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TV History in a nutshell
From a New York Times article about South Park comes this interesting tidbit of TV history:
It brings to mind a similar arrangement made by another visionary, the sorely underestimated Desi Arnaz. In 1951, for “I Love Lucy,” the show he did with his wife, Lucille Ball, he suggested that CBS use three cameras and film [...]
stoner towel math
via nick douglas
marine one helicopter scandal?
Who knew?
Via War and Piece comes a Huffington Post article about some apparent hanky-panky surrounding the awarding of a contract to build 28 new Presidential helicopters to an Italian aerospace firm:
“Obama Confronts a Choice on Copters” read this week’s New York Times . The President soon “will have to decide whether to proceed with some [...]
Design wankery
Via BoingBoingGadgets comes the supposed pitch book for the new Pepsi logo. Having worked in design firms, this all looks very familiar…
This 6MB PDF that is purported to be the pitch used by design group Arnell to sell executives at Pepsi on a new logo design is perhaps the most brilliant example of puffed up design faffery I’ve ever [...]
the future of newspapers
Steve Coll, who wrote one of the more depressing books I’ve run across in recent years, Ghost Wars, lets fly with his theory on the future of print journalism in this piece from the New Yorker. I’ll spoil it for you: Non-Profit.
In the foreseeable future, it seems, there will be two kinds of nonprofit newspapers—those [...]
It’s 5am
I have two cats laying on my legs, I can’t sleep, I’ve played all of the iPhone games I care to play, and I’m getting bored.
So I’m seeing if the wordpress iPhone app works like it should.
And so this post isn’t a total waste, I’m going to attach some photos from my trip to Darkroom [...]
all done
we’ve moved everything over to wordpress, and (for me, at least) the address nurblog.nurble.com resolves to the new fancified wordpress site. I have no idea what will become of the links from the old podcasts, but I can only assume that they will be, to use a technical term, fucked.
Your patience is appreciated.
on foodies
From Eater:
ON ‘FOODIES’ —
“For me, the word is a warning that says, ‘Hey, I’m not any fun to have a meal with.’ I’m all for people enjoying the hell out of food, but not if it means they have to give themselves a title to lord over ‘non-foodies.’..I like the olden days when people who [...]
Sia on Letterman
So far I’ve watched this five times, and it still gives me chills:
David Simon and The Wire
From a fascinating interview with the occasionally obtuse but always interesting David Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire, comes a tidy explanation of the motivations behind the show, encapsulated as only a writer could:
It’s a Greek tragedy, and everyone’s trying to think Antigone or Medea or Oedipus out of the box. Which is understandable. When [...]