Chip unlocks a dirty visual secret.

"That painting is subversively pornographic. It's shocking my eyeballs." Later : See what I mean. I was going to make her head...

Rathergate, the movie.

The New York Observer has the scoop. What would it take for you to want to see this movie? Who plays Dan Rather?

The Blogger's Code of Conduct.

What do you think of this code ? The trouble with a speech code is... well, I hate speech codes! But aside from that general principle, what...

BlogHer... and plotting the trip to San Jose.

Are you going to the BlogHer convention next week? I'm on a panel on day two , which is described like this on the website: Political B...

About that plinth.

Lionel Shriver bemoans an art world occurrence: In this year's summer show at London's Royal Academy of Arts, "Exhibit 1201...

"The M&Ms float crashed. Oh the humanity! As God is my witness, I thought M&Ms could fly."

That's the reaction in the Pajamas Media live blogging when a Thanksgiving Parade balloon crashes and falls, along with a streetlight i...

When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger.

Thanks, Steven. UPDATE: "Looks like they’re backing away like Murtha from the war," says Jeff Jarvis (who, like Steven Taylor, li...

Academic blog controversies.

Slate has a big piece today, written by Robert S. Boynton, about the dangers of blogging when you're an untenured academic. It's lo...

"The Rove Must Resign blog swarm is gathering momentum quickly."

I was just trying to get a picture of the blog swarm around Karl Rove. Googling, I found this , from the Swing State Project, from back on J...

We don't need your code of ethics.

Adam Cohen has a long-winded, flat-footed piece on the NYT editorial page about bloggers and ethics. He wants more rules -- a code -- to b...

Fathoming the sad face of the caveman.

Here 's a picture I found rather disturbing when I was a kid. It's an artist's rendition of Zinjanthropus, a fossil human ancest...

"To see fake journalism taking off like this."

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart had this to say (in response to a comment by Bush-Cheney campaign chairman Marc Racicot): RACICOT: ...

Dan Rather on tonight's evening news.

So Burkett gave the documents to CBS News and admits he lied to them about where he got the documents, but still insists he believed they we...

Watching television yesterday.

I watched a few of the news shows yesterday, including that Dan Rather "60 Minutes" interview with the feisty octogenarian Marian...

Watching the Convention on C-Span.

I've been watching the Democratic Convention the past two nights on C-Span, because that seems to be the way to actually see it. You get...

Clinton and Rather on 60 Minutes.

Clinton is a charming guy. I have no criticism of his 60 Minutes performance in pursuit of books sales--other than that he needs to control ...