Clearing the Cache: Serious Spoof
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, July 1 2010
- That's BP managing director Bob Dudley made to watch the widely-circulated "What Happens When BP Spills Coffee" spoof video during PBS NewsHour's "America Speaks to BP," powered by YouTube and Google Moderator. Dudley defended the people of BP, and added, "Videos like that are expressions of pain and outrage," a sentiment, he said, running through American society. "It's a lighter way of putting it," he said, "but the message is the same: It's just not good."
- Vuvuzelas + Kickstarter + BP's London Headquarters = noisy political street theater.
- Seminole Country Florida puts its polling places on Foursquare, and our Micah calls it "a plus for democracy."
- How's a person supposed to do good spying when their stupid laptop won't even work?
- And Slate wants you to boil down the Declaration of Independence to a tweet.
(With Nick Judd and Micah Sifry)