Adam Kuban: Kublog

Links from Thursday, January 29, 2009 to Friday, January 30, 2009

by Adam Kuban

• C. Brian Smith on dining with Dubya [Vanity Fair]
  "When a college drinking buddy invited C. Brian Smith to hang out with her parents, he tried not to sweat the fact that they lived in the White House. He even had fun—until 9/11 made watching bad movies with the president feel like a guilty pleasure America couldn’t afford." [I missed this earlier this month. Will need to read when I have some time.]
  Delicious tags: VanityFair GeorgeWBush TheWhiteHouse BarbaraBush
• Layoffs and Changes for Slashfood? [Eat me daily]
  "After staff cuts last year, AOL has let Slashfood languish — a cursory look at their Sitemeter statistics reveals that traffic is down year-over-year, and, we can only assume, so is revenue. Under the shadows of the successful Weblogs, Inc sites like Engadget and AutoBlog, Slashfood's website hasn't seen any fundamental redesign other than enhanced commenting that graced all the other Weblogs, Inc websites, and, if we do say so ourselves, it has an amateurish feel, wha with all the poorly-optimized images and five-days-late content."
  Delicious tags: EatMeDaily Slashfood foodblogs blogging insidebaseball
• Oh My God Slashfood, Shut Up [ReadySteadyGo]
  "I mean, fuck it all, you're already twelve days behind the meme cycle and entirely devoid of original content that doesn't involve your head being up your ass and the few original photos you do upload look exactly like vomit but whatever. Don't bother clicking over to page 2 of your Flickr search results. Do it the lazy way. You think no one notices? I AM NOTICING. And the six people who read my blog? Now they know about it too. That's right. A grand total of SEVEN ENTIRE PEOPLE now know that you are complete Flickr weaksauce. Suck on it."
  Delicious tags: Slashfood blogging foodblogs insidebaseball rants
• Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni
  Creepy. From Wikipedia: "There is an account that in the 1940s a British embassy worker, Miss Lois Jessup, went on a tour of the Hypogeum and convinced a guide to let her explore a 3ft. square "burial chamber" next to the floor of the lowest room in the last [3rd] sub-level. She claims that after squeezing through this chamber she came into a large room; where she was standing there was a large cliff with a steep drop and the floor of the cavern could not be seen. Across the cavern there was a small ledge with an opening in the wall. According the Ms. Jessup, a number of 'humanoid beings' that were covered in white hair and hunched over came out of this opening. They raised their palms in her direction and a large gust of wind filled the cavern, extinguishing the light of her candle. She then claimed that she felt something brush past her. When she went back to the Hypogeum on another occasion, she was told no such tour guide had ever worked on the site…."
  Delicious tags: conspiracytheories Malta paranormal hypogea creepy