October 2007
51 posts
late night playlist
Some unheralded programmer at VH1 put together a good set of videos I hadn’t really watched before late tonight in their nocturnal block, and it had a nice flow I felt like preserving here. A quick check found the string of videos all available in pretty high quality from their record labels on YouTube. To embed them here in the order I saw them (previous four posts), I only had to cheat...
What’s Next for Eric Olson: BuzzFeed and NYC →
WatchI’d really love to think we had something to do with Jakob starting this, but we probably didn’t.
Share the Kawaii
We’re trying out a new thing — video badges people can use to add our networks to their own sites or blogs. Here’s one for our latest network, Ultra Kawaii, which always has the latest episode.
You can get the embed code here.
“I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a...”
– Syndicated radio retard Glenn Beck (via Wil)
Breathless gets the Criterion DVD treatment this... →
“People used to send anthrax in the mail,” my mom added, as if it were once...”
– I Like to Watch
first batch of sxsw 2008 panels announced →
Including my own “Quit Your Day Job and Vlog,” where we’ll talk about whether that’s really possible yet.
old habits
My friend Nate recently asked me what I thought of the CNN.com redesign, and I realized I hadn’t even hit the url deliberately in years — then it occurred to me that I mostly regularly check the same sites now I did five years ago. NYTimes, kottke.org, Boing Boing, and to a lesser bit Salon and Wired remain my tried and true filters… besides friends’ blogs, Wikipedia and...
WatchColbert’s Big Announcement - from the new Daily Show website, which really gets it right. Wow.
Designers critique the new NYC Taxi Logo. →
I’d actually been wondering about the newly painted taxis and at first wondering if they were legit. (thx yatta)
“Your president giggled and grinned while discussing World War III today:
...”
– Bob Cesca: World War III Is Going To Be Hilarious
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“Don’t let yourself think you’re more clever than another...”
– Legal Suicide for Web 2.0 start-ups: a beginner’s guide
Wikipedia's list of television spin-offs →
Enjoyed skimming over this, as I’ve always been fascinated by the spin-off as a phenomenon. I guess we’ve already had a couple of spin-offs at Next New Networks; Fashion Enemy from Thread Heads, The Stack from Pulp Secret Report, and Q and Erik from Backyard FX. The one thing about spin-offs is that they always only have one parent show. What if two shows got together and had a...
watching torchwood
Rachel: Why's that guy all Tom Cruise?
Me: That's Captain Jack. He was a big character on Doctor Who last season. He's an alien. From the future. And he's a little bit gay.
Rachel: How's that different from Tom Cruise?
Watch“Nite Fite” - The Meth Minute 39
“Hillary’s laugh is unusually uninhibited for a politician—especially, perhaps,...”
– Brouhahaha: The New Yorker
The ARKive →
a site dedicated to creating a lasting audio-visual record of life on Earth. Tons of cool stuff here.
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small town
Tonight four of us left the office and tried to grab a cab to take us down to a restaurant my wife and I recently found in Tribeca, which is a neighborhood most of us rarely if ever go to. We looked across the street, saw one of my business partners also trying unsuccessfully to hail a cab, and thought it was funny that we were going to a restaurant in his neighborhood, and maybe we should jump...
WatchThe Meth Minute 39: Sex Machine - today we dropped the second episode of Channel Frederator’s original series, which debuted with “Internet People.” The next 37 weeks should be fun.
radiohead: pay what you like to download our album →
(thanks, rachel!)
