The Weekly Special Catch-up Extravaganza
A new design is in the works, along with a return to more regular and extensive blogging. Just so you know.
The Weekly for 17 October
The Weekly for 10 October
The Weekly for 19 September
The Weekly for 12 September
- Maurice Sendak hates God, Salman Rushdie, and cloying cartoons, not necessarily in that order. (Hat tip: Bookninja.)
- Is there a future for indie film?
- A defense of adverbs. (Hat tip: Alas, a blog.)
- Author Mike Heppner is publishing four novellas in different formats: the second as a super-small press product, and the fourth as a free digital download. One and three TBD.
- There's a film about the Eliot Ness and the Cleveland Torso Murders in the works, with Matt Damon signed on as Ness, and, more importantly, David Fincher signed on to direct. Since I'm a bit of true crime geek, and from NE Ohio, the Torso Murders are a topic I know far too much about, and am curious to see how Fincher spins this similarly unsolved case differently than the Zodiac.
- Ridiculous design rules: not all ridiculous, but a caution to never follow any rule off of a cliff is generally a good thing.
The Weekly for 5 September
The Weekly for 28 August 2008
The Weekly for 18 July
- I love Tilda Swinton for many reasons, and the fact that she just founded a film festival that charges baked goods as admission and asks guests to sit on beanbags during the films is just one more reason to add to the list.
- Retro Wall-E Prints - I missed a small chunk of this movie due to a certain toddler jumping from seat to seat, but what I saw was magnificent.
- Jane Austen and Boredom - Just to clarify, this is a paper about boredom in the works of Austen, not possible boredom caused by Austen's novels. Also to clarify, I am not bored by Austen in the slightest, but I would like to distance myself from the type of Austen fan that generally sees no farther than Colin Firth.
- Ten Best Neo-Noir Films, from AMC.
- Pamie's 'Open Letter to My Cat' - "Are we currently starring in some kind of romantic comedy together?"
- Drive-In Movies: A Primer. From GreenCine.
The Weekly for 16 May
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The Weekly for 9 May
- Help Me Obi Mom: Five Ways to Grow a Fan Girl/Boy, from Pink Raygun.
- Shalom Auslander lifts a glass to (good) anger and reminds us that all capital-L Love gave us was Celine Dion.
- Why Chipotle Insists on Humanely Raised Meat. Well, excepting their beef - but, still, step in the right direction. I'm slowly making the switch to eating only meat from local, ethical farms and eating vegetarian when I can't verify where the meat comes from, but it is not that easy, especially when I'm simultaneously trying to put on extra weight. Also, the first Skepchick Chat (which I was unfortunately not able to attend) covers some of the same ground.
- Columbus's The Other Paper looks at Columbus bloggers and new media folk. Frankly, the author's tone seems a little condescending to me, but I'm just a blogger - what do I know about what "real people" think.
- 15 great examples of web typography.
- A 1958 audio interview with Dorothy Parker.
The Weekly for 11 April
- Is designing better on a Mac or PC? Designers, for a good reason, usually gravitate towards pretty Macs. But, in the end, it's just a tool, and it only works as well as you make it work. If a PC suits you, run with it. (Via David Airey.)
- Why dyslexics are good computer programmers. I'm not dyslexic (or a good computer programmer - maybe there's a connection?), but as someone interested in both language and computers, this is fascinating.
- A group of leading skeptics are putting together a TV pilot a la Mythbusters: The Skeptologists!
- Girl Power? A retrospective, feminist look at the Spice Girls.
- Since I mentioned Kim Peirce's new Iraq War film Stop/Loss, here's the Women and Hollywood blog's take on it. (Word on the internets is that the film's not that great.)
- A statistical analysis of Star Trek red-shirt deaths. This might be the geekiest thing I've ever seen. And that covers a lot of ground.
The Weekly for 7 March
- Girls and Legos - The CEO of Lego claims girls aren't into Legos as much as boys because boys are "genetically" predisposed to building things. Does that mean all those hours I spent building intricate Lego worlds (seriously, I did it well into high school, and they were awesome) marks me as genetically aberrant?
- New Book from Jack Kerouac - This is unnecessary. I will always have a sincere, romantic fixation on his work, but there has been so much of his stream-of-consciousness crap published since his death that I have a hard time believing this book will be at all worthwhile, even with Burroughs's contributions.
- NASA Needs To Be Cooler - Very well put. Part of modernizing their image needs to be encouraging more participation from women and minorities (get Uhura back on the job!). It makes me sad that such an exiting field is losing its luster.
- The Man She Forgot to Google! - Priceless.
- Oh, and In Case You Missed It ... - Neil Gaiman is now offering a free digital copy of his novel American Gods, a very great book, and it has also opened up some good discussions about free digital content on his blog.
- And in Related News ... - Trent Reznor released his new album with various download options, including some free, and made $750k in less than a week. Anyone from the record industry listening?
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