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Reflecting back on Gala Bruno
What it means to be a college graduate. Almost a year ago, I gave a speech at the Los Angeles Brown Alumni kickoff event, Gala Bruno. I was just out of college and overwhelmed by the new uncertainty of being suddenly unattached. I tried to convey this experience and sum up what made my experiences…
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Mashup party invite
As a late housewarming, our apartment is having a party on August 1. I’ve introduced the rest of my housemates to the mashup craze after getting ever more obsessed myself, so we decided to make a mashup-themed party. This will be complete with mashup music, mashup video, mashup clothing, and of course, mashup drinks. If…
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Desperately seeking a yearly clock
I’ve been scouring the internet for this everywhere, and I’ve concluded it’s not being sold. I’m looking for a large clock (about two feet or more in diameter) that ticks once a day and goes in a circle once a year. It would have watercolor paintings of the four seasons in each quadrant. Rather than…
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Will You Be There
Rest in peace, MJ. You leave a legacy as weird as you ever were! I have no idea how I feel right now, but it’s a huge shock. Hold me Like the river Jordan And I will then say to thee You are my friend Carry me Like you are my brother Love me like…
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Firefox ftw and I never even noticed. (EDIT: maybe not…)
Back when Mozilla Firefox was first gaining popularity, I used to check W3Schools’ browser usage chart, which breaks down browser marketshare as reported by a number of websites. I kept hoping impatiently that Firefox would overtake Internet Explorer. Well I just checked tonight and, as it turns out, this occurred around January, 2009. (It’s hard…
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Showbizzle: off the hizzle
Breaking into showbiz is hard, and Janie’s no stranger to that process! She’s got tons of friends who are trying to make it big, and they pour their hearts out to her a coffee shop while she does her writing. That’s the premise of Showbizzle, a web series launched by my friend Lindsey Rosin and…
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Derrida and banana bread
I noticed this sign at Film Forum in New York. What an endorsement!! To understand it fully, though, we will have to dig deeply…
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Embryo Adoption??
The front page article of this week’s Village Voice discusses a new niche sect of the Pro-Life movement that seeks to rebrand a frozen embryo as a child with human rights, and the process of in-vitro fertilization as “adoption.” It’s a fascinating read. From Village Voice: Since 1997, a small but growing arm of the…
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John Hodgman roasts Obama
Witty as usual, Hodgman tries to determine if Obama is a nerd as he seems, or (gasp!) actually a jock in disguise.
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The Turmoil in the Industry: Part Three
(this is a long article and internet people have no attention span. skip to the bottom if you want to know how it ends!) In the last two posts I have covered the challenges facing our industry – financing its films when the distribution model is defunct, monetizing the Internet where users expect to pay…