Month: March 2006

movies

I Get It Now

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Okay, so I’m a little dense sometimes and didn’t exactly understand why NBC lawyers were making YouTube take down those awesome SNL video clips. I just thought they were being idiots and making potential fans angry which was the simple answer if you didn’t want to really think about it and instead just wanted to make fun of those corporate honchos who just don’t get it. Now NBC.com has a video section where you can watch those clips. Over time, NBC is hoping to create a thriving site with community features like message boards, blogs and video sharing–similar to MySpace, but around the NBC brand.
Via The Pulse

sports

Another Winter Olympics 2014 Entry: Hoth

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This candidate city web site for the 2014 Hoth Winter Olympics is pure genius.

Whether it involves American Idol or fallen idols (Michelle Kwan and Bode Miller) it appears the Olympics are getting less and less popular with the American public.
In order to revive the Winter Games and to help NBC out of their rating nosedive we devised the following plan that would grab a hold of the public consciousness here in the US as well as viewers around the world.
We believe the 2014 XXII Winter Olympiad (the 2010 Games have already been awarded to Vancouver) should be hosted and held on the ice planet made famous in Star Wars Episode V…Hoth

A good article describes how it came about.

ramblings

Where Cubes Come From

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The inventor of cubicles, Robert Propst, lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called “monolithic insanity” before he passed away in 2000. Fortune has an interesting article about the history of cubicles, where they came from and why and where they might go in the future (hint: it’s not away because, of all things, the way businesses can assign depreciation expenses against these assets).
Via Phyl

politics

From The Are You Kidding Me? Department

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Scholastic recently signed a deal with Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts to write a children’s book about his dog. Mr. Kennedy famously drove his car off a bridge in 1969 in what is know as the Chappaquiddick incident. He landed in the water. A young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. His dog is named “Splash.” I am not making this up.