Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Gigantor papercraft (link roundup)



Download the Gigantor/Tetsujin-28 paper toy here.

And a few more links:

1. Dr. Manhattan-themed condoms. Relatedly, this site features a few Watchmen comic panels blown up to desktop wallpaper size. Via.

2. Washington Post profile of 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole. At least according to the article, he's unemployed, living with his mom, and losing money running the site. Via these sites.

3. Mark Cuban is soliciting business plans, and plans to fund the best ideas. Biggest caveat - - you have to post you business idea on his blog.

4. I didn't feel like registering to read the original article, but apparently a California judge recommended that a prosecutor be suspended for four years for various misdeeds including concealing evidence. His boss, the Santa Clara County District Attorney, says the prosecutor will keep his job.

*Previously: Gigantor figurines.

*Buy Gigantor toys at eBay.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Another poster for Pixar's Up (link roundup)



Another poster for Pixar's Up. Via.

And a few more links:

1. An absurdly labor-intensive promotion for Take Your Child To Work Day.

2. If you created a rss feed with Feedburner, you're going to have to switch to Google in about a month. I just switched over the feed for Toycutter. (It seemed to be easy and fast.)

3. More information on that weird 4Chan battle.

4. Reminder, milkshakes are astonishingly bad for you. Via.

*Previously: Retro-style poster for Up.

*Buy Pixar posters at eBay.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Hamlet, written as a series of Facebook entries

"Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)" by Sarah Schmelling for McSweeney's. Here's a sample:
Polonius says Hamlet's crazy ... crazy in love!

Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends.

Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not.

Hamlet thinks Ophelia might be happier in a convent.

Ophelia removed "moody princes" from her interests.

Hamlet posted an event: A Play That's Totally Fictional and In No Way About My Family

The king commented on Hamlet's play: "What is wrong with you?"

Read the whole thing.

*Previously: "Shakespeare hates your emo poems" t-shirt.

*Buy Hamlet posters at eBay.

Friday, June 13, 2008

An interesting point about the internet

Keith Boesky at Deadline Hollywood Daily:
The undisputed eyeball champ on line is Evolution of Dance on youtube, which has garnered 87 million views over two years, but the thing is only 6 minutes long. After two years on line, it captured as many viewed minutes as 4.5 airings of Gossip Girl.

[snip]

Value on-line is created by consumer engagement and community, not eyeballs alone.

Here's Evolution of Dance, by the way:

An interesting point about the internet

Keith Boesky at Deadline Hollywood Daily:
The undisputed eyeball champ on line is Evolution of Dance on youtube, which has garnered 87 million views over two years, but the thing is only 6 minutes long. After two years on line, it captured as many viewed minutes as 4.5 airings of Gossip Girl.

[snip]

Value on-line is created by consumer engagement and community, not eyeballs alone.

Here's Evolution of Dance, by the way:

Thursday, May 29, 2008

$40 million later, NY Times finally able to use hyperlinks

Jackson West for Valleywag:
Last week, Publishing 2.0 noted that the New York Times was finally using hypertext links in articles in a meaningful way. Welcome to the 20th century, Grey Lady! The Times invested in WordPress, which is used for the site's blogs, but the rest of the product? That required an expensive upgrade to CCI NewsGate, which comes with a $40 million price tag and is "very time consuming to integrate, especially across multiple properties," according to an editor at another major market daily.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Today's impossible to decipher spam filter letters



Encountered when I tried to comment on Chris Haley's awesome illustration of George Washington as The Hulk. Is the last letter(s) kanji?

Monday, January 28, 2008