November 2007
36 posts
WatchRudy Returns
Watch justin johnson’s latest vidblog: it’s great to see our work, and the city, through someone else’s eyes. (view in HD)
Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. A little...
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“Next year, you’re going to see a lot of new novels.”
– Joss Whedon on the writer’s strike
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RCRD LBL: Peter Rojas’ new label / blog. Interesting. Different. via fred-wilson.
Writers' Strike is now following you on Twitter!
Begin forwarded message:
> Hi, Tim Shey.
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> Writers’ Strike (writersstrike) is now following your updates on Twitter.
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> Check out Writers’ Strike’s profile here:
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> http://twitter.com/writersstrike
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> Best,
> Twitter
“Tumblr is basically Blogger stripped of all its features.”
– Valleywag: “High school dropout scams VC for $1 million” (hooray, David! You’re in Valleywag.)
“Change always provokes fear, but I’d once believed that the death of our beloved...”
– LOST’s Damon Lindelof in The New York Times: a must-read.
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Salka, from Hvarf - Heim, the new Sigur Ros album,...
Bachelor recipes by Nick Douglas
Lapsang oil bread Sit some Italian bread in a cupboard next to a bag of Lapsang Souchong tea. After a day, break off pieces of the bread one by one, dipping them in a dish of olive oil and eating them. Peanut butter cinnamon sugar toast Make toast. Put peanut butter on it. Put cinnamon on it. Put sugar on it. Almost pancakes Stir powdered mix into milk. Look for eggs. Read back of mix box. Make...
shoot the moon →
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has released the first ever HD footage of the Moon, taken from lunar orbit from the unmanned spacecraft Kaguya (or “Selene,” an acronym for “SELenological and ENgineering Explorer”) at an altitude of about 100 km on October 18, 2007.
Here are some 3D models of Kaguya if someone wanted to, say, put one in an upcoming Galacticast...
bench racing
This is the kind of great stuff I get to overhear sitting among the car nuts who make Fast Lane Daily. “Bench racing” is when people argue about which of their cars is supposedly faster and would win a race based on their specs or customizations they’ve made.
WatchMy NNN boys, Erik and Justin, at Podcamp Boston last week (via Vimeo)
WatchI really enjoyed this wedding dance video from Schlomo.
proofreading a document
Tim: I think Romulans is spelled wrong. It's "A-N-S."
Tim: That may be the nerdiest thing I've ever said.
From the Front Lines of the WGA Strike →
Writers and film crews are facing off across 4th Street, with the writers interrupting the filming with megaphones.
Ian Jenkins' Vegas wrap-up.
Ian’s a soulful young dude who keeps Fast Lane Daily rolling, and all I know is that everyone in the office seems to want to hug the guy at all times. Maybe it’s because all we seem to do is devise new means of torture for him, like sending him to Las Vegas for a week to cover the SEMA auto show. Ian’s diary’s a trip — check it out for some great shots of him filming...
