What’s worse:  The fact that this is newsworthy or the fact that we’re posting about it? “In my opinion, I feel like he [Obama] should be focusing a lot more on jobs and the economy,” Amber Lee Ettinger told the New York Post. “He did create some jobs, but most …

Unclear as to who said it… h/t MK via Some Girl Named Bong

If it gets any weirder than this, we’d like to know. Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants A German man who stuffed 44 small lizards into his underwear before trying to board a flight has been sentenced to prison in New Zealand for plundering the country’s protected …

Welcome @JoeLieberman to Twitter.

This means we might have to readjust our future business model. After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday’s Web Site Fact: 35 is more than 10.

Is 140 characters getting to be too much? Compete, a Web analytics firm, says the microblogging [Twitter] site’s number of visitors hasn’t changed much since June and that its roughly 22 million visitors in December was about 770,000 fewer than its highest number, which was in August. Multiple other analysts …

Or so we’re told…

If more people had a sense of humor like this, the world would be a much happier place. For sale: I have one desk and an office chair for sale. They can be had together (they make a great team) or separately. Your choice. I’m moving and need to be …

Speaking of spending money wisely. Thanks to a recently filed Congressional expense reports there’s new light shed on the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Denmark and how much it cost taxpayers. [money tree] We’ll give you a hint: It cost a sh*t load of money. Fifty-nine House and Senate staff flew …

They made: Apple reported another blowout quarter, as net income soared to $3.38bn or $3.67 a share, from $2.26bn or $2.50 a year earlier, well above Wall Street estimates.  [record] They owe: US Government: $12,245,872,000,000 What would the US economy look like if Steve Jobs was calling the shots?

This is how Scott Brown must have felt when he won last week. Students of Olathe Northwest High School attempted to prank their teacher with the classic College Humor half court shot routine (supposed prize: four Final Four tickets) only to fall victim to an epic all-time backfire. I blame …

Be your best [one term?] Twitter threats [Lincoln] Use your Mac as a TV [budget] Should Favre retire? [maybe not] Other clever captions [man in the mirror]

Stunning. h/t Katie Harbath via Ericka Andersen [photo courtesy of @californiadcgrl]

Designers for good. The images coming in from Haiti in the aftermath of last week’s horrific earthquake continue to affect us all profoundly—and like you, we feel compelled to respond. But how? Do we give money, and to whom? Can we do MORE? As designers, developers and illustrators, we wanted …