Month: February 2013
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What Your Culture Really Says – Pretty Little State Machine
What Your Culture Really Says – Pretty Little State Machine Toxic lies about culture are afoot in Silicon Valley. They spread too fast as we take our bubble money and designer Powerpoints to drinkups- …
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Weyland-Yutani Archives: Alien Unseen: Part One – Ridleygrams
"During Alien's pre-production- Ridley Scott drew up a story board presentation of Alien for 20th Century Fox. This story board presentation contains scenes and FX shots that were later re-written or dropped due to budgetary reasons. Here we are going to take a look at some of these early scenes and concepts Ridley envisioned for […]
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Officemates Unwittingly Spend Entire Workday Talking To Each Other On Grindr
Officemates Unwittingly Spend Entire Workday Talking To Each Other On Grindr
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Attention- Publishers: 'Iconic' Is Not A Business Model – Forbes
'Just what it means besides "big" and "old" is a little unclear- but for big- old magazines- "iconic" is the self-descriptor of choice. Publishers wave it around like a talisman that has the magic power to make falling ad revenues and shrinking subscriber rolls irrelevant. Magazines that are iconic can never die. They're too beloved […]
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Posterous will turn off on April 30
The most captivating thing about Posterous when it launched was the email-based signup where you simply emailed them and within seconds your blog was created and ready for posting. They also did a lot of focus on 'posting by email' which was in the right direction of 'consumers need super simpler things (like Twitter) and […]
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Illinois Senate approves gay marriage
A Chicago wedding would be a good time- no? Illinois Senate approves gay marriage SPRINGFIELD — The Democratic-led Senate delivered a Valentine's Day victory to gay and lesbian couples today- passing legislation for the first time that would allow same-sex marriage in Illinois.
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Huge Me
One of my favorite Valentine's Day cake wrecks: Huge Me
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Outside Your Heaven: Is It That Hard to Make A Decent 'Aliens' Game?
"If the genre template for Ridley Scott's original Alien was the slasher film- Cameron's was the zombie film. Alien was about a group of people being picked off one by one- but Aliens is basically a fortress siege movie- like Night of the Living Dead. Swap welding torches for boards and nails and it's essentially […]
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The One Percent Gobbled Up the Recovery- Too
"When you look at the economic recovery's first two years- the top one percent … captured 121 percent of all pre-tax income gains. What did the bottom 99 percent see? Over 2010 and 2011- it saw- on average- a slight net decline in pre-tax income of 0.4 percent. This "negative growth" is what- at least […]
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The GoogleReaderpocalypse Is Upon Us – Google's Feed Reading Service Unusable Since Sunday | TechCru
Oh crap you guys: RSS died again. http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/11/the-googlereaderpocalypse-is-upon-us-googles-feed-reading-service-unusable-since-sunday/ The GoogleReaderpocalypse Is Upon Us – Google's Feed Reading Service Unusable Since Sunday | TechCru