January 2010
14 posts
“He liked the idea of sweet, clean, oracular young girls (like his creations...”
– Mountain Man, by Virginia Heffernan, in Tablet. (via marcthesharc)
"One caveat: can a character still be a manic...
I fell for her even earlier, in Small Soldiers.
katiebakes:
Qichen Zhang at This Recording notes that Meryl Streep is directly responsible for Zooey Deschanel.
Not only does Meryl hold the title of the original manic pixie dream girl, but she does so at an age three times that of one of our generation’s most well-known imp Kirsten Dunst (four, if you want to count starting with Dunst’s role...
No, they shouldn’t.
jlovett:
Computers Should Be More Like Toasters!
fiatluxemburg:
9to5Mac claims that they’ve talked to a few content publishers (magazines, newspapers), and those publishers are claiming inside knowledge about the device. Most importantly, that it’ll be “[nowhere] near $1000, as has been reported elsewhere.” [Giz]
Will have been not wrong.
Friday Night Lights
msmannersguidetotv:
(Originally written October 31, 2006)
I think my high school football team was pretty good. I can’t say for sure, of course, because in my four years at Montclair High School, I never once went to a football game. Come to think of it, I don’t know if I really know anyone who went to football game—at least, not of their own volition. The town newspaper seemed to write about...
John Hantz is a wealthy money manager who lives in an older enclave of Detroit where all the houses are grand and not all of them are falling apart. With a net worth of more than $100 million, he’s one of the richest men left in Detroit — one of the very few in his demographic who stayed put when others were fleeing to Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills. Not long ago, while commuting,...
Jeremy says many more common languages are...
With all that in mind, which is the hardest language? On balance The Economist would go for Tuyuca, of the eastern Amazon. It has a sound system with simple consonants and a few nasal vowels, so is not as hard to speak as Ubykh or !Xóõ. Like Turkish, it is heavily agglutinating, so that one word, hóabãsiriga means “I do not know how to write.” Like Kwaio, it has two words for “we”, inclusive...
This will probably be a good show
Levon Helm with Okkervil River — Thursday at Terminal 5 in New York
The virtual world of online gaming seems like the perfect place to hide. There is plenty of anonymity, and it’s almost impossible for someone to trace activity back to its source, right? Wrong.
Two weeks ago, Howard County Sheriff’s Department deputy Matt Roberson tracked down a wanted fugitive through one of the most popular games on the Internet — World of Warcraft. And he got his man.
“You...