johnke.meGaming the system: On the rise of YouTube’s search-friendly “reply girls” »
I know, we all hate spammers. But you’ve got to admire their ingenuity and their grasp of human psychology.
Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche »
The WorldNetDaily geniuses are already suggesting he was assassinated. I’m glad this is the last insane story Breitbart will give them.
The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order »
If you’re someone who doesn’t give the Star Wars films a second thought, you have no idea how much thought us nerds put into the idea of what order we should make our kids watch them. This guy has perfected it.
I’d encourage you to read his whole post, but if you’re still all “TL;DR”? IV, V, II, III, VI. No Episode I at all.
Infovore » A Year of Links »
Tom Armitage:
I thought it would be interesting to produce a kind of personal encylopedia: each volume cataloguing the links for a whole year. Given I first used Delicious in 2004, that makes for eight books to date.
Beautifully done.
The 8 Most Opulent Gifts in the Oscar Swag Bags »
Each gift bag was worth about $60,000. And these got handed out to all the nominees. Reminds me of that line from Withnail & I - Free to those that can afford it. Very expensive to those that can’t.
Feltron Biennial Report »
Nicholas Felton has released the latest version of his “annual reports” - a collection of all the data that makes up his life. As someone who has trouble keeping track of the movies he’s watched, I’m very jealous of his ability to consistently keep track of this stuff.
After the internet design community started spooging over these things a few years ago, he set up daytum, a website to help people collect these various discrete bits of information and to present them in a “Feltron Annual Report” kind of way. And yet according to the “about” page of the report, (and even according to his account page on daytum), he doesn’t use it himself. I dunno, I just found that interesting.
The myth of the eight-hour sleep »
Scientists are arguing that the 8-hour sleep is unnatural, and that humans naturally fall into a more segmented sleep cycle. In other words, I should be treating every day like I treat Sunday, with a pre-sleep nap.
Fountain - A Markup Language for Screenwriting »
Back when we announced FDX Reader, I got a lot of emails asking, ‘When are you going to make a screenwriting app?” Answer: Today. My hope is that we just made a thousand. Fountain turns every text editor into a screenwriting app.
This means flexibility. This means genuine collaboration - people in geographically different locations can edit the same Google Doc at the same time. This means I can write a screenplay on my phone.
This means I don’t really have any excuse not to write any more.
El Wingador »
Errol Morris Op-Doc on Bill ‘El Wingador’ Simmons. I love that he has a cross-stitch by his front door saying “NOTHING EXCEEDS LIKE EXCESS”.
Russian scientists searching for underground "alien" lake still missing on SEVENTH day as Tuesday "date of no return" looms »
Sorry for linking to the Daily Mail, but HOLY FUCK.