May 2010
The movie doesn’t care about its plot (and neither should you), but it...
– Why Sex and the City 2 is a science fiction movie
$300 fee for shooting in NYC?
There is a public hearing coming up June 3rd 2010 to discuss imposing a $300 fee for EVRY APPLICATION submitted to get permits from the Mayors Office of Film and TV. You already need to prove $1,000,000 in insurance to the city, which isn’t cheap, so this would just kill independent filmmakers and photographers. This would be for every new project, so a shoot today, and a different shoot...
Lindsay Lohan prohibited from installing Linux on... →
Xeni wins Best Headline of The Day
Lindsay Lohan prohibited from installing Linux on alcohol monitoring gadget
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This tendency for the least skilled among us to overestimate their abilities the...
– Why losers have delusions of grandeur - NYPOST.com
Icing is consumer generated.
– Smirnoff Rep Speaks: We’re Not Behind ‘Bros Icing Bros’ - The Awl
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BOS over CLE
And I don’t like the Celtics.
Know Your Meme: Tragic Beard Man →
Image Courtesy of: Frank Gaglione
Yesterday, SF Weekly published The Rise and Fall of an Internet Sensation. Lauren Smiley caught up with Bruso to find out how he’s been handling his Internet fame, and it’s an excellent read on an unfortunate situation.
Beginning in February no less…
Crushable Questionnaire: Andrea Rosen →
15. Given the chance, would you rather hang out with George Clooney or Robert Downey Jr.? Clooney, on the condition that he bring Danny Devito along.
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The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct →
Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, he began carrying around a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.
Made without the knowledge or approval of the NYPD, the tapes—made between June 1, 2008, and October 31, 2009, in the 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant and obtained exclusively by...
This meticulously researched book, which grew from a much buzzed-about article...
– Amazon.com: The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t (9780446526562): Robert I. Sutton: Books
Money is like gasoline during a road trip,” he says. “You...
– Tim O’Reilly: The Oracle of Silicon Valley
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Q. Tell me about the culture of AdMob. What’s it like to work there?
A. We’ve...
– Corner Office - At AdMob, a CEO With a Portable Desk - Interview - NYTimes.com
asonnenberg: Interesting to hear about the company culture at AdMob. Not sure about a culture of constant negativity - don’t think it’s the best way to motivate people - but somewhere in between, there has to be a happy...
Tell you what, motherfuckers, when dead people are left to rot in the sun...
– The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Will Wreck Your Pathetic Ideology
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The privatization of stress is central to capitalist realism. If they are...
– Matthew Fuller » Questioning Capitalist Realism An interview with Mark Fisher
College works on the factory model, and is in many ways not suited to training...
– Caterina.net: Want to be an entrepreneur? Drop out of college.
FOO skews 20-30 years older than ROFL. FOO-ers think of the Net as a tool for...
– Joho the Blog » A tale of two conferences: FOO and ROFLcon