WSJquips

Whenever the WSJ gets punchy, I get giddy. The Photoshopped telethon image is riotous, and very un-WSJ. All the better. http://is.gd/N4yN

You know you've made it when the WSJ uses your nickname--Black Swan--and not your actual company name in a headline. http://is.gd/LoZm

Reads like Peggy Noonan. But how hard do you have to work before you can figure out who wrote this Sotomayor pap? http://is.gd/JEFc

Unsure whether to be impressed or terrified by the WSJ using South Park as a way to argue against Obama policies. http://is.gd/EGWW

Any weirdness in the WSJ is welcome, especially in its contractions. "There mightn't be a rush for the exits." http://is.gd/BYDB

Community banks: Dying or thriving? WSJ says the latter: http://is.gd/BiGl NYT Mag says the former: http://is.gd/BiGc

No URL yet, but the WSJ now has Steven Friedman's scalp.

The coolest interactive infographic WSJ.com has run yet. Extremely helpful to understand the stress test shenanigans. http://is.gd/xsuQ

Worth reading for the headline alone: http://is.gd/wzjj

A rare trend story with actual statistics to help prove the thesis. http://is.gd/vzUW

"Who's South Africa's first (and second and third) lady?" Does the Slate Explainer proud. http://is.gd/vzJR

WSJ gets the last laugh, puts Death of Portfolio story on B8. http://is.gd/v5ar

@kevin_reiss The TwitterFeed RSS will die an unremarkable death, with handpicked links and content to TBM and other outlets.

We're thinking of merging @WSJQuips with its parent @TheBigMoney. We'll continue to critique media and the economy there. Thoughts?

Piece about private-label electronics never bothers to define what private-label electronics are. http://is.gd/uQHQ

Worthy piercing of Facebook study. I'd write this on columnist's wall, but that would be so '08. So I Twitter instead. http://is.gd/tR38

"Giving Barney Frank more voting power is more likely to induce panic than restore confidence." Barney, you got served. http://is.gd/tDRB

Every now and then, we're reminded that newspapers can kick the govt in the teeth when they want to. Treasury gets booted: http://is.gd/tqso

What's more dispiriting? Running a trend story on Comic Sans in 2009, or that it provoked 210 comments within 5 hours? http://is.gd/tqpb

Story about tech behind Benjamin Button is running now? As opposed to Oscar season, when we saw it a million times? http://is.gd/tnpI