I've noticed a theme to the Unlikely Words posts this week. Still, if you were to sit there and tell me, "No, I have no interest in watching 4 minutes plus of people riding bikes down a 35 foot ramp and jumping in to a pond." I'd call you a liar and I'd mean it. How could this not be relevant to your interests?
I don't think anyone really gives a shit about the deficit, what people care about is whether they have a job. In any case, check out the NY Times Budget Puzzle. It was easy to solve the deficit and create a surplus by raising taxes and reducing spending. PS 30 year budget projections are a joke and a waste of time.
Both times I was editing Kottke, some of my favorite posts were the skateboarding videos posted late night. (Who am I kidding, all of my posts were my favorites) (They were). In any case, here are 3 skateboard videos I saw recently, 2 of which are from JK himself.
Another video featuring the use of 2 skateboards at once. The use of 'Shot Through the Heart' is an inspired choice, especially because it ends about 30 seconds before the end of the video.
Veterans Day does not include an apostrophe but does include an “s” at the end of “veterans” because it is not a day that “belongs” to veterans, it is a day for honoring all veterans.
Yesterday, I wrote about the lack of smartphone/internet/Facebook use by the main characters in contemporary movies and books (I may not have mentioned internet or Facebook or movies, but I meant to). In a discussion that followed, Nick mentioned the idea of a story told entirely in Facebook updates. Almost as if on queue, this video from Maxime Luere. An entire story told through status updates. Well done, too.
At a certain point, we've all wondered when the world of The Wire would cross with the world of Mad Men. The wait is over. Dominic West/McNulty will star in The Hour, a 6 part BBC drama about the making of television news hour set in 1956 London. The show is, be still my beating heart, being called the British equivalent to Mad Men. WOW. FUCKING WOW!
In an article about Google's recent surprise company-wide raise and bonus this about Facebook's staff.
Of the more than 1,900 Facebook employees with resumes on LinkedIn, 300 -- around 15% of Facebook's staff -- list Google as a past employer.
Is that a lot? Because it sounds like a lot to me. Also, the person that leaked the raise/bonus info to Business Insider got fired. They presumably will not be receiving a raise or a bonus. Unless they go work for Facebook.
In my best Andy Rooney voice, did you ever notice how characters in books and movies don't use smartphones/computers/theinternets the way that people (we) normally do? This goes beyond the idea of sitcom killing cell phones, though. Think about the last contemporary book you read. Do smartphones exist in that book? Are they used in any meaningful way by the main characters?
The average fictional character is either so thoroughly disinterested in email, social media, and text messages he never thinks of it, or else hastily mentions electronic communications in the past tense. Sure, characters in fiction may own smart phones, but few have the urge to compulsively play with the device while waiting to meet a friend or catch a flight. This ever-present anachronism has made it so that almost all literary fiction is science fiction, a thought experiment as to what life might be like if we weren't so absorbed in our iPhones but instead watched and listened to the world around us at a moment's rest.
In the Esquire article about Roger Ebert a few weeks back, Ebert mentioned his interview interview with Lee Marvin as one of his favorites, and now they've republished it online.
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