

If the much-needed national miracle that was the skillful, competent, brave handling of US Airways Flight 1549 reminded us of the immense capability within the brains and spirits of human beings, then this would be THE OPPOSITE OF THAT.