This video is apparently from July, which makes it about 100 years old in Internet time, but “just now going viral.” And you know what? I am not going to be the Old Police for once. This is just some awesome bear video going on right here, and I would feel terrible about myself if I did not share it with you.

ANGRILY SHAKING MY HEAD. (From Rebecca Mead’s subscriber-only Talk of the Town today on Diana Taylor, who is Mike Bloomberg’s human companion.) Good grief, go back to undermining unions, Wilbur Ross, before we send in all the mannish professional women who don’t care about showing you their legs.

“Every Italian feels he or she stands alone against the world, or at least the neighbors. Survival — personal, family, social and economic — is a source of pride and a test of ingenuity. Much has been written about Italians’ individualism and resourcefulness, and Mr. Berlusconi embodies these qualities. First he amassed his fortune, earning his spurs as a self-made man. Next, he built on Italians’ distrust of everything shared, our intolerance of rules and the inner satisfaction that we take in finding private solutions to collective problems. In Italy, there is no real public pressure for a new, fairer tax system. People simply figure out ways to evade the one they already have.”
 — Here’s why Italians still put up with Silvio Berlusconi after everything.

If you’ve never quite understood the Schrödinger’s cat experiment, maybe this animated explanation will help you. Or maybe not; I still don’t get it. But, you know, it’s quantum mechanics, I’m not gonna beat myself up about it too much. All I know is that if a cat’s in that box, there is probably a bunch of cat crap in there as well. And this is why I am not a scientist.

“What makes individual stockbrokers blow billions in financial markets with criminal trading schemes? According to a new study conducted at a Swiss university, it may be because share traders behave more recklessly and are more manipulative than psychopaths.”
 — I have to imagine this will only bring joy to the traders. Like, “Take that, psychopaths, we are even more heartless and irresponsible than you are, and that’s your whole thing! Traders rock!”

Anyone attempting to rob the grave of the late Frito-Lay executive Arch West will get the same unpleasant surprise as millions of Americans have when they’ve lifted up the cushions in the couch in the TV room while looking for quarters to do laundry or tip a pizza delivery guy. West, who died on Tuesday in Dallas at the age of 97, invented Doritos, and when he is buried this weekend, according to a statement issued by his daughter, his family will honor him by “tossing Doritos chips in before they put the dirt over the urn.” (Also, though, in light of this Doritos commercial from a couple of years ago, there is the possibility that West could be faking his own death.)

Here you will find some photos of a sheep who thinks he’s a dog.

$85 million sounds like a lot of money! That’s what Tumblr just raised, on top of the $30 million they raised ten months ago, bringing their investment dollars to a bit north of $120 million. There’s a staff of 50 (now only 82% male!), so that’s like $5 million a year right there. (Also, they’ve outsourced tech support (rather poorly; if you ask Tumblr for help with something, you get some dude copying and pasting a manual at you) with some minimal supervision, and that’s probably a significant, if user-annoying, cost savings.) But staff costs are surely dwarfed by the cost of doing at the very least 156 billion pageviews a year, particularly when those pageviews are mostly “borrowed” copyrighted high-res images of cats and/or starving girls. (That cost is the joy of being an actual tech company, not a “media company.”) By very back-of-the-envelope calculations, Tumblr’s adorable own neighborhood in some cute server farm costs a lot more than that. So by necessity, they’ll be rolling out the “how we will make money” plan in 2012. Somewhere at Tumblr HQ, there’s a graph where a red line of money being spent points down and a blue (or maybe green????) line of “projected revenue” points up. Hmm, hey, HOW ABOUT COUPONS? I hear coupons are hot right now.

Anonymous should really make Ticketmaster their next target. #radioheadMon Sep 26 14:21:52 via web

Michael Neff
heyneff

Everyone in the Radiohead demographic hates Ticketmaster so much right now. MACHINES SAY: SCALPING IS GOOD BUSINESS.

The whole process of buying concert tickets online really sucks.Mon Sep 26 14:12:37 via Twitter for Mac

Jeremy Zilar
jeremyzilar

Very irritated I didn’t get Radiohead itckets. BIRTHDAY RUINED!!Mon Sep 26 14:26:11 via web

Jason Kottke
jkottke

If anyone actually got Radiohead tickets and for some reason has an extra, I would do very degrading things for it.Mon Sep 26 14:09:07 via Twitter for Mac

Adam Frucci
frucci

… this morning new yorkers are rediscovered their hatred of ticketmaster, disappointment & typing captcha under pressure. #radioheadMon Sep 26 14:21:39 via web

nick ramsey
nick_ramsey

<rimshot> RT @ComfortablySmug: Tickets to the Radiohead concert, much like the band itself, have completely sold outMon Sep 26 14:21:53 via TweetDeck

Lee Distad
LeeDistad

NOW GLOATING BEGINS FOR FEW SUCCESSFUL HUMANS WHO GOT TICKETS!

by Simon Dumenco

The New York Times thinks it maybe saw something… so it’s saying something. In a Sunday afternoon post titled “Video Appears to Show Wall Street Protesters Being Pepper-Sprayed,” the paper’s City Room blog embedded a video — originally posted by YouTube user USLAWdotcom — and offered a delicate take on the proceedings.

In slow motion, and with annotation explaining what is happening, the video seems to show a high-ranking member of the New York Police Department spraying a substance — the video says it is Mace or pepper spray — toward several women who were standing behind a wall of orange netting. After the spraying, one woman can be seen dropping to the ground, screaming in apparent pain.

Sure, it could be Mace or pepper spray — but maybe it was Axe or Binaca. (Some street protesters are known to have, how to put this, hygiene issues?) The pain, at least, was “apparent.”

The Occupy Wall Street website had a somewhat less reserved interpretation of the spraying incident, presenting its embed with the caption “This is a white-collar police officer macing penned-in young women,” followed by a still photo of “a white-collar police officer reaching over a barricade and ripping a young woman’s hair out” (but maybe he was just giving her a scalp massage?), as well as “a video from September 20th of two white-collar police officers throwing a protester face first towards the ground” (but maybe they were just playfully wrestling?) and other highlights.

This account, from September 19th, at least is written by someone capable of describing what he sees.

Simon Dumenco is a media columnist for Advertising Age.