July 2008
9 posts
We're Watching: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog →
…the real thrill is watching Felicia in it because she’s now one of us, and realizing that she’s helping make Harris and Fillion and Whedon and every person involved in the production one of us, too.
Watchbijan writes:
Check out Episode 1 of a new show, Nite Fite, launched by our portfolio company Next New Networks. It’s hilarious.
Tim Shey has a post about Nite Fite over on the N3 blog.
Thanks, Bijan! Hope people like the show. The comments on the site so far have been amazing.
WatchPeople in the office were making fun of my chocolate donut breakfast this morning, so I had to remind them of this classic SNL commercial with John Belushi.
Yatta Explains How Copy+Paste Was Invented
yatta: i need to look up my old blog posts
yatta: b/c i used to type them into my blog.
yatta: a long time ago
ellie: you would TYPE them?
ellie: you're not that old before copy and paste was invented
yatta: copy and paste was invented in 2005
yatta: don't make fun. back then, all we had was 'copy'
yatta: we would copy shit but not have anything we could do with it
yatta: it'd take up all 256MB of our RAM
yatta: we'd sit there and think, daymn. what am i gonna do with all of that shit I just copied.
yatta: and then one day, a man by the name Lucious Paste invented a technique we all came to call 'Pasteogramy'
yatta: or 'Paste' for short.
yatta: thus, 'pasting' was born
yatta: but it wasn't until a patent dispute between Marcielo Copy and Lucious Paste was settled for the sum of $500 and a chicken that 'copy' and 'paste' could be combined into a single action.
yatta: Hence the 'copy and paste' we all take for granted.
ellie: ....
ellie: your kids are going to be really bored one day.
“It’s not a good idea to remind Prius owners that the car still burns...”
– Christian Lander (“Stuff White People Like”) – Salon Interview
Behind the Viral Video: What's Fake, What's Real →
(NPR’s Talk of the Nation) Internet entrepreneur Jonah Peretti, hula-hooping viral video star Lauren Bernat and TV Week contributing writer Daisy Whitney talk about the highly controlled world of “viral video” and what’s real, what’s fake and how video became a big gun in the online marketing arsenal.