Okay, some big goings-on going on backstage here at cinemalog, hopefully a lot of it will become public pretty soon.
Nathan has destroyed my life be introducing me to the most evil, time-consuming game ever: The Falling Sand Game.
Also, despite being blonde himself, he linked to what is (without a doubt) the funniest blonde joke of all time.
Enjoy these links; combined they should keep you occupied through 2007.
EDIT: Falling Sand Hell.
Ah, memes.
Well, Zach is officially married and away on honeymoon. It was a fantastic wedding.
Mazal Tov, Zach!
Okay, so Z & E are both away on their respective Honeymoons, and here I am about to post a Mazal Tov to Nathan on his engagement (Mazal Tov!) when I get news (from the man himself) that Jordan is also engaged; the very same day.
Mazal Tov, guys! May you all have enduring relationships with your chosen and full lives together!
Summary of a talk I had with Danny Kirschner last summer, when the Google IPO was announced:
[amended using present-day examples]
Google’s not the next Microsoft – they’re the next Electricity. They’re turning their search tech into a commodity.
Forget their services – their goal isn’t for GMail to take over email. They don’t want to host everyone’s content. But by offering a Gig of storage, they’re sending their ‘competitors’ scrambling, and now Yahoo! and Hotmail have to offer more storage. Google is not trying to offer competing services – that ‘small change’ is a red herring to keep their competitors occupied with trying to beat Google; and Google will let them. What Google is doing is trying to flood you with so much native data – your complete archive of email, photos, etc… that the only way you can possibly aggregate all that data is with Google… The key part of their search tech, Pagerank, of which is by the way patented. So they have that cornered.
Once everyone has 15 GB of email, the only way to organize it will be with Google Search. And everyone will need it.
Take Flickr for example. Google just doesn’t care. Let Yahoo! Host everyone’s photos. Once they’re all up there, they’re going to need to find what they’re looking for, and that’s where Google comes in. See Google’s involvement with Riya, which organizes your photos by using facial recognition. Can anyone can compete with that?
Every service Google offers is not trying to take over – they are simply assembling the pieces of a greater puzzle which they will, in a few years, implement. You’re seeing the crumbs of the ingredients, and maybe tasting the batter, but wait till you see what they’ve got cooking in the kitchen:
Either that, or I’m just incredibly overestimating them, in which case they’re in for a crash..
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Today I saw one of the best film’s I’ve seen… possibly ever.
BRICK.
Thanks to Ami for turning me on to it.
A review will be forthcoming, but I need time to do it justice.
“The year 2004 saw Gibson return to the director’s chair for The Passion of The Christ. Funded by 25 million of Gibson’s own dollars, the religious drama generated controversy. Despite the debates surrounding the film — and the fact that all of the dialogue was spoken in Latin and Aramaic — it nearly recouped its budget in the first day of release, and in the end grossed over $370 million (all of which Mel later transferred directly to Christ).”
via Petition to Draft Mel Gibson and the official Mel Gibson Blog
You can now watch the The Sundance Film Festival Shorts in competition online:
Sundance Shorts
You must watch ‘The Pity Card.’ Where is the worst place to take a girl on the first date? Go. Now. Watch.
Also Robin’s Big Date, with a great cast.
There are all really great; kudos to Sundance and the filmmakers.
via robert a/k/a r
UPDATE: Gopher Broke to Become a Feature Film
We can only hope the same will be true of the other aformentioned shorts..