January 2008
31 posts
“I had just been asked a question — I don’t remember which one — and Obama was...”
– Bill Richardson on the debates
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just took 3 hours to whittle my gmail inbox down from 900+ messages to 0. i feel filthy.
Slide [widget + Facebook application company] is... →
I never really understood how ridiculously big the Web 2.0 bubble has gotten until I saw this article. If a company that makes dumb little Facebook applications and crazy little widgets can be valued at half a billion dollars… shoot me in the head right now.
“The most famous, of course, is Jenna Jameson, who I want to say to any young...”
– Nina Hartley, in an interview with The A.V. Club
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HP Commercial Within "Jumper" Trailer →
This aired on television. Pretty ridiculous.
CLAY AIKEN is the newest cast member of SPAMALOT →
exactly.
Karl Rove lists Borges among his favorite authors →
“So you want me to run for president again? Yeah, sure, absolutely, I’ll do...”
– Jimmy Carter
“people started asking for my raw footage so that they could remix my stuff. I...”
– overheard by zefrank
“There are no mistakes of any kind on this album.”
– Stephen Merritt, concerning the new Magnetic Fields LP “Distortion”
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How the iPhone Was Made? Maybe? →
An article from Wired. With almost no direct quotes or references.
YouTube - Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper →
this must have taken FOREVER
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BigThink →
There was a New York Times profile about this site - an online video startup featuring interviews by “experts”. The article says that they want to be a place that academics and students can turn to when looking for original sources. Some of the experts are pretty interesting:
Tom Freston [MTV / Viacom] Dan Glickman [Motion Picture Association of America, President] Richard Branson...
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“I’m gonna be taking a nap because you called me when I was banging my...”
– Ken Jeong, Knocked Up
Human Tetris Japan [YouTube] →
extremely compelling
WSJ Editorial on Obama/Huckabee →
Reznor Disappointed by Digital Music Sales Data →
Statistics for Saul William’s album, accompanied by reasons why it may not have been so “disappointing”. Interesting stuff… one of the first set of statistics to be released about this developing business model.
Forget Kenya, Let's Talk Scoble →
This article acts as a good explanation of why the blogosphere is a disgusting outgrowth of the tech community and should be extinguished immediately. People complain about the mainstream media’s excessive coverage of Paris Hilton’s prison sentence and then they spend an entire day reporting this bullshit? Facebook is evil, Scoble is a crazy guy who does weird things like run automated...
RUMOR: Jay-Z launching record label with Apple →
CBC Documentary: Paris Hilton, Inc. →
Good stuff.
if anyone reads this...
i’ve been trying for years to find a workflow for no-budget online creative collaboration that works for everyone involved. it’s pretty difficult, especially when i was in high school leading kids my age or younger - there’s always that one guy or gal that has the dial-up connection or the PC running fucken Windows 95 or the strict parents that constantly monitor Internet use.
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The SixtyOne →
Digg meets iTunes. Exceptional site design and UI, and some pretty good music.
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“I was in the airport about to go to Atlanta from Tallahassee. I went into the...”
– T-Pain, explaining where he found the inspiration to record verses for R. Kelly’s “I’m a Flirt”. Reblogged from Vulture.
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“I knew it was pretty much over for television news when I discovered in 2003...”
– John Hockenberry