(via jimray)

Well, my response is – and by the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes, because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: He’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), inimitable and magnificent, discussing DarkSide himself: Dick Cheney. Where has Grayson been all my life?

Behold Windows 7

Just one of the many incredible innovations in Windows 7. On an iPhone, displaying a text-heavy dialogue about a seperate in-window notification is the sole purpose of at least 17,000 apps.

(h/t marco)

The critique [that] Amtrak [loses money because it is required to retain unprofitable routes] is like slamming the Navy for hemorrhaging money when they could be hijacking ships.

Matt Yglesias making amazing sense. The Navy should be out there seizing workable boats right and left. We can’t afford not to. Wise to cc: NASA on this as well.

Windows 7, from our point of view, is just another opportunity to remind everyone to switch to a Mac,

Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, in response to the previous Ballmer quote

That’s why they’ve got 75,000 applications — they’re all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.

Microsoft CEO and Asshat, Steve Ballmer who might just want to compare the average web display experience on a desktop install of Explorer to an iPhone Safari. Seriously.