Thursday
Feb262009

TWiL 21: It's Our Data And We'll Cry If We Want To

TWiL 21 is up, with Evan Brown, Colette Vogele, Jonathan Bailey, and Rick Klau.

Discussion points here. Also check out the TWiL Wiki Shownotes and TWiL on FriendFeed.

Thursday
Feb262009

For Cougars, It's All About The Stripes

As someone staring down the double-barreled shotgun of her mid-forties I chortle regularly at The Cougar Den, featuring one of Kristin Wiig's chameleon-like comic personas. While the actresses pull off their hormone-and-botox ridden characters with great aplomb (and a sultrified version of the white man's overbite), the unsung heroes of the sketches are SNL's makeup artists — who have clearly made Lauren Hutton's "pooch and nose" techniques, as well as Charla Krupp's contribution to the 21st century literary oeuvre, items of dedicated study.

Saturday
Feb212009

Here Be Kid-Friendly, Good Gender Role-Modeling Dragons

I've been living under a parental rock apparently; have only just discovered Jane and the Dragon.


Jane and the Dragon statue from WETA by popculturegeek.com

Fantastic character voicing, dramatic (but not too scary) story lines, machinima-esque animation (motion capture, turns out), a girl training to be a knight, and one big, quirk-filled dragon. It doesn't look like the show's still in production, but it's on DVD and the books look fun too.

More info, games, etc.

 

Thursday
Feb192009

Lawyers striving to be Googley

Slides for my talk tomorrow to the IADC:

Monday
Feb162009

Growing Up Discovery Channel

Monsters under the bed are so passé.


Comet by Steve Jurvetson (jurvetson)

Today's kid fears are far more sophisticated. Just try to sell that one of these will do the trick, I double-dog dare ya.