December 2009
53 posts
The complications of the extensively collaborative nature of television...
– An understatement by Martha Nochimson in The Passion of David Lynch
As I think about the current Facebook craze and the notion of it as an...
– Chris Anderson, The Long Tail Blog
Out of the hundreds of thousands of years Homo sapiens has existed, we’ve been...
– TV’s Unintended Consequences by Dave Munger
jackcheng:
A film by Charles and Ray Eames for Polaroid. Beautiful in a million different ways. I could watch this over and over again.
Notice that (pace: Andre 3000) there is no shaking going on.
Enough. A very short essay about chow mein, condemned men, and information gluttony that merlin wrote for Seth Godin’s What Matters Now project.
The Show with Ze Frank Episode 7-14-06
I reference this video every time I try to explain why Facebook is bad for the Internet.
This video and an analogy about Canadian hockey players that I haven’t been able to source. The gist is:
Canada has a lot of really good hockey players. Not because they are genetically predisposed to being good at hockey, but because they go out and play hockey...
Where money is concerned… hope is counterproductive.
– Michael Greenberg in Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
Oh, right, Jeff Mangum. “Sign The Dotted Line” from Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox
[T]he meaning of “reverence”… is the natural attitude to take toward...
– “All That” by David Foster Wallace
It is absolutely easy to say vinyl doesn’t make sense when you look at...
– “Vinyl Records and Turntables Are Gaining Sales” -