Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Tribeca Film Festival – Fighter
Yahoo was kind enough to provide me with a pass to the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday the 25th. Unfortunately client work got in the way of my ability to jet out of the office and rub elbows with anyone remotely famous at the activities during the day, but I did huff it across town [...]
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, USS Enterprise
Need we say more? A classic: Oh yes, saw him in Macbeth last night. A stunning performance.
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
“John” in Google
Brian Morrissey over at AdWeek was twittering the other day that searching for John in Google returns John Battelle’s blog over John Lennon…or the John the Baptist…or John McCain, and this shows just how much (too much) weight Google gives to blog traffic and links in its algorithm. To my knowledge this is not an [...]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
A weather controlled, dynamic music video ?
Yep…while listening to SomaFM’s Groove Salad today, I came across a song called “You Make Me Feel” by Mike Milosh. Great station, and great tune. Anyway, I hopped over to iTunes to listen to some previews of other songs on the Milosh album, started to read reviews, and one review referenced a dynamic video of [...]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Explosion of Digital Agencies in the US
This is a good piece about digital agencies in the US, written by Scott Goodson, the founder of Strawberry Frog. What I really like is how he positions Strawberry Frog as a ‘general contractor’ of great work. I like to think that we at Underscore endeavor to position ourselves in a similar way for media. [...]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
More Blu-ray stats than you can shake a disc at…
I’m not sure who developed this site, but it is chock full of stats about Blu-ray discs, sales, etc. And ooh, Step Into Liquid, one of the seminal movie/documentaries ever made on surfing, is coming out in Blu-ray!
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Talking Dirty for the Blind
Porn meets audiobooks in this latest mashup: Porn for the Blind, a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Mass., was established for the sole purpose of making the millions of free porn clips available online accessible to people with visual impairments.
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Two Interesting Articles from the World of Publishing
The first is from The New York Times: Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal – A copywriter starts a blog in January called Stuff White People Like and scarcely 3 months later Random House drops $300K (!!!!) to purchase the rights to the author’s first book. The second is from Springwise, a site that [...]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Stunning photos from last NASA mission
From the granddaughter who works at NASA of a friend of friend of a friend: http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Let Computers Compute. It’s the Age of the Right Brain
The following article in The New York Times reminds me of those days back in grade school where we’d be given a math test and asked to solve everything by hand when a calculator would slice the time necessary in half (or thirds, or fourths!) to complete the task. But now that computers can emulate [...]
