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Links for 2/15/08



Posted on February 15, 2008
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Rewind Kindly - Inspired by Be Kind Rewind, Austin based Filmmaking Frenzy is putting on a contest for people to “complete an up-to-five-minute, homemade, low-budget remake of a popular hollywood film”. Much love to Star Wars.

The Appeal of the MacBook Air - John Gruber proselytizes for the MacBook Air a bit more, comparing it to a sexy convertible coupe (not unlike the iPod Mini or Nano). I pretty much agree with Gruber, and am still surprised that there is a strong group of people who foresee the MacBook Air failing. Would I buy it? No. But it is a good machine for a lot of people besides me. (Then again, this is a lot more than $50 we’re talking about; analogies only go so far.)

Things I have learned from mostly linkblogging for more than 10 years - Ben Tesch has been speaking to my heart lately with all of his ideas.

It makes sense that a video post and a photo post and an audio post look different, but why is there only one type of text post? Why is a Tweet handled in the same way as a 2,000-word essay? Where is the book or movie review type? Jason has done this kind of stuff for years, and had to manage entire multiple blogs just to do it. Why can’t I take a feed, create a new post template specifically for it, and plug the feed into it? And if I can, why is it so difficult?

Alltop.com - Like popurls.com except organized by topic. Click a topic and find the newest stories from at least thirty related sites. For example, click Science and get the top stories from New Scientist, Nature, New York Times, ABC, and more. Or in their own words:

We help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. We’ve grouped these collections—”aggregations”—into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as celebrity gossip, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, we display the latest five stories from thirty or more sites on a single page.




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undressing the internet
Photoshop CS 4WES0ME
Why so serious?
You’ve Got Regret!
Proud to be a Parody
Lando Carter

music
Nana Grizol - Love It Love It
Gablé - 7 Guitars with a Cloud of Milk
Why? - Alopecia
Xiu Xiu - Women as Lovers
Rings - Black Habit

graphic novels
Astonishing X-Men #23
The Umbrella Academy #1
Rex Mundi #7
Doktor Sleepless #1 & #2
The Last Fantastic Four Story

concerts
Man Man, The Extraordinaires (3/22/08)
The Walkmen, White Rabbits, The Triggers (1/16/08)
Electric Six, We Are The Fury, The Resistors (11/07/07)
Jens Lekman (10/29/07)

interviews
Syme
Jamie Tanner
Texas is the Reason
Jason Anderson
Body Without Organs

movies
Tropic Thunder
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Ruins
There Will be Blood
No Country for Old Men

features
USA NUMBA 1
Best Musical Albums of 2007, Belated
Spotlight on Hong Kong Six