Olympics observation: The phrase “throwing down” and “straight up” will go mainstream after a few more days of snowboard coverage. I’m expecting bloggers to start writing, “Jeff sure threw down a great post this morning, straight up.” I’m off to bed so I can get up at 2 a.m. to watch live coverage of curling. Not.

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Bizarre: Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally
shot and injured a man during a weekend quail-hunting trip in
Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday. (Being “sprayed with pellets” can mean lots of different things. Even I’ve been sprayed with pellets. However, when the Vice-President of the United States is the “gun man,” well, that’s big news.) Count-down to headline including the phrase “not just shooting himself in the foot.”

Update: “Whittington was bleeding, but he was
not very seriously injured, she said. Cheney was very apologetic, she added.” I would hope.

Top ticking is the new shark jumping: John Battelle says Google has jumped the shark because it’s on the cover of Time. I prefer to use Rich Karlgaards term that describes the same phenomenon: Google has “top-ticked.”

For the record, I also think (scroll to update) ‘is the new’ is the new ‘is the new’ has top-ticked the shark.

(Bonus side note: Three out of the past four covers of Time have used the weasel approach to cover blurb copy-writing: they’ve asked questions. Dick Stolley once told me that questions on the cover of a magazine indicate the editor believes the reader has a better idea of the answer than the magazine does.)

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Scott Adams (Dilbert cartoonist): (Funny stuff you’ll find on Scott’s blog, but not in the newspaper.) “People often ask me why I don’t draw political cartoons. So I tried one. I think you’ll agree that the world is better off without it.”

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Dave Barry on how to watch the winter Olympics: “It’s time once again for the Winter Olympics — three magical weeks during which all of America will gather in front of the television set to watch American Idol.”

Thanks, Bill

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Snow’d: Rafat is stuck in New York City. So he’s taking photos. Tom Biro is taking photos in New Jersey.