Twitter: CNN Breaking News — United and Continental announce all-stock merger deal that creates world’s largest airline, CNNMoney.com reports.
Twitter: BrendanLoy.com programming note: I was planning to publish Defining Day #3 on Monday, but Tuesday now looks more likely. (It’s 95% written.)
I just submitted a picture, taken at 9:00 AM Mountain Time this morning, to the New York Times for its “Moment In Time” global photo mosaic (organized by its “The Lens” blog). One of the topics is “Family,” and this certainly falls into that category: The pictured scene came together on its own; Loyette spontaneously decided to start organizing her… Read more »
Twitter: Just saw a Census-taker in my neighborhood, going door-to-door with a clipboard. #OMGtyranny
There’s a lot of talk about the allegedly slow reaction to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill being “Obama’s Katrina.” I haven’t followed it closely enough to have an opinion on that. But could the moniker prove more literal than anyone now imagines? Blogger Alan Sullivan, who predicted “significant harm to the Gulf” from the BP explosion at a time… Read more »
FriendFeed: Take a picture Sunday at 15:00 UTC / 11am Eastern / 10am Central / 9am Mountain / 8am Pacific for NYTimes “Moment in Time”
Lots of good stuff at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a.k.a. #nerdprom, last night. I love the jabs at Leno. And Orly Taitz is totally working on a new federal court filing as we speak. OMG HE ADMITTED HE WAS BORN IN KENYA!!! HE ADMITTED HE HASN’T SHOWN US HIS REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!! [Bumped. -ed.] UPDATE: After the jump, the… Read more »
Twitter: Napolitano: car bomb “doesn’t look like it is a very sophisticated one, quite frankly”; likely a “one-off.” http://bit.ly/c8nvL2
Twitter: Times Square car bomb was parked in front of Disney’s “The Lion King.” Steve Jobs is on Disney’s board. Attempted terror attack by Gizmodo??
That, at least, is my initial take on this Daily News account of tonight’s events in Times Square: Heroic cops stopped a car bomb from blowing up in the heart of Times Square Saturday night, officials told the Daily News. Two female cops patrolling the area noticed a man fumbling with something in the back of a Nissan SUV parked… Read more »