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Monday

Will Femia — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:54:00 GMT

Hey I just got back from Argentina. Did I miss anything?All this Michael Jackson memorializing reminded me of a chart of sampling that's been done of his songs that was viral a little while ago. I didn't realize it at the time but the guy who made it does these "sample maps" has a whole bunch of them. Also interesting to read how it went viral.I also liked this "Origins of the Moonwalk" video.Less cool but I still watched it, Billie Tweets.And I imagine this year's Thrill 2009 will be well attended.Just...(read more)

Tuesday

Will Femia — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:32:00 GMT

Insane. I wouldn't even do the gorilla stunt but the tattoo? That's just insane. (That said, at the recent International Tattoo Convention in New York City, one of the most common sights was cover-up work, so maybe this guy is giving himself a mental "out" with the idea that he might do a big sleeve to cover it one day. The part I don't get is that the phone is only $200. Surely that tattoo cost at least that much. Steve Martin's business card Remember those "literal video" spoof songs that...(read more)

My map quest

Will Femia — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

While it's not typical for a TV show's Web support to contribute much to the actual on-air content, last week I got to participate in the production of a segment about an effort to plot as much as we know about North Korea on a Google Earth map file. The segment was based on this Wall Street Journal piece but you can download the file directly from the blog of one of the main participants in the project here. If you aren't able to make Google Earth work for whatever reason* I plotted...(read more)

Thursday

Will Femia — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:02:00 GMT

Tight day today so I'm not sure I'll be able to post a longer list later but a few quick must-shares right now:RunPee allows you to look up movies to find out when is a good time to get up and pee and also describes what you'll be missing while you're up.Read Infinite Jest this summer! I'm on page 807 so I should be done soon but I'll still probably follow this group just to see what people are saying. Holding the bulk of the book in my left hand as I read instills a feeling akin to the week before...(read more)

Wednesday

Will Femia — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:02:00 GMT

New NY Times photoblog - "The New York Times introduces Lens, a photojournalism blog that intends to present some of the most interesting visual and multimedia reporting: in photographs, videos, audio slide shows and other formats."From the above: This scene of everyone rushing in to get their shot is familiar. The few times I've been in a photojournalistic situation with other photographers the energy has been very similar.Tweeting too hard - I don't know how this algorythm works but the results...(read more)

Wednesday

Will Femia — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:09:00 GMT

Bar tending game - This game features the worst side of bar tending, when the order-in machine is suffering ticket incontinence and the customers are stacking up at the bar while your arm hair turns the consistency of sticky steel wool and the ice cubes that fell into your apron pocket are making you wonder if you peed yourself. I only played once and had a riot by the end of the week. And they didn't even add blender drinks! (Thanks Matt)Looks like the Wall Street Journal has picked up on Boston.com's...(read more)

Monday-ish

Will Femia — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:15:00 GMT

Today's links felt a little dry so I held out until something cool came up. Here it is. The only thing I'm trying to figure is how this guy learned to do this the very first time.This emergency prop plane landing is pretty cool too.NYTimes guide to TV season finalesLots of links today pointing to Stweet, a mash-up of Twitter and Google Street View. Put in your city and see Tweets superimposed on the street view of the tweet's location.What those bicycle racing crashes that make you shrug your...(read more)

Friday

Will Femia — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:21:00 GMT

Holy moly this is amazing! Death Star destroys the Enterprise. That's kind of a spoiler but even if you don't care about either of those things, this is pretty amazing.Meanwhile, I don't know what Disney is doing with Star Wars but the posters are really funny.I didn't think I cared about photos of famous folk musicians from the '60s but I ended up clicking almost every one of these individually.Web growth peaked in 2007 but might be back with a vengeance in 2009 - or it might not be back with a...(read more)

Wednesday

Will Femia — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:25:00 GMT

Feels like I've been clicking on more slow-motion/time-lapse video lately. This guy does a really helpful job explaining what he did including all of the camera settings. The bottom line is that with storage being so cheap and digital cameras being so accepting of automation and batch photo processing, it's easy to essentially shoot video one frame at a time.Speaking of video one frame at a time, check out YooouuuTuuube. I count 36 frames all the way across. I don't know if this corresponds to the...(read more)

Not quite Monday anymore

Will Femia — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:45:00 GMT

My company-issue Dell Latitude conked out on Friday leaving me mostly high and dry all weekend long. Got a lot of reading done anyway. I mention it because in the past I've had mostly positive things to say about this computer so I wanted to keep the record complete. I think it was the motherboard that gave up. Mike the ass-kicking IT fellow popped my hard drive into another company-issue Dell and I was good to go. I worked that machine pretty hard, I'll admit, but I'll also point out that the HP...(read more)