Candleblog

First of all, Alan Tudyk, (Wash from Firefly/Serenity) just bought one of Emily’s dissected frogs. I know that Mr. Tudyk is a real live person and not a fictional character, and yet I still like to imagine Wash playing with the frog along with the dinosaurs on the Serenity’s dashboard. Yay! Secondly, I had intended [...]

I know I’m coming a little late to this party but OMG this is the perfect crystallization of the potential of the remix culture. An Israeli remixer going by the moniker Kutiman has taken clips from a bunch of YouTube videos and combined them to make amazing musical mashups. It’s not just a technological and [...]

Emily is experiencing a little spate of interest in her crafty designs just now and I thought it was worth writing up a post that collects all of these recent cool things in one place. She still lacks a full-time job, but maybe if she can ride this small wave of interest into some sort [...]

Clearing out some tabs for a fresh start to my week! Awesome! Wil Wheaton has seen Watchmen and he says, “Hear me now, my fellow geeks: you have nothing to worry about. Watchmen is fucking awesome.” I was showing off some video blogs in last week’s videoblogging workshop at VCAM and chose this awesome episode [...]

I love this. I disagree with Star Trek, Terminator and Alien, but I acknowledge that this represents conventional wisdom on those franchises. Overall, this is simple and ingenious. via Dear S, via lots of places. Here is the creator’s tumbler blog.

Sure, Mythbusters is cool because its skepical and sciencey and because they tackle fun myths and urban legends and idioms. Sure I enjoy the dynamic between laconic, dour Jamie and hyper dorky, exuberant Adam. But really, I love Mythbusters because they are my people. Emily and I were just saying the other day how we [...]

Here are some things that are awesome… Pictures of the Obama inauguration… FROM SPACE Matthew Weiner (creator and helmer of the most awesome, Mad Men) will remain with Mad Men for at least the next two seasons (there was some speculation that he might leave the show after season 2). The Onion on the inauguration [...]

This beautiful image is from a series called “Land of the Free” by photographer Steve Schofield. Via RCS.

We continue our trip down Candleblog lane, looking at May – August, 2008… 5/21/08: Bill on Blogging part 1: Spitballs From the Bushes – In May I was invited to address the Burlington Free Press newsroom and talk about blogging. I turned the presentation into a series of posts based on my notes for the [...]