It was really nice to see the President showing us the meaning of freedom on Independence Day. (Via.)
It was really nice to see the President showing us the meaning of freedom on Independence Day. (Via.)
This is kind of awesome. The website for Wedding Crashers (the upcoming movie with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn) is allowing anyone to digitally insert herself into the movie trailer. Thus ensuring that new pseudo-movie-stars like my friend Ryan McGee become the viral marketing brigade for the film.
Workmanlike RSS feed for the Romenesko sidebar. Not pretty, but it gets the job done.
Update: This feed had stopped working properly after the Wotzwot RSS tool’s hiatus. I’ve updated it to scrape the page properly again.
Wotzwot = busted. Here is the new feed, courtesy of the awesome Feed43.
Have you seen the movie Crash yet? Phenomenal, and I’m very excited about the prospect of it being turned into a TV show.
Timely, too, considering you still read stories like this:
A group of white men set upon three black men on the streets of Howard Beach, Queens, early yesterday, beating one with a baseball bat and fracturing his skull, the police and prosecutors said.
The white men, who emerged from a black 2005 Cadillac Escalade before dawn, sent the black men fleeing into nearby swampland and through the streets of the largely white, insular neighborhood. …
Mr. Minucci, the accused, said that the three black men might have been looking at his jewelry earlier last week, and that he was responding to that when he came across them around 3 a.m. yesterday. For their part, two of the black men, according to police, admitted under questioning that they had been in the area with hopes of stealing a car.
Sad. Every which way.
I take it all back. Sorry, Mark Danner. David Foster Wallace clearly gave the best commencement speech this year at Kenyon College, filled with his trademark meta-metadiscursion, but much less pithy than his usual fare. It teeters at one point right on the edge of trite, but slams it all home marvelously, I think.
From JKottke, scientists posit that the reason we can’t remember our early youth is because we don’t have the language skills to encode events into memory.
Keepgoing.org takes a look at the story behind Suck, one of the first Web publishing phenoms, former stomping ground for the likes of Terry Colon, Nick Gillespie and Brian Doherty, Carl Steadman, Ana Marie Cox and Greg Beato. Along with Feed, Suck was once the darling of the cyberati.
“It may not fully be the equivalent of having served time in a Mexican prison where we were all raped and tortured and scarred for life,” says Gillespie, “but it is something like that.”
Heh. (Via.)
PS: Now that Michael Jackson is retreating from the limelight a little bit, I’m happy Tom Cruise has decided to step up to play the part of Insane Celebrity. It’s the role he was born for. Although it sucks that he killed Oprah.