March 2011
59 posts
“I wanted to find something cheery for everyone on a Wednesday, so here it is.
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Rocking the Eye of Newt: Witch House - Sparrow Hall | THE SILVER THREAD
I am intrigwed…
(via jaybushman)
20 Seconds into following Jay and I’m already stoked. If you can be stoked on Witch House. Is that allowed? Dunno. But I am.
Fools For Love: Speed Dating For Nerds →
You’ll find the event at Meltdown tonight, but I’ve got your secret origin story right here:
“I noticed that there were lots of cool people hanging out after the Meltdown show. I would look at them and think ‘Why aren’t those two smooching?’ I think nerds have a hard time breaking through that wall. They are genuinely polite people.”
Check out the rest of my interview with Ed...
Dragon Age Writer On Characters’ Bisexuality |... →
And if there is any doubt why such an opinion might be met with hostility, it has to do with privilege. You can write it off as “political correctness” if you wish, but the truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. They’re so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance. They don’t see anything wrong with having things set up to suit them, what’s...
In Prison for Taking A Liar Loan--- NYTimes →
Mr. Engle’s is a tale worth telling for a number of reasons, not the least of which is its punch line. Was Mr. Engle convicted of running a crooked subprime company? Was he a mortgage broker who trafficked in predatory loans? A Wall Street huckster who sold toxic assets?
No. Charlie Engle wasn’t a seller of bad mortgages. He was a borrower. And the “mortgage fraud” for which he was prosecuted...
Studio Neat's New Kickstarter Is A Bold Move →
Studio Neat (Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt) are a pair of awesome product designers who made a big splash with their first Kickstarter project and are breaking the mold with their new one, a “pay-what-you-want” campaign for the “fat marker” style tablet stylus Cosmonaut.
I got to interview Dan for Turnstyle today:
Dan: Simply, we just wanted to try something new. We had...
A Note to Our Readers on the Times Pay Model and... →
Collectively, just eight of the 260 organizations accounted for more than half the citations for reporting. These consist of four wire services (two of which concentrate on financial news), two television networks (the BBC and CNN), and two newspapers, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, one of which already charges for digital access.
Nate Silver on the paywall.
Kill Bill
OK LA kids! Who wants to come with me to the New Beverly and see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair this weekend?
Douglas Rushkoff's new social media conference -... →
Douglas Rushkoff is setting up a social media “anti-conference” this October in NYC:
The Internet was prefigured not by Wired but by BoingBoing and Mondo2000. The net revolution is happening on the streets of Cairo, not the Facebook page of PepsiCorp. And social networking is less a tool for kids to agree upon a brand of sport shoe than the unemployed workers of Cleveland to...
Firefox 4 - Creative Commons →
Congratulations and thank you to everyone at Mozilla and everyone who benefits from Mozilla’s work — that means all 2 billion people who currently have access to the net, and hopefully soon the 5 billion people who do not yet have access — understand why any barrier to participation is a barrier too high.
Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons celebrates the release of Firefox 4 by focusing on...
Why the Quick Bar ("dickbar") is still so... →
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Marco Arment on the latest ridiculous addition to the official Twitter client for iPhone:
It’s a news ticker limited to one-word items, lacking any context, broadcasting mostly topics that I don’t understand, recognize, or care about. It’s nonsensical. At worst, it can offend. At best, it…
Twitter is struggling hard to define itself and its value to society. It’s a...
Bret Easton Ellis: Notes on Charlie Sheen and the... →
Being publicly mocked is part of the game now and you’re a fool if you don’t play along with it and are still enacting the role of humble, grateful celebrity instead of embracing your fucked-up-ness. Gaga’s little monsters, anyone? Not showing up to collect your award at the Razzies for that piece of shit you made? So Empire.
Two things: First, how long has Easton Ellis been on this...
Alchemy and the Entropy of Being →
Shared by Noah J.
Mark Teppo is a sharp darkling geek. If I can help make the world a better place for guys like him, I’ll be doing something right.
Alchemical research, both metaphysical and…
Daring Fireball: The Evolution of SXSW Interactive →
Used to be that SXSW was an interesting conference and a great weekend experience. Now it’s a terrible conference and a good-but-crowded weekend experience. Maybe 25,000 attendees can’t be wrong, and I’m just a curmudgeon yearning for the days of old. There’s no denying that the ACC was packed with people every day. But everyone I know either (a) attended only a handful of sessions; (b) went to...
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Underground Mash-Up: McBusters' Myke Chilian
I got to interview Myke Chilian* about his Channel 101 hit McBusters- a wholly original animated mash-up of McDonaldland and Ghostbusters. We talked about how the show came together, and why he poured so much blood and sweat into a project that he legally can’t make a dime off of.
*That’s Chancellor Manslaughter to you Tumblrites.
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Comic Alchemy: Jimmy Wong Responds to "Asians in...
YouTuber Jimmy Wong (brother of the prolific Freddiew) struck back at the “Asians in the Library” rant with a glorious satirical love song. I interviewed him for TurnStyle:
I knew all along that if I was to write a song, it would have to include the words Ching Chong Ling Long Ting Tong as the chorus. I think we can agree it was the natural highlight of Alexandra’s original rant.
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Robert Reich: Safety on the Cheap →
robertreich:
Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only — to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?
The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO’s Fukushima…
Politicians of all stripes tend to live in Platonic Ideal Utopias. What stuns me...
On The Future Of Books
I want to like digital book readers, but I have a problem. I’m a bibliophile. I love the look, the touch, even the smell of books. As I get older I’m not as in to lugging hardbacks around, but I do it. (Currently reading Jane McGonigal’s Reality Is Broken.)
What I want is to have both the asthetic, sensual experience of physical books and the convenience of a digital reader. Or...
I’m at Cafe Figaro (Los Angeles, CA)
“Getting ready to brunch it up in one of my favorite rooms, and catch up with one of my favorite people”
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Life is a fragile thing. We all have that teenage swagger in us that allows us to forget this. It’s a survival instinct.
There’s another survival instinct. It comes out in the face of terrible disasters. The drive that recognizes the self in other.
In the days to come we’re going to be reaching into that instinct. Japan will need us, just as Haiti and Indonesia did before.
I only wish...
Stephen King takes on the Tea Party
Via Dangerous Minds.
I would've...
just hit “like” on that last quote, but I can bring myself to push a little heart button for something that fills me with rage.
“We should read it first, but we won’t.”
– Wisconsin Assembly Leader Jeff Fitzgerald prior to closing debate and passing the Budget Repair Bill Union Busting Bill
(h/t Dane101)
Robert Reich: The Principles of the People's Party →
Reposting in full, because my heart, soul, and rage is in Madison tonight.
robertreich:
The following was sent to me by someone in Madison, Wisconsin, who found it in the Capitol building last week. It was obviously written in a hurry, and it carries the label “first draft.”
It’s emerging from the heartland – from Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa — and it is spreading across the...
Alien Life Found →
Looks legit this time (not like that Mono Lake BS from last year).
