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The case for a pay cap
When people say to me “the Yankees bought the World Series again,” my initial reaction is always, “but they had the same payroll last year, and they didn’t even make the playoffs.” But with 27 World Series wins, WAY more than any other team in all of baseball, Joe Posnanski makes some very good points about their payroll and how it affects the game. (via @drewpickard)
Where there is happiness — friendship, adventure, affection, security — there is also, inevitably, disappointment. That’s life.
— A. O. Scott, NYTimes Film Critic, from his article, Unleashing Life’s Wild Things on Screen, a great review of a fantastic movie, as well as a full genre of complicated kids’ movies that I feel the world needs a lot more of.
Michel Gondry is god.
Kottke has embeds from Gondry’s treatment for the Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar video, as well as the making of it. I wish I thought like Michel does.
(via @zephyrbunny)
Once again, Chris Ware has forced me to stop everything I’m doing and relish in every beautifully colored, fantastically-detailed isometric frame. This time, through a 4-page + cover story in this week’s New Yorker. (via Kung Fu Grippe)
You’re probably thinking, Why in the world would I text someone while jumping off a high dive?
— Seriously funny. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Five Other Activites During Which Texting Can Be Dangerous.
Jonathan Coulton and crew cover TMBG’s Flood in its entirety. Their cover of Minimum Wage is a wonderful thing in and of itself. (via @ironicsans)
If you really want to know why the financial system nearly collapsed in the fall of 2008, I can tell you in one simple sentence.
— From a brilliant — and brilliantly short — op-ed piece by Calvin Trillin in the NYTimes. I’m not smart enough to know if it’s true or not. via Daring Fireball
Way cool animation created with cardboard. Give it a few seconds before giving up on it — it takes a while to really kick in. via @zefrank
