August 14th, 2007

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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?

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Comments: 7 Responses so far

alexis
August 14th, 2007
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

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Metro
August 14th, 2007
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 …

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Travis
August 14th, 2007
1:27 pm

SW: TESB is ahead of the original Star Wars because it’s by far the superior movie. :)

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darren
August 14th, 2007
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.

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Allen Langdon
August 14th, 2007
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.

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Patricia
August 15th, 2007
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.

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Meg
August 22nd, 2007
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.

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