28 May 2008
23 May 2008

Multimedia is often unnecessary.

I saw this link to a story on Burma's hip-hop scene, which is an interesting topic for sure - what I found is a Slate video that is needlessly animated and features no audio samples of the Burmese hip-hop. You can't skim a video like you can with text, so I ended up spending 2 minutes to watch something with no visual purpose, and hear something with no beneficial auditory purpose. If it were text I could have skimmed it and gotten what I wanted from it in 25 seconds.

OK, Gelato won't let me embed a non-YouTube video (way to continue Google's domination of the Internet, Gelato) but you're better off not bothering with it.

It's not worth pausing the R. Stevie Moore album I'm listening to for this!!!

22 May 2008
20 May 2008

Video Pizza

New feed

Hi,

I've switched to FeedBurner to manage this feed. Please update your subscriptions to the new URL (found on the RSS button here ), though the old one is gonna redirect to FeedBurner anyway.

Thanks.

19 May 2008
18 May 2008
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Nicholson Baker interviewed, discussing 'Human Smoke'

16 May 2008
14 May 2008
13 May 2008
Terry McAuliffe

The Clinton campaign is now trying to say that it's "good" for the Democratic party for her to stay in the race and drag this out as long as possible. Do they even believe it themselves, or are they just trying to convince themselves each time they say it? There's something about the way they're talking to the media now (both in CNN right now and also the Meet the Press thing on Sunday where McAuliffe thought Tim Russert's father was dead) that almost seems to draw attention to the fact that it's a pointless waste of money for her to stay in the race. It's almost like she's saying "Yes, I can't win, but I'm staying in because it's good for the party."

I predicted that Clinton would explicitly say that white people prefer her a few days before she did; now i am going to predict that she will claim that her staying in the race is good for the economy because she's spending millions of dollars in states like West Virginia and South Dakota.

I'm actually going to miss these primaries.

Of course tonight I'm staying up late for the Pens/Flyers game 3 -- not the WV primary that will not surprise me -- but I will be sad when I don't stay up til 3 AM watching shitty CNN discussions anymore.

09 May 2008
08 May 2008
06 May 2008
nice day

It's maybe the nicest day I have ever experienced in 3 years in this fine city. And of course I'm here inside cause I stupidly have to wait for someone to come and pick up the fridge I've been trying to get rid of for months ....

Glasgow: urban renewal (imminent)