January 2008
im not sure what this says about me
I haven’t been to the movies on a weekday afternoon since, I can’t even remember.
asprettyasasong:
Apparently the only people that go to the movies at 4pm on a Thursday are really old ladies and me.
Shakedown at Twitter
I’d prefer the problems with Twitter lately were Joyent’s fault and not there own. Very interested to see more uptime than downtime in the future with Twitter.
Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday’s posts here and here regarding the two companies working together. Those of us at Joyent appreciate the...
Morcheeba ~ Lisa (feat. Anthony Bourdain)
(via...
“How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure.”
– C Crumb
The Emperor of Presumption →
I take refuge in the nonist.
History has seen to it that the number of artists we’ve never heard of far outweighs those which we have, and positively dwarfs, like a supercluster to a matchbook, the number which we revere. This is doubtless as it should be since every aimless young person without quantifiable interests or skills seem to eventually shuffle (or be herded) into the arts seeking...
Seems as though everyone has got the “easy” and “elegant” web applications down. Perhaps I should attempt to leap ahead in some way. What sort of “aesthetic” could I use? Hrm. How about “difficult” and “clunky.” I know it’s been done before but that was back in 2007. I think it’s time “complicated” and...
Instapaper →
Yet, another idea I can cross off the “get off your ass and do this” list. Today is my birthday and am very keen on reminding myself that 1 I have a ton of ideas all remaining largely unstarted and 2 I have yet to put together a team of fun, smarties to trust with them.
Oh and is this the beginning of the end of passwords?
marco:
I’m ready to direct some traffic to my little...
WatchSome of the best 35 minutes you’ll spend today.
Bill Strickland is a leader. It’s a shame our political system is incompatible with men like him. Bless his ego, it’s worth its weight in gold.
Calacanis on turning that idea into a company →
When you start a new company your job as founder is, in large part, to help people understand the vision. To help them explain why the idea you have, which on the face might seem somewhere between impossible and crazy, is—in fact—completely logical and obtainable. If you’re like me you’ve found that different folks respond differently to your idea at different points in the...
Audio interview with Morgran Spurlock on his docu... →
Already talked about this briefly but I’m so curious to hear from the Terry Gilliam camp about the new film. Metafilter is talking. If you haven’t, do see Lost in La Mancha for perspective on Terry Gilliam’s filmmaking curse.
A Beautiful War, Comicopera, Robert Wyatt.
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“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”
If you, like myself, thought An Inconvenient Truth was a weak, at best, example of documentary film, Ben Stein seems to have made its equal and opposite twin. He’s calling it Expelled and it is apparently made in support of intelligent design. I’ve watched Ben Stein’s logic fail him over the years mostly on CBS’ Sunday Morning program where he frequently produces...
I do not intend to shift focus off the tragedy for Heath Ledger’s family but I’m as convinced as ever that Terry Gilliam is cursed. I love Terry Gilliam’s movies but I do not think I’d sign up to be in one. google it.
weather.com landing page(unauthenticated): percentage of actual, useful information = 10%. And that’s being generous.
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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest...”
– Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974. US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....”
– Steve Jobs
(via sunluvr)
Nabokov wanted his final, unfinished work...
“the most concentrated distillation of [Nabokov’s] creativity.”
Does it matter what V.N. would feel, since he’s long dead? Do we owe no respect to his last wishes because we greedily want some “key” to his work, or just more of it for our own selfish reasons? Does the lust for aesthetic beauty always allow us to rationalize trampling on the artist’s...
Goats are the Devil's cats. Discuss →
Healthy 29 year old man dies after police tase him
What did police do before the Taser gun? Let’s go back to that.
My email response from Hasbro.
Thank you for contacting Hasbro, Inc. We are pleased to be able to respond.
Hasbro and Mattel have jointly issued cease and desist notices to four parties involved in the development, hosting and marketing of Scrabulous, an Internet-based game that is a gross copyright and trademark infringement of Hasbro’s SCRABBLE rights in the U.S. and Canada and Mattel’s...
“The heart of the innovation process has to do with prospecting, mining,...”
– Bill Buxton’s The Long Nose of Innovation
New Topical Busted Tee →
— rickyv