Valentine’s day: I was at the Target Center in Minneapolis for a Timberwolves game against the slumping Seattle Supersonics. We got better-than-usual seats in a package deal that included a $30 gift card to a fancy pretend-italian restaurant whose chef must have just moved up from Denny’s or Perkins.

We sat right above the tunnel where [...]

Earlier this week I asked:
“What’s the threshold for igniting this kind of outrage in the Muslim world? These cartoons were first published five months ago in a Danish newspaper with a circulation of 150,000. What if they had first been published on my blog, circulation 17? Is there a magic number of people a cartoon [...]

Some things to think about:

1. How many people would have ever seen the cartoons if there hadn’t been any protests? How many people have seen them precisely because of the protests? Was this the intended effect? (here are some of the offending cartoons, if you haven’t seen them)

2. What’s the threshold for igniting this kind [...]

Do what SportsIllustrated.com does; insert a loud, annoying streaming ad down at the bottom of the page (under the fold), and have it autoplay, so that when it starts, it’s impossible to figure why or how your computer is blasting noise.

Then, just for kicks, make it play on every page of the site, even if [...]