June 2009
May 2009
Moving on from UTA
I’m going to break one of my own rules for a second here…
The Truth So yes. To answer all the phone calls, texts, and DMs that I’ve been (semi)ducking: as of today, I’m leaving United Talent Agency to open my own company dedicated to digital media projects. Put more plainly: during the greatest recession in decades, and in a time when unemployment is skyrocketing, I chose to...
AT&T Plans Network Upgrade to Delivery Faster 3G... →
clintus:
I think its too little too late honstly. Check out my comment on the post for my full opinion.
So the first gen iPhone user contracts are up right as Sprint comes out with a new shiny competitor in the Pre? Were I them, I would harp on the network issue.
Couple that with the 18 new Android phones coming by end of year, and we’ve got an interesting landscape.
I, for one, welcome...
My cat is an old man
ladimcbeth:
He just curled up on the back of the sofa and made this groaning sound exactly like little old men do when they’re settling into a chair. It was adorable. Adorable little old man cat.
Awwww, our old man cat is the best cat ever.
Joystiq Hands-on: Heavy Rain →
I really don’t have the words to describe how much I’m looking forward to this game. From everything I’ve seen and read it’s really a breakthrough in terms of using gaming as both a storytelling and an art form.
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter. Going to bed at...”
– As quoted by Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter.
“We interrupt your regularly scheduled productivity for a quick note on an...”
– Adam Pash, Lifehacker
I think some ad sales people are missing a part of their brain that allows them self-awareness.
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Uh Oh.
Techdirt analyzes Sony Pictures CEO Michael... →
A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period. Plenty of online sites (including ours) took him to task for that, wondering how one gets to be the CEO of a major content company without understanding the internet. Today, Lynton hit back at critics — not by saying he was quoted out of context or...
Twitter Guys: We’ll Still Be Running This Company... →
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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve...”
– H.L. Mencken
Well it’s good to know that despite lipservice to separation, “religious freedom” means the right to impose one’s own religion onto others.
"We don't need no education," chanted the...
Between the work I’ve gotten done all morning/afternoon, actually getting off my ass and going running today, and successfully putting out the fire I started in the kitchen earlier, I’d call this a pretty good day.
After you finish scanning this post, you'll have...
CA Supreme Court to rule on Prop 8 on TUESDAY →
kara:
notthatkindagay:
Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend because when it’s over the California Supreme Court will issue its ruling on Tuesday, May 26, at 10am pacific time on the constitutionality of Prop 8.
This is the kind of watershed moment that lets us know whether or not we’re advancing and evolving as a nation, as a society and as a civilization.
On Trying
chriscantwell:
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your...
There are things on the internet that make you... →
nudawn:
frangry:
Helen Keller’s Twitter is one of those things.
OH…MY…FUCKING…GOD.
I’m ashamed at the fact that I just laughed until I literally cried.
...Does not make you a photographer. (but it kind...
walpaper:
nudawn:
fromthefoyer:
And I am certainly no photographer. I’m just some asshole with a decent digital SLR and an iphone who prefers taking pics with the iphone most of the time anyways, so what do I know about photography, right?
But here’s the thing….I might not know a ton about photography, but I know TOMES UPON TOMES about music, and this fucking REEKS of 1975.
“Progressive”...
Cold Brewed Coffee using a French Press →
ericmortensen:
jacobjoaquin:
“Luckily it eventually dawned on me that cold brewing coffee doesn’t required special tools. The real magic is in letting the coffee and water sit together. The Toddy’s real strength was in making it easy to strain a lot of coffee. While pondering this I realized that the French press was also good at straining coffee grounds, and I set off on a path of discovery.”
...
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
6od:
outofprint:
I just saw GQ’s feature on Rumsfeld’s cover sheets to Iraq War reports that mix bible quotations with Iraq-related imagery. This was disturbing to me, as I assume it was disturbing to many who saw it. The problem is that to many people, there’s nothing wrong with this. Many Americans staunchly believe America is a Christian nation and bible quotes aren’t out of place in...
Hey West LA people! Bloom q&a at the 4:50pm show... →
brothersbloom:
C’mon down…
I’ll be there with Ladimcbeth for the 7:30 showing, get tix while they’re still available!
So Maybe The Slackers Had It Right After All →
We moved to San Francisco and Brooklyn and Mission Hill. We jumped from job to job. Put off marriage. Never bought a place. And we never heard the end of it. We were drifters, they said. Layabouts. No respect for work and real estate or the value of a good pair of cufflinks.
…
But in retrospect, it’s clear that we did something right. We lived a smaller life, a life we could...
Is Obama Changing Anti-Intellectualism in America? →
I certainly hope so. There is literally nothing more dangerous to our future as a nation and frankly our future as a species than the idea that somehow intelligence and intellectual curiosity are things to be avoided and/or shunned.
“So it was okay to waterboard a guy over 80 times, but God forbid the guy who...”
– Jon Stewart on the varying lines of ethics currently deemployed.
“I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet. Period....”
– Michael Lynton, CEO Sony Pictures Entertainment - WWD.com
(facepalm.)
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Watchkenyatta:
The Dina Kaplan Embeddable Widget 1.0
Thanks to the incredibly advanced technology developed in-house here at blip.tv, you can embed your very own Dina Kaplan on your web site or blog.
Now everyone who visits your blog or web site will know that you are on the cutting edge of web video.
Note that the Dina Kaplan Embeddable Widget cannot be paused or muted. This is intentional and...
ladimcbeth:
Red wine and Girl Talk may be an unfortunate confluence. It leads to me singing the lyrics “Yo, I love having sex but I’d rather get some head” while shaking my ass in my chair. This could be construed as unprofessional behavior….
Has it occured to you that Pinky is actually...
ronenreblogs:
ronen-v:
If he alone existed, he would be by far the smartest mouse who ever lived.
Let this be a lesson to you: choose your companions well, for they may be your downfall.
So this Tumblr thing. Apparently gonna be big.
Just took a survey.
If Douglas Adams were still alive, he would fucking love Twitter.
British inmate must deny rape to live →
A British woman being held in a Laos jail has been told she will face the firing squad unless she denies she was raped in prison.
A Laos government spokesman appeared defensive when asked who fathered the baby, the newspaper reported.
“It is a mystery — maybe it is a baby from the sky,” the spokesman, Kenthong Nuanthasing, said.
I wish I could think of something more intelligent...
Molecule of life emerges from laboratory slime -... →
Two essential elements of RNA have finally been made from scratch, under conditions similar to those that likely prevailed during the dawn of life.