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The idea here was to include the audio of me speaking along with this so it would make more sense, but I’m not quite sure how to do that yet. So here are my lame slides. They’re really basic, but they’ll give you a rough sense of my presentation at SXSW last week. Use the [...]

Much too exhausted to blog effectively. Instead here’s a brief list of things that happened today.

Chatted with Amanda Congdon about Chuck Olsen’s relative awesomeness.
Commiserated with the director of American: The Bill Hicks Story over SXSW’s lackluster business center. Seriously? They don’t take cash for 25 cent printing purchases?
Said some shite to a room full of [...]

Today was actually kind of nice and relaxing. I was up early enough to catch the first sessions (at the crack of eleven). I went to the What is Open Video panel and halfway through, I realized that I was missing the Clay Shirky talk that was happening simultaneously. Shirky is one of the interactive [...]

Long day today. I slept in (wow, I needed it) and then got lunch with Andy and Todd at the Iron Works BBQ place. I attended a film panel on “cause-driven” filmmaking that was pretty good. Then I saw Ze Frank’s talk, which was awesome in its Ze Frankness. A beer in the park followed [...]

Okay, it’s after 2:30 AM so this is gonna be brief.
Tim Blake Nelson and I made eye contact at JFK this morning. He was on my flight to Austin. I passed his row on my way to the lavatory and noticed he was watching a 1970s Roy Scheider movie on his laptop that may or [...]

I’m clearing some tabs before the trip…

This “Academy Award-Winning Trailer” borrows a bit from Soderbergh’s Schitzopolis, but in a good way.
What you should “realistically” do if you find yourself the last person on Earth.
Best. Cuckoo. Clock. Ever.
An exhaustive hand-written list of Types of Bitches.
Flameape recently reminded me of the genius that was Shooby Taylor.
Scientist buzz-kill [...]

I’m heading out for SXSW first thing tomorrow morning. This is the fourth time I’ve attended the film and interactive festival and conference and it’s always a logistical nightmare figuring out what panels and sessions I want to get to and what films I want to see, but this year is especially complicated and exciting [...]

I’m a constituent in Ward 5. I live in Ledgewood Condominiums on Austin Drive. I should also point out that I just voted for your re-election on Tuesday. I’m writing to express my strong support for the option of turning over the reins of Burlington Telecom to Tim Nulty and the “Group of 9″ so [...]

Chatroulette. I haven’t tried it, but I love that it exists. Here’s a great little documentary about it…

And here’s a ridiculously awesome hack of the idea. I wish I’d thought of this.

I’m pretty excited about this! Join Steve, Emily and me on Sunday from 4 – 6 P.M. eastern time for the live broadcast & stream of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio’s 100th episode. Special guests joining us during Sunday’s broadcast/stream include…

MSNBC political commentator and analyst, Rachel Maddow
Comics writer and illustrator, Brian Wood
Political blogger, Matt Yglesias
Actress and web video [...]