It looks like Newmark is contemplating his suppository.
I would be more impressed if Scoble slept with her.
Even with the pills, Erika doubts it is that long, while Mike ponders the lie.
I would posit in all seriousness that this is just more evidence of the ultimate convergence of the tech and media industries; if you do not not like Paris Hilton, consider Julia Allison as an equivalent example. And apparently the term "convergence" may apply on several levels of meaning. The tech world is slowly but surely starting to cut in on the action reserved for a different kind of people, or at least a kind of people that lived in a different world, the glitterati of the media world. It is bizarre to behold based on prior experience, but on some levels it makes a sort of sense in a Japanese kind of way.
What we are seeing with cases like this are not anomalies but in fact early adopters of a cultural shift that treats the technology industry a little differently than we have been accustomed to. We can be curmudgeonly about it and demand the pocket protectors and birth control glasses back, or we can play it for what it is worth -- clearly these girls are.
Jimmy Wales strikes out at the Helen Keller School of Miming.
Jimbo realizing that "going to her happy place" does not require his participation.
In true Web 2.0 style, this is like a mashup of every bad startup fad of the last fifteen years. So they are going to have a revenue model like the Peace Corps, but on the Internet?
Maybe she had "GoldenPalace.com" tattooed on her bum.
Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance.
No amount of Jesus will cure that shirt.
@raincoaster: I would siphon gas tanks with you any time.
@Rachel Marsden: Come on Rachel, even if Jason is the most likable guy in the entire tech universe, he is not visionary by any stretch of the imagination or proper use of the English language, and I hold no antipathy toward the guy. Jason Calacanis is "visionary" in the same sense that selling pet food on the Internet is "visionary". Naturally, if he is wildly successful I will have to eat my words, because only a true visionary could sell a concept so transparently stupid and I will have once again overestimated the human race, which would hardly be the first time.
Remember, this is ValleyWag. The only people who show up on these pages tend to be self-promoting tools with visionaries far and few between. I deem myself fortunate to have so far escaped notice.
To point out the obvious: Schmidt is a douche, and one of the larger ones in this galaxy (I still hold out hope for the rest of the universe).
Cashmore's Kazakhstani wedding pics
He is basically a famous nobody. Which makes him precisely the kind of person we talk about here at The Wag. Never mind, I'll take my meds and shut up...
While biofuels are largely a stupid idea, we also have far more food than we need in this world. Biofuels would not make a whit of difference for the world's food supply in a world without pervasive import/export restrictions, agricultural subsidies, and tariffs. People starving has nothing to do with the ability of agriculture to feed them and everything to do with governments effectively preventing them from being fed.
Case in point: While the US implemented an idiotic corn-to-ethanol policy, agricultural exports from the US have increased sharply over the last couple years, primarily to cover shortfalls in production in the rest of the world. It clearly did not impact food exporting capacity and no one is starving in the US. Ironically, US biofuels policy correlates with a sharp increase in agricultural exports; the US policy may be dumb, but some major foreign producers have really screwed the pooch with their protectionist and populist export restriction policies. The US has unused agricultural capacity, but in places like Asia the rice tariffs are so high that it is impossible to make a profit as an American rice farmer, so they do not bother producing Asian rice for the export market.
Only a Nazi would engage in such a boring argument.
@bugz321: What you say intrigues me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Spunk engineering? Is that what they are calling it now?
I actually think she's kinda meh. Not ugly, but not hot enough to make up for the fact that she is probably a dreadfully uninteresting person.
