Everything is Everything

I had the privelege of attending a screening yesterday of All The Presidents’ Men followed by a panel with Robert Redford, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein. The movie was powerful and subtle as always, and watching the three of them converse as old friends added another dimension to my enjoyment of the film. The conversation…

Michael Pollan wrote a great op-ed on the “elephant in the room” of our food supply in the healthcare debate and the prospect that forcing insurance companies to accept those with pre-existing conditions might make them very powerful allies in the fight against obesity. A quick glance at Joe Wilson’s Wikipedia entry reveals that “you…

For the optics nerds out there: The upcoming release of Avatar got me researching the competing 3D technologies currently in use to project 3D films. I was so impressed with the quality and color of Coraline, and now I see why – this stuff’s advanced! Come and follow me on a guided tour through Wikipedia……

A diamond to Barney: A coal to the Harvard Crimson. God damn…that’s disgraceful to publish an ad in favor of Holocaust Denial. And I missed this one: KerrangYou know the “Kerrang!” of a guitar chord that launches “A Hard Day’s Night”? Turns out it was a mystery that needed solving. Writes Eliot Van Buskirk, “Guitarists…

The Rhode Island Film Festival posted an interview I gave about my film. It’s a preview of the plot, explained in an (endearingly?) rambling fashion. What happened to all the lessons I learned from my Speech and Debate teacher?? It’s filmed by Kieran Delaney, who I got to know that day and is an excellent…

Digital Democracy, an organization I work for, has entered a competition to win a grant on 3Banana. I’d love if you could go on 3Banana’s site, read up on DD, and post a comment! The entry with the most comments wins. Also you can sign in with your gmail account, so it should be a…

It turns out that when you upload something from an iPhone on Pixelpipe, it will post it everywhere even if the upload fails. I had about 5 copies of the same videos, some of them not working at all. Here’s all of the videos in one post. I’ll be putting up flickr albums with all…

I leave in a few hours for a trip to Greece, Bulgaria, and Italy. I may be posting oncer or twice, but I will be primarily video blogging when I have the chance! With a jailbroken iPhone, cycorder, and pixelpipe, I will be able to upload videos as soon as they are taken and they…

Liz at Digital Democracy recently turned me on to the Wordle. They have posted on their wall these awesome word clouds looking much like the ones below. Wordle.com takes any text you feed it and makes one of these. The size of the words is determined by how often the word appears, so more salient…

Sometimes I have the urge to do things that make me seem like I’m a virus. Write my friends cryptic emails with tinyurl links, put junk comments in blogs. Ever heard of the Reverse Turing Test? Other times my mind wanders to what would be the least appropriate thing to do in a situation, and…