May 2009
Creepy-chan Revisited →
New Know Your Meme: Creepy-chan. “Anonymous is a better Tyra Banks than Tyra Banks.”
Bat For Batshit Crazy →
It’s music video day, I guess. There’s a new Bat For Lashes: “Pearl’s Dream.” Sadly, she’s turning into Tori Amos much too quickly.
Walking on the Moon →
My favorite part of the new video for The-Dream’s “Walking on the Moon” (directed by Hype Williams) is not the strange recreations of the Millennium Falcon. It’s when Kanye teleports onto the holodeck with the confused Barbarella supermodel.
Dream project: Matthew Barney / Lady GaGa collaboration.
Story idea: who exactly are cab drivers talking to all the endless hours they chat away in foreign languages?
Alexa Chung →
I queried an editor at a major magazine recently about whether they’d be interested in a profile of Alexa Chung. “Who’s that?” he wrote back. If you don’t know, you’re about to, whether you like it or not — MTV is hoping she’s the next big thing. Caroline has some of the details about how the show will integrate Facebook and Twitter. See also: Is...
Galifianakis →
Good choice: big Zach Galifianakis profile in this weekend’s NYT Mag. There’s also a video: mock screen test.
PMware vs. Wave →
I’ve grown skeptical of most new collaborative communication tools. They always seem to suffer from an inherent problem: they feel like they were designed by project managers for project managers. (When I worked at Microsoft, I called this PMware. Microsoft is basically packed with PMware.) This use-case is, needles to say, quite limited. But I can see Google Wave spreading to a larger...
Fakes and Frauds →
The best thing you’re going to read on the internet for a while is Errol Morris’ seven-part series on frauds and fakes for NYTimes.com. Part 1 is about art forger Han van Meegeren; Part 2 is an…
Gray Lady Juice →
Forbes has a decent little story about what NYTimes.com is doing with advertising innovation. Three bullets: they have an in-hour creative advertising team, they are developing non-standard ad units, and they are going after brand advertising rather than direct response.
The Girlfriend Is Experienced →
Sasha Grey lists her five favorite films. 5) Herzog’s Stroszek, 4) Breillat’s Fat Girl, 3) Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou, 2) Cassavetes’ A Woman Under The Influence, 1) Carpenter’s Escape from New York.
Yipe.
Bad Bad Lieutenant →
Trailer to the Bad Lieutenant remake, originally starring Harvey Keitel but now featuring Nicholas Cage. [via]
You Can't Copyright That →
CanYouCopyrightATweet.com. Yes! No wait, I mean no! [via]
Mint →
Proceeding Heffernan’s column last week about Mint.com, a number of commenters voiced security concerns about the site. The CEO came back with a pretty interesting response about the level of security, which includes biometric access, video surveillance, “man-trap” doors, encryption, and other things straight outta Ocean’s Seventeen. But here’s something that’s...
Navify →
TechCrunch: “Have you ever been annoyed by the fact that Wikipedia has a wealth of textual information but no videos and hardly any pictures? […] This is where a new service called Navify comes in. Launched in public beta today, Navify intends to enrich Wikipedia by adding pictures, videos and user comments to each article.”
Banned Books →
Finally, something decent on Yahoo Answers: Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school? [via]
NewsQue →
Tucker Carlson is soon launching a conservative news site called NewsQue. He talks about it here. Update: not sure if this TheDailyCaller.com thing is the same thing or not.
Meme Scenery →
Meme Scenery. Waxy erases the figures from classic internet memes to reveal only the backdrops.
Superbrain →
NYT computer superbrain thing covers Singularity, Terminator Salvation, Ray Kurzweil, Kevin Kelly, Arthur C. Clarke, Google, Moore’s Law, and some other stuff.
The Infomercial →
On The Media: “It seems the lowly infomercial is finally enjoying its moment in the sun. So far this year it has garnered a book, a reality show and even a television documentary by CNBC.” Update: Inside, SABF plugs Pitchmen, which I haven’t seen yet.
Twitter TV →
Twitter is taking its worst quality — the quest for celebrity — and turning it into a tv show about “putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format.” [via]
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (19)
Pavement (19)
Pat Benatar (16)
The Rolling Stones (9)
The Zombies (9)
On Blipsters →
What comes around goes around and around and around? The Rise of the Black Hipster.
Just Numbers
Katrina Bowden (Cerie on 30 Rock) was born in 1988; Jane Krakowski (Jenna on 30 Rock) was born in 1968.
Fuck, I miss people like this. #Minneapolis
Oh goodie. Another blog!
An Audience of Creators →
Everyone’s quoting various parts of that Denton interview, but this was the surprising stat to me: “Nielsen research shows that nearly 34% of Gawker readers have their own blogs, a key influencer statistic. Gawker readers, it turns out, have their own audience.”
rins:
Yeah, I know you love her, but really – you dodged a doody bullet (bitch isn’t potty-trained!)
What Rina means by “bitch isn’t potty-trained” is that Rina, herself, is incapable of taking the puppy outside. Zuki does just fine, thankyouverymuch, if you TAKE HER OUT.
(Oh fuck, is this really a public squabble?)
Wired v. Wired.com →
I’m finally getting around to reading this post from Joel Johnson about Wired and Wired.com. I want to respond to nearly every single commenter, but I’ll instead just act paralyzed and mention some of the people who show up in the comments: Chris Anderson, Brian Lam, Sean Bonner, Gary Wolf, and Felix Salmon.
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If I’m not mistaken, there’s a picture of Katie Bakes on Look At That Hipster Fucking [NSFW! NSFW! NSFW!].
(Okay, not really.)
I've Seen Enough →
Interactive Cold War Kids video.
I Loopt You
For real cred, namecheck FourSquare next time.
