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Saturday, November 16, 2002
Best opening sentence of the day:
"In trying to unravel a mystery that may involve the war of the worlds, cable TV's SCI FI Channel has turned to a group of educated men and women with shovels and set them loose on the southern New Mexico desert."
Rod, keeper of The Joy of Shards, emailed with an update to my post on Monday about the Hitchcock mosiacs in the London tube--apparently there is a Rear Window mosiac, and now the JoS has a picture. Check it out.
Via Mefi, Quake Friends. Some in the MeFi comments thread labeled these folks griefers; personally aside from taking up bandwith that could be being used by legitimate players, I find them pretty funny. Funnier than a real episode of Friends, that's for sure.
"Seth Johnson has a 0.06% googleshare of "Inkslinger"."
Damn. I'll have to work on raising my Googleshare.
Friday, November 15, 2002
I sat down to catch up on some freelancing tonight. Honest I did. But didn't I just say below that I've been absorbing lots of Sports Night? I suppose that's why I wrote a Sports Night spec script instead.
At first review, it actually looks pretty good, if a little short (and isn't it strange to call a 40-page script for a half-hour show short? But I'm just working after Sorkin's example.)
Anyway, take a look and let me know what you think. I'll finish brushing up the formatting this weekend.
UPDATE: Formatting complete. I still plan on expanding the script by about 20%, though. Believe it or not, not enough dialogue.
UPDATE 2: Same link, new draft; expanded by two pages, logic of final scene corrected. I tell you because I know you care.
UPDATE 3: Script has been expanded by five pages from the first draft, and that's where I think it will stay.
I've been watching reruns and DVDs of the excellent Sports Night lately, so of course I wanted to read some scripts.
A blog that might be interesting to game fans of both the electornic and paper varieties: gamegrene.
"Harry Potter is a fraud, and the cult that has risen around him is based on a lie."
Slate tells us to stop coddling the Potter boy. (via Accordianguy.)
Random soy sauce pouring! Beautiful women in bed with fish-guys! Cat hangings!
You know I love to bring you incomprehensible Japanese ads, and I know you love to be baffled by them. So stealing the crown from the reigning hi ho champions, I give you KikoMan.
The ASCII rendering of our hero as the Flash movie loads is only the tip of the iceberg, trust me.
Thursday, November 14, 2002
Amazing new photo of the sun, with associated story. I appreciate how they own up to the retouching of the photo in the caption--I was a bit shocked (partially, if I may be self-deprecatingly egotistical, at my own naivete given my physics background) when I recently discovered that NASA recolors Hubble photos, including some that you probably know and love.
You think I put these links up here for you?
Sure I do. I'm here to make you happy, Dear Reader.
But I also refer back to the OD archives quite often while writing, looking for that turn of phrase I read online, or for little quirky things that amused me three weeks ago to spark the engines of creation. Yet sometimes I see things I want to remember and forget to post them. And then I have to spend an hour re-reading the day's web traffic to find it again. But damned if I didn't retrack my way (via the page of Angela Gunn*) to today's William Safire editorial in the NYT. I leave you to wonder why I had to rediscover it. Your answer is probably more amusing than the truth. Besides, there's writing to be done.
* who still makes me wish I spent a little more time on this page so I could appear more erudite and less like a web filter's idiot nephew
Remember the cool welding shields of a couple weeks back? Now they're joined by stylin' gas masks, and being anonymous has never been so stylish!
Lore Sjöberg--Brunching Shuttlecocks' Lore Sjöberg--has a weblog? Sign me up for regular reading. (Thanks to Teresa for the pointer. You know that you should be reading her too, right?)
Thanks to Chad for the link to a constant reminder that gas in the Twin Cities is twenty cents per cheaper than what I paid filling up this morning. I understand the reasons behind it all, and I've always been thankful for Wisconsin's great roads, but still.
Man, it's gonna take every ounce of restraint I have to keep me from posting way too many posters from that archive. (Lucikly, that hasn't stopped me from downloading a whole bunchload.)
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Excellent. Karla has taken pages from the Dune activity book she found and cross-posted them to TPL. Now everyone can enjoy.
Via boingboing, an amazing--can I say amazing twice?--collection of early 20C posters from the WPA. Excellent for so many reasons, I love enough of them that I can't even link to favorites yet. Go check it out for yourself, and though I haven't tried out the service yet I admit that I'm awfully tempted to get some of the posters printed up by Cafe Press.
Sign of the future #1: I haven't had a VCR connected to my television in two months.
Sign of the future #2: When I needed to watch a videotape, it was easier to connect the VCR to my computer than my TV.
The dogs of comedy start devouring their own, as Mad parodies the Onion.
(From the MeFi thread on the piece, an excellent behind-the-scenes piece on the Onion from the American Journalism Review.)
A nice site on the Technical Escort Unit, the Army's hazmat team. Don't miss the associated products page, with factsheets on all sorts of neat stuff like Textile Integrated Electronics and First Strike Rations.
While I'm not big on Alex Ross' writing, I'm an enormous fan of his art--so I'm looking forward to the DCU Ross art book that's coming down the pipe next year.
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Hiptop Nation: A community site where folks post text and pictures from everywhere and anywhere using their Danger hiptops.
The latest techno-toy for me to lust after, despite its high pricetag: the Neuros portable audio computer MP3 player/FM radio magictoy.
Monday, November 11, 2002
Finally found a website with pictutres of the Hitchcock mosaics being installed in London tube stations. If I'm ever rich and eccentric (and the one will lead to the other, I promise), I want the North by Northwest mosiac in my bathroom--if only because they forgot to do Rear Window.
If you're not reading it already, may I reccommend FutureFeedForward? It's like the Onion with a post-secondary education.
Thanks to Bezzy for conclusive proof that the moon landings were faked (so convincing that NASA has dropped their counterargument*.)
* Thankfully, only temporarily.
Traffic is slow, but the signal-to-noise ratio is high: the Cinemarati forums. (Thanks to the Flick Filosopher for the pointer.)
Sunday, November 10, 2002
Surfing at work just got more covert, thanks to Ghostzilla (via MeFi, as is the Anti-MeFi--or as I like to see it, Pro-GGGR--mug).
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