Best Picture at the Oscars goes RCV
But in the Best Picture category — which used to be listed in the middle of the Oscar ballot, but will now be in a separate, detachable section — voters will be asked to rank the nominees in order of preference, one through 10. Those ballots will then be tallied using the preferential system (for a full-blown explanation, click here) in which the film with the fewest Number One votes will be eliminated, and its votes redistributed based on the film listed second on those ballots. Eventually, one film will wind up with more than 50 percent of the vote, Read more…
How to Blog a Book
“It’s a five-year process from writing to publishing,” said Llewellyn, of traditional books. “It’s incredibly frustrating. And it’s like the lottery, such a risk every step of the way. “The Tilting House” was the fourth manuscript I tried to have published – no one ever read the others. So the idea of having an immediate audience was attractive.” The result is “Letter Off Dead,” a book in blog form (letteroffdead.com) which Llewellyn’s been writing since last April. The book follows the middle-school adventures and mishaps of Trevor, who begins writing to his dead father in a desperate measure to cope Read more…
WA’s public lands
Last night's presentation by Peter Goldmark was interesting. As Commissioner of Public Lands, he is in charge of 5.6 million acres of public lands in Washington, including the seabeds of many rivers and the Sound. There's a lot that goes with that. One of the most intriguing proposals was using what would have been burn piles from forestry operations for biomass power. Apparently a lot of the timber industry is very interested in this–after all, it was waste, and now it's profit. And certainly it's good for an alternative power solution. But, as was pointed out to me shortly after Read more…
10 Nominees
Best Picture “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers via oscars.org So this is what 10 nominees for Best Picture look like. On the Read more…
After tonight’s episode of Lost, this will totally be me
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/final_season_of_lost_promises_to
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