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Entries for August 2005
Andy Baio dug up this circa-1995 version of BobaWorld, one of my earliest favorite pages on the web. Boy, that square imagemap at the bottom of the page takes me back.
Tom Standage says bottled water is “bad to the last drop”. It’s more expensive than gasoline, doesn’t taste any better, and isn’t any safer.
Big exhibition of Lee Friedlander’s photography at the MoMA until the end of August. It’s interesting to see the influence Friedlander’s work has had on some of the photobloggers I follow.
Cory Doctorow to Apple Computer: put Trusted Computing in your kernel and I’m done as your customer. This doesn’t look promising. You’ve got a good thing going here, Apple…don’t fuck it up.
Wedding Crashers
The comedic quintet of Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, and Ben Stiller may have finally found their optimum configuration in Wedding Crashers. I can’t really watch anything with Stiller in it anymore, Will Ferrell is growing tiresome, and Luke is more of a straight man than funny on his own, but Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are great in this movie, especially Vaughn. Judging from its box office trend, Crashers could be one of those rare summer flicks that lasts more than 4-5 weeks at the theater. The only thing I didn’t like: at 119 minutes, it was about 20 minutes too long (they should have lost that cameo).
Ice Cream Factory smackdown in Chinatown. Same owners or will an ice cream war consume Chinatown?
How the DVD is changing Hollywood and the movie business. “Most important, the new DVD audience is so diverse that companies can target niche markets and still sell millions of disks. Because specialized markets are more predictable, the risk of failure is much lower, and so small-to-mid-budget movies can be very profitable indeed.”
Cezanne and Pissarro at the MoMA. “Working in tandem or with each other in mind, Cezanne and Pissarro formulated a distinctly modern art, simultaneously self-confident and self-critical.”
New bookmark: interesting Flickr photos from the last 24 hours, automagically determined. PageRank for photos, sorta.
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