Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Page 1 Consider (04/04)

  • Women's Litigation: Federal Court Rules Transgender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Library of Congress Can Proceed / Cliffs Notes version of the story: Don't fuck with a tranny and her Dewey Decimal System. (GayWired)

  • We Oughta Be Ashamed of You: Obese Americans get super-size ambulances (BT)

  • Priceless: GM learned a valuable lesson when it gave the public the chance to create their own ads for the newly designed 2007 Chevy Tahoe. In theory, the company was hoping that visitors to its Web site would e-mail their own videos around the Web, generating interest for the Tahoe through what is known as viral marketing. By the measure of Chevrolet Tahoe videos circulating the blogosphere and video-hosting Web sites like YouTube, that goal was achieved. At first glance, the video looks like a typical 30-second car commercial: a shiny sport utility vehicle careers down a country road lined with sunflower fields, jaunty music playing in the background. Then, white lettering appears on the screen: “$70 to fill up the tank, which will last less than 400 miles. Chevy Tahoe.” (NYT) (View some here and here and here.)

  • Don't Forget the Motor City: The rumor mill places the next installment of MTV's long-suffering "Real World" series in Detroit, more specifically in Royal Oak, the very birthplace of Kenneth of the (212). This I gotta see! (Wikipedia)

  • Answered Prayers: Exterminator-turned-politician Tom DeLay to Resign From Congress / And I always said there was no God. (WP)

  • Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Katie Couric is leaving her post at the "Today Show" to become Dan Rather's replacement. Is there no way we can rearrange this deal where we never have to look at her orange face again? (WP)

  • Sugar-Coated Child Abuse: Many U.S. children too heavy for their car seats (AP)

  • Supremely Useless: Once again, the Supreme Court shirks its responsibility. The way things are going these days, why even have them at all? (NYT)

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