April 20, 2004
The nature of meaning in the age of Google
— aggregating meaning and the tension between content and spam (via) #
Kempa on Otto Preminger miscellanea
— Saul Bass, the Zombies, and Nilsson's "Skidoo" opening credits lyrics #
Snarkout on the orchestra union's battle against the Sinfonia
— the accompanying NYT article is a must-read #
Bootleg "Passion" screenings drawing crowds in Jerusalem
— the Israeli distribution company refuses to release it #
Tracking the "Page 23, Sentence 5" meme
— variations spread from Livejournal to the larger blogging world (via) #
Epic announces Unreal Machinima contest finalists
— movies made with real-time 3D engines, usually from videogames #
Programmer hacks full-color interleaved images into the Atari 2600
— people are still creating innovative work for the 2600 (via) #
USC student spends $2500 meal plan on winning Pepsi/iTunes bottles
— don't forget to recycle, kid (via) #
Jabberwocky, a mobile phone app for meeting familiar strangers
— the more you encounter someone, the lighter their square (via) #
A9 predictions about collaborative search filtering
— "people like you found these results the most useful" #
Jason Scott's dialogue with a modern artscene group
— someone else in the group followed up, but still refused his request #