Lost is ending this year and I've stuck with it through the entire series - from the exciting beginning to the rudderless middle and finally the rejuvenated last season and a half. I figured one way to celebrate this would be to take on an overly ambitious project. If you watch Lost, you'll know numbers play a big role. I'm going to find 108 people to write 815 Sentences About Lost.

To help with this project, I got Scott designed a great looking home for the project even designing some custom Lost buttons for use on Tumblr.

If you'd like to submit something please click here (submissions should be 7-8 sentences each and include a 1-2 sentence bio about you).

I'm pretty happy with how it's going so far. You should check it out.

After getting captured by German soldiers, made into a POW, and then being abandoned by the German prison guards (the bombing of Dresden was in there somewhere, too) Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter home. I always wonder if these guys know they're writing for future audiences, and how lucky his family kept the letter... The refrain of "But not me" in the letter obviously reminds me of "so it goes" from Slaughterhouse 5, which, of course, is based on the aforementioned experience.


Via Daring Fireball

As of this writing, I still don't have Google Buzz on my computer - these thoughts were gleaned from find it enabled on my iPhone. First reaction: Holy crap, I love it.

This app wouldn't have worked 3 years ago, but Facebook and Twitter have been doing heavy lifting, training "Social Media Experts" and technophobes alike how to (over)share. Broadly generalizing here, but a lot of people probably find their Facebook accounts bloated with too many people they don't care enough about. By limiting Google Buzz to the users you communicate most with, Google has made the hard cuts for you.

I wonder if people will share differently than they do on FB or Twitter. What do you think?

Microsoft probably invested millions of dollars and several months to come up with a word they could turn into a verb like 'To Google', but Buzz feels natural right off the bat. For what it's worth, I like 'to Buzz' infinitely more than I like 'to Tweet'.

Since I only saw it on my iPhone, this may change, but it's potential as a mobile app is amazing.

Privacy issues aside, the Buzz Map and the "Nearby" feature of the mobile app are incredibly voyeuristic and addictive. With links to a users Google Profile, it also makes the web a lot more local and personal.

What will Facebook's undoubtedly ham-handed response be? Another move that outrages privacy experts, looks bad, and is hard to use?

When Google exposes my data, somehow I expect it, maybe I'm an apologist. When Facebook does it, people get MAD MAD MAD.

I think Twitter remains relatively useful, but this hurts Facebook a lot.

Also, whither Foursquare?

What do you think?

I do believe this is why the Genie effect on a Mac was invented.

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I've been ambivalent about a TV show before, so I know how ambivalence feels. This is not ambivalence. This is disdain. I'm probably going to miss the show next week and I don't care. I may or may not watch it later in the week. Who knows? I hope 24 is better tonight, but I bet it won't be.

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Saturday Night Live went punk this past weekend in one of their better skits in years. Really, just watch it. This is the best Dave Grohl cameo since he randomly showed up on drums for Tom Petty's appearance a couple years ago. HOLY CRAP THAT WAS 15 YEARS AGO!

Via Kenny, Jorge Arangure's amazing Twitter update:

Hey I'm sure when Peyton Manning was growing up he always wanted to throw the TD pass that gave the Saints a Super Bowl win. Now he has.

Which lead to the return of the Manning Face. Not seen in these parts for several years.

It's very hard for me to understand what could possibly be happening in this video. The kid is motioning on the DL for some reason, and then all of a sudden, he points to his junk. Just watch, you'll see.

I've learned from the government that if you have to release something embarrassing, you do it as close to the end of the day on Friday as possible. Well, here you go. Mind the cursing. (By the way, I put tape on the lock so it wouldn't happen to anyone else.)



Thanks to Zack for helping me get out documenting the situation.

This about sums up our beloved media.