March 2010
10 posts
So die a little longer
I’m having a Douglas Coupland Moment. Bear with me.
This is a new Verizon commercial. It’s been airing on Hulu (and presumably on television sets).
This is a clever commercial. There have been countless thousands of ads that have pilloried old movies and music and cultural memes, but the only other example of a commercial aping a commercial that I can recall is the Energizer...
rstevens:
mckelvie:
T. Roosevelt: The Square Deal F. Roosevelt: The New Deal H. Truman: The Fair Deal B. Obama: The Big Fucking Deal
…works for me.
-Jamais Cascio.
“The majority of developers will tell you that they’ve never needed math...”
– Alan Skorkin. I’ve been thinking about doing a remedial adult mathematics course for a while now.
“‘Hipster’ has become the de-facto fallback Big Other for culturally conscious...”
– Matt Langer (via Weselec) (via nickdouglas)
Ebert Part 2
Roger Ebert’s second act as a Twitter superstar and Internet luminary has been enormously gratifying to witness.
I first realized that Ebert was more than a simple critic when I watched Dark City on DVD with his commentary track turned on. It was already one of my favorite movies in years; his insights took it to the next level.
Apparently Murdock lives in room 614 because the...
Valve news
…We tried to have a conversation with Apple for several years, and they never seemed to… well, we have this pattern with Apple, where we meet with them, people there go “wow, gaming is incredibly important, we should do something with gaming”. And then we’ll say, “OK, here are three things you could do to make that better”, and then they say OK, and then...
“remind you that Aperture Science is built on three pillars. Pillar one: Science without results is just witchcraft. Pillar two: Get results or you’re fired. Pillar three: if you suspect a coworker of bin’ a witch, report them immediately. I cannot stress that enough. Witchcraft will not be tolerated.”
“… Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not. You...