DAY INTO NIGHTTIME, NIGHT INTO DAYTIME

So, I finally got some photos up from Pai's wedding in Vegas. Took me a while to edit them down ... and there's still 100 of them. So ... sucks for you.

Heading to Miami in a few minutes here for Wedding #3. At least I hope I am. For now I'm stuck at the airport in Indy ... flight was having maintenance issues. Scintillating stuff, I know. Which brings me to Twitter.

Have you seen this thing? Apparently it was all the rage at SXSW this year. It's like a blog for text messagers. You subscribe to people's Twitter ... feeds? streams? dunno ... and then they are supposed to send out little msgs about what they are up to at any given moment. So, you'd sign up for my Twitter Thingamahoo and you'd get something like "Flight's delayed at the airport." And for some reason you would care.

I really have no idea what the effing point of this thing is, but then I thought the same thing about text messaging. And iPods. So I figure we'll all be on Twitter before the next snowfall.

OH, RICH LITTLE, YOU STILL GOT IT!

So, you may recall last year that Stephen Colbert was the featured guest at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner. And he was widely accused of being ... not funny. Not funny. Not. Funny. Despite gems like this:

"I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message: that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound -- with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world."

and this:

"Everybody asks for personnel changes. So the White House has personnel changes. Then you write, "Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!"

So, fearing another backlash, the organizers this year decided to go with somebody a little ... safer. Rich Little.

Now, the last time Little hosted the dinner, it was 1984. But after seeing his act on C-SPAN last night you could tell he hasn't missed a beat! Yes, from his spot-on impersonation of Johnny Carson to his hi-larious send-up of Ronald Reagan (Ha ha! He sure is forgetful for some reason!) Rich Little had the room in the palm of his hand. But then: The Big Finish. Little, as former President Richard Nixon, sang a parody version of Frank Sinatra's song My Way! Bra-VO! Nixon certainly did do it "his way!" Oh, topical humor, how I love you so!

THREE WEDDINGS AND A GOOGLE

So I had a great time at McKelvey's wedding over the weekend. There were a bunch of DePauw-types in town for the ceremony and everyone seemed to enjoy the Indian/Indiana themed reception. The after-party at Blu ... was perhaps overkill. But I'll let you be the judge of that from the photos I Flickr-ized.

Next up: Pai's wedding this weekend in Vegas and Heather's wedding in Miami at the end of the month. Game on!


COOLEST THING EVER: Fortt recently wrote about a new service from Google that essentially duplicates the business search feature of the phone company's 411 service. Just call 1-800-GOOG-411, say your city and state and the business you are looking for. Using voice-recognition software, Google will connect you. For freaking free. Awesome. I (heart) those guys.

GET GET GET YOU DRUNK

Alanis Morissette. Covers. "My Humps."

I (HEART) BROOKLYN BEER

We did it, America! The Washington Post's craft brewing smackdown "Beer Madness" has finally produced a winner: our beloved Brooklyn Lager! Now, some might argue that "we" had nothing to do with it, as the winners of each round were determined by a pre-selected panel of judges. To them I say: Pish-tosh. Other haters and conspiracy theorists might suggest that Brooklyn had a cush run (defeating Coors, Sam Adams and Rolling Rock to get to the final round) while Yuengling and Shiner Bock were tragically forced to go head-to-head in the first round. To them I say: Poppycock! Brooklyn beer rocks.

If you need further proof, (Not that you do. It's beer! It's good!) design/newspaper nerds should take notice of these two factoids:

>> Brooklyn Brewery was started by a former AP reporter who was stationed in the Middle East. While living in Saudi Arabia (where you can't buy beer), the founder began brewing beer on his own. After moving back to New York, he soon realized that making beer was way better than journalism and started the brewery.

>> The brewery's handsome logo, styled after the old Brooklyn Dodgers logo, was designed by Milton Glaser, designer of the "I (heart) NY" logo.

Case closed. So grab a slice and raise a glass to one of the finest beers in America: Brooklyn Lager!

MEANWHILE, JOBS WASN'T BLUFFING: Is copy-protection-free music coming to the iTunes store?