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American Assholes of The Week — John And Kristi (with an "i") Schiller

Lots of good candidates and runners-up, but we have a definitive winner! Excerpted from the ridiculous NY Times article about rich assholes buying lavish tree houses for their snotty fucking kids. Be sure to check out the tacky and altogether inappropriate slide show.

In Houston, John Schiller, an oil company executive, and his wife, Kristi, a Playboy model turned blogger, custom-built a playhouse for their daughter, Sinclair, now 4. Pictured, Ms. Schiller and Sinclair outside the two-story, 170-square-foot, Cape Cod-style playhouse. “I think of it as bling for the yard,” Ms. Schiller said.

The little stainless steel sink in the kitchen has running water. The windows, which all open, have screens to keep out mosquitoes, and there are begonias in the window boxes.

The stainless steel mini fridge and freezer are stocked with juice boxes and Popsicles. Upstairs is a sitting area with a child-size sofa and chairs for watching DVDs on the 32-inch flat-screen TV. The playhouse is air-conditioned.

Final Shuttle Launch As Seen From Airplane

18-year-old Ryan Graff was lucky enough to be flying to Miami as the Shuttle launched, and captured these cool photographs of Atlantis’ smoke trail. via Laughing Squid.

General Orders No.9

Get a Brain! Morans

This redneck dipshit just found out about Osama. This is real.

 

Sanborn Fire Maps — Typography Eyegasm

Craft exemplified.  Link to complete series.

"D. A. Sanborn, a young surveyor from Somerville, Massachusetts, was engaged in 1866 by the Aetna Insurance Company to prepare insurance maps for several cities in Tennessee. [..] Before working for Aetna, Sanborn conducted surveys and compiled an atlas of the city of Boston titled 'Insurance Map of Boston, Volume 1, 1867'. [..] The atlas includes twenty-nine large plates showing sections of Boston at the scale of 50 feet to an inch. It is believed to include the earliest insurance maps published by Sanborn.

The success of the Boston atlas and the commission from Aetna must have impressed the young surveyor with the importance of detailed and specialized maps for the fire insurance industry. Following his assignment in Tennessee for Aetna, he established the D. A. Sanborn National Insurance Diagram Bureau in New York City in 1867. 11 From this modest beginning grew the specialized company that has compiled and published maps for the fire insurance industry for more than a hundred years." [source]

$30.00 Movies on Demand? Yeah, That'll Work.

Because everybody wants to pay MORE money to see crappy Hollywood movies, remakes, and sequels.

"Warner Bros., Sony, Universal and 20th Century Fox have all agreed to be involved with 'Home Premiere', the industry's official premium VOD service which is set to launch late next month reports Variety.

Movies will be offered up to rent for $30 for a 2-3 day viewing period. Titles will show up two months after their theatrical releases, depending on the distributor, and won't include films that "are still performing well at the box-office".

As far as I can tell, the ONLY factor that makes this a "Premium" service — is the ridiculous $30.00 price tag. Brilliant. So help me understand the buinsess model here, Hollywood; I can go see a movie in the theater on opening day for $10.00 — or I can see the same movie, two months later, on my TV at home, for $30.00. Awesome! Sign me up!

Critics vs. Audiences, The Great Divide

Hey Lexus, Go Fuck Yourself