Cookiewaits does it again (lyrics NSFW):




If you missed the first one, it's here.  I'm partial to the new one.

Never Gonna Smell Like Teen Spirit

This is fabulous.  Uploaded July of 2009?  Did it only achieve meme status now, or did I just miss it back then?

H/t to Jessica.

Best of the Week

Some good stuff I've read in the past week or so...

Grantland on the state of late night:

Letterman's retirement feels increasingly imminent; his contract is up in two years, he'll be 67, he likes to play at home with his son (one imagines Dave-as-Godfather-Marlon Brandon stuffing orange rinds into his gap-toothed mouth to amuse the lad in their backyard), and his decision will doubtless be a combo of personal choice and Les Moonves strong-arming.  When Letterman does retire, the entire history and mythology of the nighttime talk show will finally come to an end.  No one other than Dave does it with the same combination of intent to further precedent, awareness of lineage, and motivation to unite a mass audience that began with Steve Allen't Tonight.

Matt Yglesias makes the excellent point that promoting efficiency and innovation aren't the same thing:

A visit to San Francisco over the past few days really crystallized in my head the important distinction between increased efficiency in the allocation of resources and fundamental innovation...  San Francisco is a hotbed of inefficiency and what any economically literate person would recognize as bad public policy...  That said, while San Francisco is a hotbed of inefficiency it's also a hotbed of real innovation. The corridor that starts in San Francisco and runs down to San Jose is the premiere cluster of technological innovation in the world and has been for some time...  Human existence is complicated and it's no surprise that there's a lot we don't really understand about it.  But you frequently see an effort to simply subsume the question of innovation into the question of efficiency.  Like if you want a high-innovation economy you just need a lot of sound market-oriented efficiency-promoting public policies, such that true prosperity stems from Oklahoma and the Dakotas with their libertarian-approved policy frameworks.

And, a cool app that shows the entire scale of the universe.  Drag the bar to move from 10^-35 m to 10²⁶ m.

Bargain Link Shopping, March 24, 2013

A few trinkets collected this past week:

D.C. Past has posted some seriously great photos of the capital dating back to the 1860s.  I mean, there's a shot of the crowd from Lincoln's second Inaugural!

This corgi dances for his food.

Ezra Klein and Chrystia Freeland try to unpack the psychology of why Wall Street hates Obama so much.

This video making it easier to understand income inequality in America has been making the rounds for a few weeks, but if you haven't watched it, take a look.

"What's Going On" screeched by Adam and the cast of He-Man:




h/t to Jessica on that one...

My Mad Men Theory

A new preview of the upcoming sixth season of Mad Men is here.

So, my long-standing theory Mad Men is that the show's intro, with the guy falling down the side of a building, is one of the most blatant bits of foreshadowing in TV history.  The show's going to end with Don Draper committing suicide by jumping out of a building.  It's been right under our noses the whole time.

How sure am I?  Not at all, but it's one of those theories that kinda' feels like it might be right.  Guess we'll see in...what, at the end of season 7?  Have they announced that?

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Today's best:

A Vanderbilt student asks Billy Joel during a Q&A if he can play "New York State of Mind" with him...and kills it.

Better evidence that Mars could have supported life.

Regrettable - "Bob Woodward has an unmatched skill for digging up information, but he doesn't know what to do with that information once he finds it."

Mila Kunis is cool.

Somehow the Timberwolves beat the best team in the NBA by 24, led by Ricky Rubio's first triple double since he's been with the team.  Dude is fun to watch.

And this cat should be a goalie (h/t to Ezra).

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Links for every occasion, budget, and cat impression!

Cow Crusher is a game that lets - no, demands that - you spray gore all over the machinery as you smash cows into burgers and steaks.  Lost points for smashing horses...

Need help deciding between Spotify and Pandora?  (Click graphic for large version...)

Alec Baldwin interviews Brian Williams on his podcast.

One of the worst graphs you'll ever see.

And, I'm liking the new (2012), synth-heavy Muse album.