February 2008
48 posts
I’m watching LOST for the first time and I’m really happy that I never did it before. How did so many millions of fans sat through this high of a commercial saturation? It’s crazy. And really, really, really annoying. I know that lots of people just watch the DVDs…but come on, they couldn’t have found someone to sponsor a “limited commercial interruption”...
January 2008
39 posts
2008 Presidential Race Oil Donations, visualized →
“Don’t trust your instinct. It’s based on your experience and...”
Why I Don’t Trust the Craftsmanship of Swedes →
Minireview: Children of Men
It’s surprising that no one insisted I see see this earlier. Why didn’t you tell me? Beyond that, the plot, characters, direction (some CRAZY single shot action sequences!), and production design all showed great attention to detail. A well conceived and executed vision of a near possible future without introducing any Minority Report style gee-whizery. Michael Caine’s character...
CNN: Satellite is weeks away from hitting Earth →
Oh no, this is certainly going to wake the Cloverfield monster. We’re doomed.
“If Central Park is no longer called Central Park, but is officially referred to...”
– William Gibson, makes a really good point about Cloverfield’s introduction. Any great experience, be it video game, movie, ARG, TV show, board game, etc., can sacrifice a lot of hard work by overlooking 1% of the details. Even if the experience isn’t trying to fool you (e.g. nonfiction...
Matt joins tumblr. Twitter 0, tumblr 1. →
“Ed.miserable=false”
– Matt’s attempt at curing my ailments. Matt.success=false.
U.S. Video Game Software Sales to Hit $10 Billion... →
“very good stuff — netflix took me 2 clicks to update all movies in my...”
– Erik, on a good experience
Statue of Liberty vs. Science Fiction →
“Personally, I never really thought about Scrabble until I saw the flood of...”
– Matt Dickman on Hasbro’s handling of the Scrabulous affair. But Facebook spam is still spam.
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If I click on “Print”…show me the whole article, not a paginated version. Please?
Know what’s funnier than a funny movie? Quoting the entire movie just seconds before a line occurs. Hilarious.
For Matt: I attempted an easy 1 and almost died.
Hasbro Attempting To Shut Down Scrabulous →
Take that, addiction!
I wanted to go to bed early.
“We hope that knols will include the opinions and points of view of the authors...”
– Google, on their new Wikipedia-like project called “knol”. I like the sound of that, but I wonder what they’ll do to avoid the amount of spam entries created to generate Google ad funds.
If you are in Georgetown, you must get an apple cider from Baked & Wired. It’s the best I’ve ever had.
“Oops! You need the latest version of the Turner Media Plugin to view this video....”
– CNN.com. Turner Media Plugin? No thanks.
Photos from the decapitator →
BBC - 100 things we didn't know last year →
Here’s an idea for an industrial designer: a small trash bin designed for use with plastic grocery bags. Lots of people use them, but they never seem to fit properly in most trash bins.
Net-Art generator...amazing creations, via William... →
Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan →
“Aspergers is the new ADD.”
– Daniel Levin-Becker, New Year’s Eve 2007.
Gawker launches a sci-fi blog, io9 →
— jimray
