Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING? -
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
Dan Harmon is brilliant and so is Community (seriously, if you aren’t watching it, you are missing out on every geek/nerd joke on Earth being performed in primetime). Sorry to see him go and I can only hope that Donald Glover and Chevy Chase are going to just start writing their own lines because I would watch that all day.
Speaking of Coda, the über anticipated Coda 2 is coming out on Thursday.
Check out the features at the Coda site. The last time I was this excited about an update to a program, it was Half Life 2 in 2004… though for a very different reason.
Diet Coda: iPad code editor from Panic -
I love everything Panic creates.
Tumblr swag gets Tumbled (Taken with instagram)
Buffet is sitting out the Facebook IPO:
“The idea that something coming out … that’s being offered with significant commissions, all kinds of publicity, the seller electing the time to sell, is going to be the best single investment that I can make in the world among thousands of choices is…
I am so bullish on local newspapers- they won’t ever be super profitable powerhouses and the classifieds may shrink and some formats may change, but as of today there is no available substitute for town-level reporting outside of major metropolitan markets. There are some local digital news efforts out there (Neighborhoodr, Patch (owned by AOL so it is basically doomed) and outside.in) but none have expanded like people thought they would 5 years ago. Some local things like Craigslist will take over some aspects, but on-the-ground reporting is not going away any time soon. Who is out there reporting high school basketball scores? (Although there are really interesting things happening with automated reporting for data-driven sectors like sports and finance)
This whole market is generally ignored by startups because it is low margin, fucking hard and everyone hates old media- not to mention that if you grew up in a city, your perspective on how people get information is incredibly skewed. But I swear, if you can invent a new model for a local newspaper, you can own local news across the country- but it will take old school “build and acquire” methods over a decade, not the new school network driven approach of explosive growth before an exit.
Buffett’s comment about charging for online content is spot on- living in Manhattan, you may be prepared to pay $20 a month to get content on your iPad, but where broadband is sparse and people still use flip phones, they are far less likely to pay anything for digital access when they can get the paper for $.75 on Tuesday.
There has to be a way to harness new digital media and use it, not to replace, but to bolster and augment old media reporting content at the local level.
Alessandro Puccinelli (via Intersections on the Behance Network)
Incredible.
via Frank: The Next Sandwich -
Ideas are a son of a bitch like that, because they always come when you are least prepared to preserve them. Inspiration is like some sort of weird collision, where the idea is always sweeping across the landscape, through the neighborhood, or in and out the bedroom window. For that idea to hit you, you must be moving as well. If you’re standing still, the idea will whip right around you and keep going…
Needless to say, it was an ‘interesting’ morning.
“Sorry, no exact matches were found, but other tickets may still be available on Ticketmaster.com.”
Well, if only I were searching on Ticketmaster.com… oh wait, that is where I am searching. I don’t buy many tickets to live shows, but every time I go looking, I am amazed at how terrible of a product Ticketmaster has created. It seems to be optimized for those shows that sell out in 45 seconds (see: Bieber, Madonna, U2) but completely obstructionist for someone just investigating.
Do I really need to translate a CAPTCHA with every search? Yes, apparently.
Oh, there are no tickets that match my search? Well, can you tell me what tickets might be available? No? Okay then, I’ll go back to step 1. Want to link me back to that point? No? Okay, now you are just being difficult.
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It may not be out of place to note here the difference between gray as spelt with an a, and grey as spelt with an e, the two names being occasionally confounded.
GRAY is a semi-neutral, and denotes a class of cool cinereous colours, faint of hue; whence we have blue grays, olive grays, green grays, purple grays, and grays of all hues in which blue predominates; but no yellow or red grays, the predominance of such hues carrying the compounds into a the classes of brown and marone [maroon], of which gray is the natural opposite.
GREY is neutral, and composed of or can be resolved into black and white alone, from a mixture of which two colours it springs in an infinite series.
” —Field’s Chromatography (1856) is blowing my mind.
The fine language and discussion of color in this book is almost magical. It’s like a spell book for wielding hues and tints; something that must have been a magical talent in the mid 19th century. Field’s evokes a way of seeing the world and its color in a time before omnipresent photography, digital displays, and ink-jet printing. To communicate color you needed both spellings of grey and evokative words like “cinereous” (an ashy gray, similar Latin root to ‘cinders’).
At times Field’s discusses pigments like they’re new technology (which they essentially are at that time). Something that holds yellow in a fixed way allows new subjects to be communicated. Subjects which paintings could never previously present. Passages like these, for someone whom never imagines a hue out of reach, are spellbinding.
(via dbreunig)
I was just having a conversation the other day about grey vs gray, but we assumed it was a spelling variance between ‘The Queen’s’ and American English. This is far more awesome