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Category: Gleanings

Gleanings: Products, Creativity, Piracy

Smokler on May 13, 2009

Product Displacement Blog: Fake Brands that get great product placement on TV.

(via Murketing)

(tags: tv television advertising productdisplacement brands products)

Why "Live Free or Die" is still the world's greatest rallying cry

(via BookForum)

(tags: rallyingcry livefreeordie politics taxes struggle)

If New York went back to the 1970s, would it be so bad? (Vanity Fair)

(tags: newyork nyc vanityfair 1970s 70s economy)

How to summon one's creativity on demand: (Seed Magazine)

(via Idea Festival Blog)

(tags: creativity creation artists)

New York Times on growing industry in pirated electronic books

(via Arts Journal)

(tags: ebooks copyright piracy)

How politics plays on 30 Rock: (Slate.com)

(tags: 30rock politics tv sitcom tinafey)

Gleanings: The Brain, The BART, The Twist

Smokler on May 11, 2009

The neuroscience behind magic tricks: (Wired Magazine)

via AL Daily

(tags: magic neuroscience brain science psychology)

SF's BART system testing cell phone payments: (San Francisco Examiner)

No more paper tickets!

(tags: BART publictransportation transportation payments mobile technology)

Musician/inventors who scratched their own itch or "What inspired 3 of the great inventions in modern music?"

via 37 Signals

(tags: music design creativity inspiration invention)

The End of the Destination Web Era: (Micropersuasion)

(tags: web web2.0 portal)

50 Best and Worst Twist Endings in Movies

via Kottke.org

(tags: movies endings cinema film)

Sound of Young America's unaired TV Pilot

via Waxy.org

(tags: tsoya radio tv pilot maximumfun)

Gleanings: Movie Trailers.

Smokler on May 3, 2009

MovieTheaterTrailers.com | Search, Click, Watch, Rate and Review Movie Trailers.

(tags: film movies trailers previews cinema)

Gleanings: Trivia, Comix, and Love at 140 Characters.

Smokler on May 2, 2009

Prom Night in Mississippi: Documentary on deep south high school's attempt to integrate their prom. In 2008.

(via Toronto Screen Shots)

(tags: prom highschool race integration documentary film movies)

The trouble with second novels – Los Angeles Times

(via Largehearted Boy)

(tags: books novels authors writers sophomoreeffort)

140 Love: Twitter as a dating service

Jeez. (via Elizabeth Spiers)

(tags: twitter dating romance love)

NPR piece on bar trivia nights

(via Roman Mars)

(tags: trivia bars entertainment npr publicradio nightlife)

Comixology iPhone app: Tells you what comics are coming out when

Genius (via Chris Messina)

(tags: iphone comics app)

Photo Stitchings: Collaga photos of people doing exactly the same geture

Wild (via Jish)

(tags: photography photos art stitching)

How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood: Scientific American

(via Derek Powazek)

(tags: design mood creatitivty light)

Gleanings: Scifi, Sarah Jones and Kickstarter

Smokler on April 30, 2009

Bruce Sterling on how science fiction has inadequately prepared us for the age we live in: Interactions Magazine

(via Idea Festival)

(tags: brucesterling scifi literature design future history ideas)

Profile of new Jim Jarmusch film in the NY Times

(via Medialoper)

(tags: film cinema movie limits of control jimjarmusch)

One woman, eight hilarious characters: Sarah Jones on TED.com

A genius.

(tags: Sarahjones drama characters acting TED)

Kickstarter: Kiva for everything

what a great idea (via Waxy.org)

(tags: creativity ideas funding crowdfunding crowdsourcing fundraising entrepreneurship startup)

Gleanings: Widgets, Bridges, and Ferris Bueller

Smokler on April 29, 2009

MTV's 'Bridge And Tunnel' is the greatest show you've never seen: Los Angeles Times

(tags: MTV shows programming bridgeandtunnel)

Can Widgets Save the Television Industry? – BusinessWeek

What an interesting question.

(tags: tv television tecnology future trends)

Why book touring, expensive and wasteful as it may be, is a necessity for the success of publishing

(via Buzz, Balls & Hype)

(tags: publishing marketing booktours promotion book bookstores bookselling)

In praise of the art of obituary writing: The Smart Set

(via AL Daily)

(tags: obituary journalism writing newspapers death)

Crimes committed by Ferris Bueller during his day off. | Ask Metafilter

(via Kottke.org)

(tags: ferrisbueller askmefi 80s film movies conema crime trivia)

Most bizarre video games of all time: SF Gate

(tags: videogames games history weirdness)

Gleanings: Hipsters, Grifters, Sand Shifters.

Smokler on April 26, 2009

Are all the out of town activists doing New Orleans as much harm as good? The American Prospect

(via Girl w/ Pen)

(tags: politics neworleans activism katrina economics change)

The Hipster Grifter | The New York Observer

fascinating! (via Give Me Something to Read.com)

(tags: crime hipster hipsters grifting theft newyork)

Field recordings of Classic Video Game sounds

(via Coudal Partners).

(tags: videogames arcades sounds recordings)

My big feminist wedding: The Guardian UK

We're dealing with a lot of these issues right now.

(tags: jessicavalenti gender women feminism marriage weddings)

Gleanings: Infrastrcuture, The Mafia and Smut.

Smokler on April 25, 2009

Don't believe everything you read about our "failing" infrastructure – Slate Magazine

(tags: transportation infrastructure bridges)

Should the Pulitzer Prize acknowledge more online journalism? Christian Science Monitor

Yes. (via The Elegant Variation)
(tags: journalism online pultizer awards)

History of Digital Smut: Nerve.com

(via BookForum)

(tags: sex porn consumerism smut internet technology history)

Espresso Book Machine, which can print any book in a few minutes, launches today: Guardian UK

(via Arts Journal)

(tags: books printing publishing technology machine espressobookmachine)

Roger Ebert on his hometown of Urbana, IL.

Lovely.

(tags: rogerebert movies autobiography hometowns illinois family)

Italy's Mafia Thrives In Global Financial Meltdown: Huffington Post

Good for them.

(tags: mafia crime italy recession economy)

Gleanings: Movie Star Deaths

Smokler on April 24, 2009

Movie Stars Who Die the Most: Premiere Magazine

(via Kottke.org)

(tags: movies death statistics film)

Gleanings: Archie McPhee, Sundance, Peter Bart

Smokler on April 23, 2009

Who Would Buy This? The Archie McPhee Story

Neat! (via The Murketing Journal). (tags: books archiemcphee humor)

Profile of Peter Bart, departing editor of Variety – Portfolio.com

(via The Business on KCRW)

(tags: variety peterbart profile hollywood entertainment)

Twitter as a tool for music discovery | Epicenter blog at Wired

(via Largehearted Boy) (tags: music twitter socialnetworking)

Are the Tribeca and Sundance Film Festivals at war?

(tags: film movies cinema filmfestival sundance tribeca robertredford robertdeniro)

What will happen to design during an economic recession? Core77

(tags: design economics recession)

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