August 2010
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Being Pavarotti →
headphonesnotrequired:
I’m watching this great episode of Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange right now about self-taught 13-year-old opera singers in South Africa. It’s pretty amazing.
Bron’s getting a crash course into Megan’s I LOVE PBS AND PUBLIC ACCESS CABLE!!! lifestyle.
I got rid of Time Warner almost a year ago. My parents got me a HD receiver when they stayed with me...
“The last time I went for a haircut — a rare occurrence as I don’t have much up...”
– You don’t want to be Todd Martens: I’m pretty sure her dogs would have totally dug me …
Cat & dog owners, experience-life-through-music peeps, and daters should all follow Todd. Now.
July 2010
Cheapest flight to space yet is still a whopping... →
spytap:
(via arielwaldman)
Let’s not be too unrealistic in our expectations here. Yes, it costs almost a hundred grand because it’s going to space. 49 years ago (yes, human spaceflight still hasn’t even hit the 50 year mark) it cost several billion dollars and a nation to get into space. Almost 50 years later, only three nations have done it. Now, for less than the cost of the average...
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Experienced bartender available for *all* service...
No, seriously, get your mind out of the gutter.
Rent your own mixologist for parties! Don’t want to open your own PBR? Hire Mike, an excellent bartender who needs a gig or two.
Mike has a decade (plus) of experience in crafting shots, cocktails, smoothies, and other delectable drinkables. Perfect for theme parties AND black tie events, Mike’s versatile, scalable, and trustable....
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Aren’t new sheets just amazing?
It’s better to have failed big than to never have tried at all, right?
“Sounds pretty eccentric, doesn’t it? It always will when you’re...”
– The Acceleration of Addictiveness
For Amanda
Mason grew up in Compton and joined the LAPD 22 years ago “because I wanted the community to see somebody who looks like them,” she told me. “Somebody who gets the slang, the body language … who understands the attitudes.”
She understood the conflict her young caller felt when he wrestled with “snitching” on a friend. She reminded him that “silence is not...
“As it extends into the eastern hemisphere, it is technically both the...”
– Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alaska’s fucking with the time/space continuum you guys.
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Can Kanye Call This A Comeback? →
maura:
This week’s Pop Off segment.
Awesome article & great music to kickstart the day!
“If I have a point here (other than my seeming one, which is to depress the hell...”
– Family, friends, health, work: Pick three | communicatrix
A truism for any industry.
It’s easy for relationships to flourish when everything is going smoothly. The true test comes when a film tanks. Studios often blame the filmmaker while filmmakers often blame the studio’s marketing efforts. So the real test of Warners’ belief in its filmmakers doesn’t come so much with Nolan, who has something of a Midas touch, but with a filmmaker like Soderbergh, who...
“What is clear is that AT&T’s role will always be that of parsimonious...”
– Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown | Magazine
Fascinating take on two industries spiraling further away from each other and further away from where they started, quarter by quarter.
“If you work with garbage, you will get dirty.”
– Concern for Those Who Screen the Web for Barbarity - NYTimes.com
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“5. When you take your Flickr photos, YouTube videos and blog posts seriously as...”
– 10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
I am feeling this today! Thx, Calinative!
“He was annoyed. Her buying wine meant that she definitely intended to get drunk...”
– (via nicolevotta)
This is the official NV, y’all (I checked). No substitutes accepted.
So it’s Friday.
In theory I have early closure hours to use today except last week I only managed to use 15 minutes and in general it’s eye-rolling to clock in and out for a job where I am always, always, always digitally representing our brand. The only time I haven’t at least casually monitored all of our social sites was when I went to Vancouver for the Olympics, and that...
“Why should we care if a majority of critics like or dislike a film? Who are...”
– Inception: Block those reviews! - scanners
I love Jim Emerson right now.
(no spoilers for Inception in the article, btw, just an examination of pre-release critic realpolitik)
Not to go on about this, but here's part of an...
I do think it looks like a good movie, I’m just wary of all the people who are going to become interested (and who will think they’re knowledgeable) in social networking/media as an industry – I mean, after the DaVinci Code came out my brother started wanting to smack people who felt they knew something about museum culture and medieval art. This has the same level of truth to it, y’know? A movie...
Watchmarc:
danhacker:
The full theatrical trailer for David Fincher’s Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’
Sony Pictures has finally released the full trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming Facebook film ‘The Social Network’ on Yahoomovies. No more audio only teaser trailers. This is easily one of the best trailers I’ve seen all year, and ‘The Social Network’ looks like it could be one of David...
“DON’T TRUST INTERNET WINOS!”
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“The difference is that while Jim Carrey or Paul Simon or Jim Belushi created...”
– Self-quoting alert, from What I Learned at VidCon: It’s All About Connection
(There’s also a bit in there about how I was in love with David Duchovny during high school. If that sort of thing interests you.)(via lizlet)
Have I mentioned how awesome Liz is?
“In an age where Twitter and Google seem to be taking over the world, how do...”
– The Power of Story in the Digital Age < PopMatters
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I’m a joke that you’d probably enjoy.
“It’s like living in some weird-ass twilight zone where “Well that’s just like,...”
– The Tea Party is “Patriotic™” in the same way that “Cheez™” is a dairy product.
Barrett’s back! Time to rejoice (by reading the entire post)!