February 2011
21 posts
NBA players should be ashamed. Soccer guys can work wonders dribbling with their feet, and the top tier NBA stars can’t even dribble across the court with their hands without traveling.
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Kumail on Conan, spoiler alert: He fucking KILLS.
Ha! Was just about to post this, but Jonah already did all the hard work or pasting in the embed code.
Kumail gave The Meltdown crowd a preview on Wednesday… he killed then and I still laughed having already heard the routine.
WatchInterview and slideshow with the power trio behind The Meltdown, LA’s hottest comedy show.
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I just read a comment that said “social media is liberal with socialist overtones”. Not sure it was a typo on the commenter’s part. But do they know what they said by writing that?
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Apple's Greed
I wouldn’t be so pissed off on behalf of publishers if Apple was only trying to take a 10% cut of in-app purchases. Yeah, I understand how that would turn the market on its head and get people releasing more free apps with purchase points after the initial download. You know what you do about that?
Set up a different price point for that tactic.
I’m looking at how Readability and...
Huck Finn Robot Edition Takes Kickstarter By Storm →
In which your humble narrator interviews one half of Diani & Devine, the diabolical masterminds behind the plot to replace the “n-word” with the term “robot”.
Some Public School Love
This here’s a little slideshow/audio thingamajig that we put together during the long incubation of TurnStyle. I got the bosses to resurface it— along with the interview I did with Natasha Vargas-Cooper— thanks to the new session of Public School that’s going down at the M-Bar tonight.
You should go.
SuperBrit: No More American Action Heroes? →
Sometimes my day job let’s me go off on a seriocomic rant like this one in reaction to the news that a durn forenur was cast as Superman:
Robert Downey Jr. has Iron Man and Ryan Renyolds is Green Lantern, but these are exceptions that prove a rule: America is tapped out when it comes to producing action heroes. Clash of the Titans’ Sam Worthington? Australian. This year’s Cowboys and...
Barrett Garese: Some takeaway thoughts from this... →
spytap:
So after hearing about it for a while, I finally found myself able to join the weekly #WebSeriesChat convo on twitter. All in all, a lively conversation that included a number of different opinions from a number of very smart people. Since I had to step away partway through and just missed the…
Barrett is criminally smart.
If the “main problem” with a place (that isn’t your home or a set location) is that the “exposure is all wrong” the ACTUAL problem is you’re a fucking patrician.
One Day...
I will tell you all the story of this day. How it was so banaly-insane. How I spotted the string on the yo-you of my life, yanked with all my might, and found myself above it all.
But first I gotta play this copy of Civ 5 I bought because my… well, that would be telling.
WatchHow I Learned To Start A Pandemic or I Went To Sundance And All I Got Was A Supernatural Virus
[That’s me in the video, running around with the phone. More, a hell of a lot more, on Turnstyle.]
