April 2010
10 posts
Män som hatar kvinnor
When I heard that there was going to be a US film adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo I was angry. I mean, I wasn’t surprised. At all. I’m not stupid. That’s what we do. We take good things and make them huge and clean and digestible. But I was hoping that just this once something good could be allowed to simply be what it was without the Hollywood machine swooping...
My New Chair
After seeing a co-worker use one of these for over a year I never really had the urge to try it myself. But now that I work from home and have discovered that my office chair is actually a slow-death torture device, I’ve decided to give it a whirl.
Day 1: Pretty good so far. At the very least it’s fun to have the option of bouncing while I work. Especially when I get angry at the...
Worthless Reporting
What the hell is this crap post from the New York Times? They quote three comments about the stolen iPhone story that indicated glee at Apple’s loss of secrecy control. THREE.
But perhaps what is surprising is the utter delight and occasional vitriol permeating the reactions around the Web.
Surprising that there are people who hate Apple? Yeah, that’s just shocking. Never seen...
Bill:
My new outgoing voice mail message.
Comics on iPad
Skip the Marvel iPad app and get the Comics app instead. It’s the exact same app as the Marvel app, made by the same company, but instead of only carrying Marvel comics it includes a bunch of indie publishers in addition to Marvel. My friend Mike DeVito’s book, The Stuff of Legend, is worth a read and I’ve heard good things about “The Walking Dead” as well (which has...
Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones Review →
“Star Wars Episide II Attack of the Clones is the worst thing ever made by a human.”
And so it begins. God I can’t wait to sit down and watch all nine parts.
THE MAGIC PAD
It’s really not hard. It’s a 10 inch flat screen where magic happens. Get it? Of course you do. So go fucking buy one. Stop taking everything so damn seriously. It’s just an amazingly cool computer. Don’t you like amazingly cool computers? Stop wringing your hands about platforms and publishing industries and openness. You don’t really even care about that shit. You...
Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the... →
Buzz Andersen:
I’ve definitely noticed this phenomenon—”…the insidious practice of color-grading every movie with a simplified, distilled palette of teal and orange”— subconsciously for some time now. This look feels like it’s become a reliable indicator of mainstream movie blandness.