The first Google Doodle
via google.com Google’s “doodles” are often pretty inspired, and commemorate birthdays, holidays, seasons, and events like the Olympics. They are also archived at Google. This was their first one I can find in the archives, and it comes from August 30, 1998. It commemorates, of all things … Burning Man.
In Defense of Tea
via flickr.com Not that anyone is maligning tea … although I did for a long time, so perhaps I’m defending it from myself. For years I disliked tea. Most of my experience with it was iced tea and tea in Japanese or Chinese restaurants. When we were in Thailand last year I was given a cup of lemongrass tea. I politely sipped it … and discovered it was awesome! (Mary informed me later that it was also loaded with sugar, which helped make it so good). But it broke down a lot of my resistance. A year later, Mary got Read more…
Fade to Black
via pheedcontent.com An homage to last scenes.
The Problem with Lost’s Last Season. BEWARE. Loaded With Spoilers.
So … Lost. I was disappointed last season, but I told myself, the writers know where they're going, and we'll see a spectacular last season. Yes, the writers knew where they were going. But this season has been really disappointing. Lots of spoilers below. If you haven't seen it, and don't want to know, don't read. If you haven't seen it, and do want to know, be prepared to go "what?!" a lot. Intellectually, I like the Sliding Doors style look at the characters. But there's a lot of flaws with it. Let's take Sawyer as our best example. Sawyer is Read more…
Wonder Boys
I'm a big fan of Wonder Boys. It came out in 2000 but got lost. The studio apparently thought enough of it that they decided to rerelease it again. It still got lost. Which is too bad, because it's a great movie. The only thing that seemed to stick was that Bob Dylan's song was really good (which it was). Good writer's inspiration, too. There's a feel to it that I really like and realize that I've often tried to emulate.
It’s a small neighborhood after all
via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com This is a fascinating graphic. If the entire US population were as dense as Brooklyn (35,000 people per square mile) we’d need only New Hampshire to hold the whole US. Clearly Brooklyn is a lot more dense than I’d given them credit for.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: The Movie
Mary and I went up to Seattle with some friends to see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo early (it comes to the Grand in a few weeks). It's a great adaptation of the book, true to the spirit and the plot, with some excellent decisions made on what to cut. It's a good mystery, in either book or film form. Really well done.
Gardens in their communities …
The first video I made for Exit133.com was about community gardens …