May 29, 2007
Quick Stop Entertainment interviews Berkeley Breathed (Pretty much linking all Ken Plume interviews, ever.)
May 28, 2007
Searchblog: 'IAB: Ad Spend up 35% in 2006' (Keyword search and lead generation are blasting up.)
Google Sightseeing: 'Angelina Jolie’s Geocache Tattoo' (Very now.)
The Beat: 'Happy 100th Birthday, Hergé' (Tintin is one of the touchstones of my youth.)
May 27, 2007
Scratchskunk - 'Girafa' (I also see the bug-eyed giraffe everywhere on the way to work on Caltrain. Blimey.)
Technorati on the new search changes (I found useful because of the basic blog search I didn't know about.)
Prelinger Library: 'More from Moscow' ('From Moscow to Yalta and Leningrad, undated guidebooks that I'm going to guess were printed for visitors to the 1980 Moscow Olympics.')
Shots Ring Out: 'Icky Thump - The White Stripes (The Malloys)' (Cataract-inducing rawk and roll fun!)
May 25, 2007
Idiot Toys: 'Three new kinds of dog revealed at Hong Kong Canine Innovation Expo 2007' (Just awesome.)
May 23, 2007
NY Times: 'A Dot-Com City Comes Back After the Collapse' (I like living in San Jose.)
New @ Monotonik: 'Chromatic Flights - 'Memories From The Audible Color Wheel' [mtk184]' (Sunny Florida CC-licensed indietronica @ my net.label.)
Upcoming: 'RiffTrax Live with Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy' (Mm, Memorial day treat! We're going, yay.)
May 22, 2007
Quick Stop: 'Interview: Trace Beaulieu' (MST3K for ever, really.)
Improbable Research: “How to Write Consistently Boring Scientific Literature” (V. useful!)
May 21, 2007
The Beat: 'The Wedding of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie' (Aha, the threatened pictures appear!)
Twitch reviews Anton Corbijn's Ian Curtis biopic, 'Control' @ Cannes (Looks darkly, appropriately promising.)
TVGasm: 'Larry David meets Hannah Montana' ('Larry plays himself in a restaurant scene. He's with his real-life daughters, Cazzie and Romy, and can't get a table despite his fame.')
CrowdedHouse.com - new single, 'Don't Stop Now' (Crowded House should never stop - with guest Johnny Marr appearance! - via Stereogum.)
May 20, 2007
B3ta: 'The K Team' (And there's more - difficult to get bored of the b3ta kitten meme, when crossed with George Peppard.)
Cartoon Brew: 'CalArts Teaches The Fine Art of MoCap' (Actually kinda insulting to decent CG animation, but hey, it's 'irreverent'.)
Music Thing: 'Handmade USB-powered felt-covered calculator synth' (Hell, yes.)
Regret The Error on a spellcheck-crazed Reuters gaffe ('A recent post notes the news service mistakenly called the Muttahida Quami Movement the "Muttonhead Quail Movement."')
May 19, 2007
Slashfilm: 'Jerry Seinfeld’s Fully Animated Bee Movie Movie Trailer' (Looks... reasonable! Via Cartoonbrew.)
USA Today: 'Digging the baby carrot' (Actually very old, but I DID NOT KNOW THIS - via Jinjur.)
Prelinger Library: 'Prelinger Library in Harper's (more)' (Awesome article on an awesome library.)
Videos.antville: 'The Bees "Listening Man" (dir. Dominic Leung)' (Totally adorable video from sunny UK band.)
May 15, 2007
Music Thing: 'Tiny Music: Cologne Airport has a song' (It '...started out as a five second chime, played 200 times a day at the airport, and heard by 22 million people since 2003.')
AP: The best headline ever (As Linkbunnies/Hammersley point out - wonder who wrote it, the correspondent or someone else? I've seen varying AP headlines for the same story before, I think. Maybe.)
Neil Gaiman describes Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's wedding (Pics of blue bowler hat soon, plz!)
May 14, 2007
Fantagraphics blog: 'Drinky Crow Show: watch now, watch later' (Adult Swim continues to rule the roost.)
Cartoon Brew: 'Classic LA Cartoonist Photos' ('5,100 hi-res images from the archives of the LA Times and the original Los Angeles Daily News'. Awesome!)
b3ta: 'I have devised an intelligence test for my postman...' (Clever, clever!)
Wired.com Multimedia: 'Doggie Style: Cell Phones, Webcams and GPS for Hounds' (RESCUE DACHSHUND!)
May 13, 2007
Arthur: 'MAGIC IS AFOOT: A Conversation with ALAN MOORE about the Arts and the Occult' ('I think that artists have been sold down the river'. Via Mastrapa!)
Digital Chosunibo: 'Fanzine Reveals Inner Workings of Korean Soaps' ('Here are its seven iron rules of Korean soaps.')
Prelinger Library unearths, digitizes WPA travel guides (PD guides to America from the '30s, now available in PDF - awesome.)
Netflix 'Watch Now' recommendation: BBC's 'Rough Science' (One of the few streaming TV shows on Netflix, shown on PBS in the U.S., scientists using skills to find gold - v.neat!)
May 09, 2007
Lore Sjoberg's latest 'Video Rating' (I didn't know he did these. I really like his voice! It's Orson Welles-y!)
May 07, 2007
Microcinema International: 'Ithaca Ambient Festival' (More ambient festivals, plz!)
'Hear It Wow' obscure music blog ('A weekly program of unusual audio presented on WMFO, 91.5 FM, Medford.' The 365 Days Project II also meanders along similar lines.)
May 06, 2007
Gamasutra: 'Halo Science 101' (The Battlestar Galactica science advisor works out the physics of Halo.)
GSW: 'Gamasutra Wins 2nd Consecutive Webby Award' (Wow, completely awesome.)