Because my friends are smart

Check out hyper­people’s latest on the death of television. I feel a little like I’m being used by the hyper­mind though, because Mark has already posted a post about how we good little swarm­ers are help­ing him con­quer the market in eye­balls this week....

Yay!

From shore_fragments (your first com­ment I believe?): 1. What book(s) or movie(s) [let’s say 3 total] would I have to read / see to get an ink­ling of how you see your­self? (not to be con­fused with favourites) The first one is also a favour­ite...

Film review: Walk on Water

Great film. It’s unusual to see an action film set in Israel, and see a dif­fer­ent side of Israel in some ways. I would­n’t say I watch a lot of Israeli films but I cer­tainly see a few, so it’s not com­pletely alien to me, but the ones...

The Interview, part III

From paula_angela: (i) What would you do if you had your own tele­vi­sion chat show? Spend most of my year trav­el­ling around the world. Oh, you mean, on the show? I think it would just be a TV ver­sion of the mag I want to do: a combo of...

Backwards, I tell you

Scary stat from yes­ter­day’s Good Weekend: Per­cent­age of col­lege-edu­cated US women who changed their name after mar­riage in 2000: 23 Per­cent­age in 1990: 17 Am I the only person who is ter­ri­fied by this? [1] [1] Dis­claimer: I am not...