Nick Parker brings us a story about when Zodiak Entertainment got creative about finding themselves a new corporate slogan: The slogan shouldn’t just be like Little Richard’s scream. Little Richard’s scream should literally be the slogan. Zodiak Entertainment: A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom! An instant classic. Totally unforgettable. A pure expression of joy and energy. A slogan with no literal meaning… Continue reading Awop…
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Powers of Ten updated
Updating the outward-bound portion of Powers Of Ten to take account of a few more decades’-worth of data. A worthwhile use of TV Licence payers’ money? I think so. [Via swissmiss]
Public roads, private risks
Dave Winer’s years of experience writing software has prepared him for life as a newbie Tesla owner: I found out in the latest update. I had the temperature in the car set to 65 degrees, the same temperature I have my house thermostat set to. When I got into my updated car, the temperature was… Continue reading Public roads, private risks
Obsidian
After a few months of starting to get my head around what Obsidian can do, interesting to read a take on what it’s capable of from the viewpoint of someone who doesn’t want to build an outboard brain: Not sold on the whole Knowledge Management bandwagon either. I use Obsidian to write everything. I am… Continue reading Obsidian
Domestic bookrooms
If you have enough physical books, enough money, and enough space in your residence to have a “domestic bookroom”, you may well find How Many Books Does It Take to Make a Place Feel Like Home? fascinating: Mr. Byers1 coined a term — “book-wrapt” — to describe the exhilarating comfort of a well-stocked library. The… Continue reading Domestic bookrooms
For 2022
On the same principle that lots of us rewatched Soderbergh’s Contagion in the early days of the first lockdown1, HBO stands to do well with an adaptation of Station Eleven: The show, based on Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 international bestseller, follows the survivors of a flu pandemic. Despite the desperate realities of the world… Continue reading For 2022
New On Netflix
Although I dropped my Netflix subscription three months ago I never did remove my RSS subscription to UK New On Netflix, so every once in a while I have the option of reminding myself of what I’m missing out on.1 Among the recent items that New On Netflix UK lists, I find this: Please Hold… Continue reading New On Netflix
Ack! Ack! AckAckAck!
By the time Tim Burton came to making Mars Attacks he was (rightly) pretty darned famous, which explains the cast he could get at the height of his powers: Between 1988 and 1993, Burton made a string of classics: Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. So it was no surprise that some… Continue reading Ack! Ack! AckAckAck!
Crows
America is a strange place: A friendly, if somewhat foul-mouthed, crow became a temporary mascot at Allen Dale Elementary School in November when the bird took up residence at the Grants Pass school. […] It turns out, talking crows aren’t just something out of an Edgar Allan Poe poem. And this crow, or possibly and… Continue reading Crows
In miniature
I feel slightly guilty that after reading Kris Howard’s A visit to Moominworld I found myself wishing that she’d written more about one of the early steps in the trip: a visit in Hamburg to the world’s largest model railway, Miniatur Wunderland. The Snook was very sceptical about our destination, a place that I’d been… Continue reading In miniature