August 2008
36 posts
Obama Stretches Lead to 8 Points
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“The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds Barack Obama moving to an eight percentage point lead over John McCain, 49% to 41%. Obama’s significant lead over McCain almost certainly reflects the effects of the Democratic National Convention. The two presidential candidates were tied at 45% in the last Gallup Poll Daily tracking results conducted entirely before the convention...
WatchFrancis and The Lights - The Top, from A Modern Promise, one of the first releases from Normative.
Fred: Please forget all the hype. Jakob Lodwick is one of the smartest, most talented people in the media.
WatchTay Zonday guests on Nite Fite! (also on YouTube)
Web Shows Endorse Sewing Machines, Cruise Ships... →
The true story behind "Welcome to the Jungle" →
an excerpt from Stephen Davis’s new book “Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N’ Roses.”
Polite Dissent →
This is why we all started reading blogs —totally unique points of view. Scott provides reviews of comics and TV from a physician’s perspective. Especially great: his medical reviews of the show House, M.D.
Is the internet awesome? →
WatchNext New Networks: the first 18 months.
Sometimes I’ll run into someone I haven’t seen in a year or two and I have no idea how to explain to them what I’ve been doing. It’s great to have a video now I can just show them. Created for us for a Mindshare event last month by the amazing Jon Kane.
Starring just a sampling of the great people we’ve worked with: Derek...
Our office in I Am Legend.
via superdoofus-stratodrive and danmeth:
In the very first scene of “I Am Legend”, Will Smith chases a herd of deer from The Flatiron Building all the way up Park Avenue. And he drives right past the office building that houses Frederator and Next New Networks. I took this screenshot of it. 419 Park Ave South. Beware of zombies.
WatchThe Tutors of 826 LA from Judd Apatow. I just stumbled across this promo Team Apatow made for 826 LA, the non-profit writing tutoring center founded by Dave Eggers. Lots of great people in the video.
Everyone, start getting excited about Gang Gang...
SXSW 2009 Panels are up for voting
SXSW is still the only event of any scale that lets potential attendees decide the programming for the festival (well, 30% of the decision), which is why it’s totally our fault (or at least 30% our fault) if people end up complaining that they didn’t like the panels. I haven’t made it through many at all of this year’s proposals yet, but here are some early ones that look...
“Am I the only dork who color-coordinates his iPhone apps?”
– Scott Moschella
WatchRusty Ward at Comic-Con.
This gave me a good laugh this morning — Barely Political took the pulse of the electorate in San Diego last week.