September 2010
20 posts
Why does video never effing work right in Tumblr →
<3 Peggy Olson Perfection right down to the bit where she loses it in the ladies room rather than cry tears of anger & frustration in front of Don Draper.
Broadcast Assassin: Online Resources for Webseries... →
These are starting points; this list is not intended to be all-inclusive. Plus, I’m sure there’s stuff I forgot. Please reblog and add to this list! Webseries news/reviews blogs: Tubefilter http://tubefilter.tv NewTeeVee http://newteevee.com Web Series Today …
Watchlkm:
John Cleese on creativity
“There’s a tendency amongst liberals to give rich right wingers too much credit,...”
– pandagon.net - it’s the eye of the panda, it’s the thrill of the bite (via lkm)
I’m still bummed that Scott Wilson turned down playing Conrad Hilton on Mad Men, but I wouldn’t cannonize either Conrad or Paris (though Conrad’s done a lot more to educate people in the hotel...
“They said they’d pay me $320 a day – and I thought, ‘Hey, I’d have done it for...”
– Danny Trejo, on his first job in film (via ericmortensen)
The way things are going with the actors unions y’all might think $50 a day is like $50 million…really sad
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“You don’t realize that when you make something and give it to people, it becomes...”
– Joe Wilson, writer/director of Vampire Mob (via ericmortensen)
Joe won over one of my fellow superfans by casting one of her fandom’s favorite actresses (& people) in his webseries. And then she mobilized me. And it’s all grassroots real following for his show. <3
“Since 1891, when [Thomas Edison] filed his first patent on a motion picture...”
– Thomas Edison’s plot to hijack the movie industry (via lkm)
Same as it ever was…
“* 26% of Americans feel they can’t handle/overwhelmed by the number of emails...”
– Email Overload Means We’re Never Not Working
For the last three nights (or four, I guess, counting today), I have basically forgone my social life, gone straight home after work, and just kept emailing and doing things. It’s been kind of awesome - and my inbox has been under 30 emails for four days...
Writer of the Happy Days "Jump the Shark" episode... →
(via jamesurbaniak)
I don’t think Henry Winkler made up the idea of waterskiing over a shark (he’s a way better actor & smarter guy than that).
“Michael Geist writes in with the latest news on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade...”
– Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty: US trying to cram DRM rules down the world’s throats - Boing Boing (via lkm)
I’m the attorney she-bitch who asked one of the guys from the US Copyright Office how I should advise clients to stay within the law ACTA is supposed to be if I...
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Ars Technica: Did Internet founders foresee future... →
“We wanted to have a common protocol and a common address space so that you couldn’t tell, to first order, that you were actually talking through all these different kinds of nets,” recalled Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf.
This was Vint Cerf the academic & innovator not Vint Cerf the paid toadie of Google
“AT&T’s projection of the RFC authors’ intent is...
“The German Pirate Party has disclosed some secret documents on how the EU is...”
– Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party (via lkm)
Heh they shoot down ACTA but want to monitor people…so much for my plans to be an expatriate (unless I can find a way to live on another planet)
MediaPost: California Law to Ban Online... →
Besides being potentially unconstitutional (I can make free speech & freedom of assembly arguments against it) I think this approach might be impractical. But at least California sees there are problems with epersonators (the ones meant to scam people not the ones for funning around)