A List of Stuff I Meant to Blog About
What with the traveling and the buying and selling of laptops, I’ve accrued a largish set of open browser tabs I’ve been meaning to mention. I need to get that particularly set of web monkeys off my back, so here they are, in yet another list:
- Via the Fast Company blog, Frog Design staffer Ashley Menger devised a new way to think about the garbage we create: for two weeks, “anything that she couldn’t compost, flush or recycle had to be carried or kept within 5 feet at all times”. Other staff members have apparently joined the project.
- Sarah Lane is yet another attractive host of an American tech show that I don’t recognize. All of my American colleagues know their Morgan Webbs from their Cali Lewis’s, but I got nothing. Regardless, Sarah and her husband traveled around the world in 2006, and she kept a blog. Her FAQ is very informative.
- Anne Mullens is a veteran journalist who’s taken on an interesting project this summer–she’s driving a Kabuki pedal cab and blogging about it. She’s an excellent writer, and it’s a great view into that world. She does suffer from a common ailment of professional journalists who try blogging–each post is too long for my tastes.
- Why we do what we do on eBay? I haven’t read it yet, but it comes highly recommended from, uh, somebody.
- Sarah wrote a great column on birth rates in developed nations and the difficult choices that women face around work and family.
- Tim provides some excellent guidelines for Facebook friend and application requests.
- A bunch of movie bloggers got together and built their own list of the top 100 movies of all time. I sense a science-fiction bias in the Force. And why is The Empire Strikes Back ahead of Star Wars?
August 14th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Completely unrelated, but possibly of interest. Have you ever heard of Joe Sacco? Did you know he’s Maltese?
If you haven’t read his work, I suggest you check it out. He’s very, very interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sacco
August 14th, 2007 at 9:17 am
That trash entry is interesting. Reminds me of a CBC article I caught wherein a couple had been using a single green garbage bag for three years by composting, recycling, and reusing absolutely every other piece of waste they generated.
Unfortunately I can’t find the damn thing …
August 14th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
SW: TESB is ahead of the original Star Wars because it’s by far the superior movie. :)
August 14th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Travis: I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I’d like to hear your reasoning.
That said, it’s all about context. “Star Wars” was a ground-breaking science fiction film. “Empire” was a well-constructed sequel.
August 14th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Miller’s Crossing should be on the list. It is the best Coen film, although the Big Lebowski comes close.
Star Wars is more like a theme park ride. Empire was a huge stride forward in terms of character development and storyline.
August 15th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I like Anne Mullens blog, I don’t know that it really qualifies as a blog (the posts are too long) but is really more of a traditional diary gone electronic. Well written though, I think it deserves to be print and the format would be more suitable for it.
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:29 am
Empire had stronger effects, fleshed out the classic elements of the story more effectively, and got better acting out of all the stars. It just made about a thousand times more sense to most of the people watching, and serves as a standalone as well as it does as a sequel.
I think that’s the mark of a good installment in a trilogy.