February 2008
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Frank Olinsky has a blog. →
The brilliant designer of, among other things, the MTV logo and the album packaging for R.E.M.’s Green and Sonic Youth’s Goo and a personal hero of mine, is posting a lot of gems. I love his Dogs Waiting for Their Humans and Secret Machines (before and after) posts especially.
“I’m very much looking forward to all the milkshakes I’m going to...”
– Daniel Day Lewis, backstage at the Oscars
“There’s a community that you get with Harry Potter that you don’t...”
– Dr. Jeffrey Rudski, whose new study concludes that Harry Potter is addictive.
WatchI’m so proud of the NNN LA correspondents who covered the Spirit Awards in such a fun (and cost-effective!) way. Congrats and thanks to Vanessa, Zadi, Steve, Michelle, Mike and especially Dave for a brilliant hosting job. Extra credit for getting Diablo Cody on the show! michelle blogs:Here’s the package I helped produce at the Independent Spirit Awards. Dave did a GREAT job hosting and...
“I’d watch the Oscars if they executed the losers.”
– Twitter / Warren Ellis
Life without Charlie →
What would the world be like without Charlie Brown?
Buzzfeed: No One Cares →
Buzzfeed collected together all of their least popular trends, based on how few people clicked on them, including Celebrity Memoirs, Green Rock Tours, and IHOP’s Pancake Day “controversy.” The only one that bums me out: only 150 clicks for “Not Caring About New Orleans Again,” which may have just been due to a less than catchy trend title choice by the editors (whom...
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what mills wrote in response to me: I tend to resist reducing art into schema that merely describe what are fundamentally political or philosophical issues, partly because to do so makes art more superficial and partly because it’s usually wrong, inasmuch as creators don’t build worlds of human depth merely to symbolize some shallow thesis. However, I agree with Tim about this movie, despite some...
TUAW offers an iPhone LoJack solution →
using a command-line program and Twitter, of all things. You could also do this using Tumblr, and maybe have it also post photos of whatever it can see.
Daniel Day-Lewis to Open Milkshake Parlor Chain
Exclusive Movie News: Oscar winning thespian Daniel Day-Lewis disclosed plans Monday to open a nation-wide chain of milkshake parlors named There Will Be Milkshakes!, in reference to his latest film and acclaimed performance in There Will Be Blood. When asked how his milkshake parlors would manage to compete with established ice cream franchises such as Dairy Queen and Steak and Shakes, a bent,...
“I always got really offended when they had a little white guy explaining to a...”
– Michel Gondry on ‘Be Kind Rewind’ and How He’d Fix ‘Back to the Future’
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Stephanie Zacharek wonders in today’s Salon whether Daniel Day-Lewis was too great to be good in There Will Be Blood — that is, by abandoning naturalism in his acting he’s not made the best choices for the movie. I’ve heard similar opinions from very smart friends of mine, both of whom in a 24-hour period called the movie “a great character sketch” but that...
“As far as I can tell, Apple only ever sold one of these… to Next New Networks.”
– Marco.org: Apple quietly discontinued the Xserve RAID.
Watchjoshleo sez: “This series is gonna ROCK!”
Will.I.Am's 'Yes We Can' Obama Video Spawns John... →
(via nextnews)
Watch‘alice’ - the first video from moby’s new album ‘last night’. directed by Andreas Nilsson with guest rappers Aynzil and the 419 Squad.
“If Obama really wants to be the Google president, he should promise to “do...”
– Fred Wilson: The Google President
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“As First Lady, Hillary marched in a gay-pride parade, and she has done so...”
– Why Barack’s Mojo With the Gays Can’t Match Hillary’s - New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer
“Obama’s winning margins ranged from substantial to crushing.”
– Obama sweeps 3 states, Virgin Islands - Yahoo! News This is the most fascinating primary contest I’ve ever seen. I haven’t come out for either Obama or Clinton publicly, because I actually like them both — at age 17, in ‘92, I volunteered for the Clinton campaign, and the...
Breach
Rachel and I just watched the excellent movie Breach, and as the credits were rolling already had a laptop out to read the Wikipedia entry for Robert Hanssen and compare the true story to the one in the film, figuring about which elements were added to the story for dramatic effect, and why. Fifteen minutes later, I laughed to visit Jason Kottke’s blog and read that he’d done the...
Visualizing Social Media Fatigue →
Don’t spend a lot of time on the exhausting diagram and instead read the comments on this post. Extremely interesting. Reblogged from mills.
Indy Mogul's Erik Beck is Yahoo's latest addition... →
Holy smokes, congratulations, Erik! This is unbelievable. Should start getting heavy rotation on Yahoo! in the coming week.
WatchSpace Cowboy on Mars: “The Saga of the Space Cowboy” “This week’s Meth Minute was written when I was a kid. For real. In 8th grade, I drew what I thought was a “graphic novel” (you can read it in about 20 minutes) about a cowboy who lives on the moon and saves the universe. It was meant to be a dark and gritty epic adventure but most people mistook it for intentional comedy. Recently some friends...
Super Tuesday live from the people.
Over at Veracifier we’ve partnered with TheUptake to sponsor their citizen coverage of Super Tuesday. I can’t seem to embed the player here, but we will have a mix of live and recorded coverage throughout the day from people all over the country, including online video cool kids Chuck Olsen and Jackson West. Check it out on the Veracifier site, which also has our blog posts all day...
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