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Washington Post | The Future Was Then | The Times Have Caught Up With That Erstwhile Icon of Modernity, the Sharper Image | By David Segal | Washington Post Staff Writer | Wednesday, February 27, 2008; Page C01

I always dug MetaFilter – for some reason I always seem to think of MetaFilter and BoingBoing at the same time?

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fauxtograph

“A fauxtograph is a practical joke in which the video setting of a digital camera is used to trick the target into posing for a really long time for what isn’t a picture at all.”

PhotoServe / PDN | A Bit Near The Buckle | By Mindy Charski | FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Boing Boing

“A Directory of Wonderful Things”

Reader’s Digest – Characters: The King of Swing | Mike Veeck brings crazy back to baseball. | By Andy Simmons | March 2008

Improv Everywhere on location in Grand Central Station, NYC | …via Internal Monologue via Sphere via YouTube

Tech Republic | 10 Things Blog | Steer clear of these 10 illegal job interview questions | Date: September 17th, 2007 | Author: Suzanne Thornberry

As we all know, Mardi Gras is a big annual event in New Orleans and in fact along most of the Gulf (of Mexico) Coast; this year Fat Tuesday (this is what the French phrase “mardi gras” translates to in English…) was yesterday, Tuesday February 5th, 2008.

Wikipedia: Carnival:

Well, if you didnt see them watching the game itself, Tivo‘d, taped or found other Super Bowl 2008 video webspaces (<= use this link if the video below manages to somehow disappear) below is a collection of all the Super Sunday spots edited into one video courtesy of an industrious YouTuber...

Lorelle on WordPress | Content Theft and WordPress | by Lorelle VanFossen | February 4, 2008

If you found me on the internet and are a fellow Stonesoup School Alumni, you would likely be very interested and pleased with Dr. Linton Hutchinson’s Mud Puddle News- The History of Stonesoup School.

In a previous post, I hereby declared “Kubrick Week” (ok, well, Kubrick Friday at this point, anyway…) here – with no small thanks due the Kubrick-sessives over at Coudal Partners, who I found, quite accidentally, on Michael Heilemann’s Kubrick Page (Michael has such long-standing admiration for Stanley Kubrick as to have named his iconic Wordpress theme (Kubrick) for the late film director.

…or “Inspiration and Filming Locations For The Shining (1980):

Coudal Partners Kubrick Page

Coudal Partners | Kubrick Page | Set Photos From A Clockwork Orange | photos found on malcommcdowell.net

February is Black History Month

New Slang by The Shins came on my Ipod today and I was reminded how much I liked the song and the movie Garden State of which soundtrack the song was a part. That’s all.

CNN Money | Many unaware of mortgage help: Freddie Mac | January 31 2008: 1:01 PM EST | Survey says more than half of delinquent mortgage borrowers still unaware of ways to avoid foreclosure.

Urban Dictionary | January 19, 2008 | California Car Pool

More Sundance Film Festival 2008

Bill Westheimer is an photo industry associate, long-time photographer and artist residing here in New Jersey.

Some material, in no specific order, I’ve found around the internet regarding the currently on-going WGA Strike:

It’s that time of year once again with the Sundance Film Festival coming up, beginning January 18th, but how many of you know about TromaDance!?

…by way of Theresa Raffetto and APANY…

Theresa writes:

Adweek: Ad Legend Dusenberry Dies at 71 | …via Wheresspot

Peter Callesen | Selected Works | … by way of Little Wing

Quote from artist’s website:

I recently authored my second article for Wikipedia, a short definition / description of the term “location library”: