If #FiscalCliff was a fictional character, he’d be sitting next to Norm in the Cheers bar. And robbing the place.
Month: December 2012
Interesting advice: “If you’re young,don’t give to charity.” rationalconspiracy.com/2012/12/29/if-…
Writer Peter David has had a stroke: zite.to/W9CsmQ
15 things overachievers do: blog.penelopetrunk.com/2012/12/25/15-…
Have an iPad? Then get my second book of photography, Reflections of Sydney, free! itunes.apple.com/us/book/reflec…
Here’s some New Years Eve Eve fun: the blooper reel for #StarTrekTNG season 2 youtube.com/watch?v=7_nVEm…
Will 2013 be the year #TwinPeaks is revived!? zite.to/UBQGkv ME: @mfrost11 If you did, I’d appreciate it.
Don’t forget, only 360 shopping days left before Christmas!
Shopping list for New Years Eve: Fireworks, Cheesecake, Champagne, and a copy of Nell on DVD.
The Top 5 Website UX Trends of 2012 bit.ly/VbNw3X
New Arrested Development Set For May 4th, Episode Titles Revealed! bleedingcool.com/2012/12/29/new…
Movies, Neglected Cinema
All That Jazz faces death with a smile and a dance number
I had a debate with some people on Twitter this week when I noted the next movie in my Neglected Cinema series would be All That Jazz. “You have a different definition of neglected than I do,” one person commented.…
My Quora answers, UX Articles
What would it take to make a mobile banking application outstanding?
Joseph Dickerson Well, my "day job" is designing mobile and online banking apps, so I've spent some time thinking about this question (a couple of years, in fact). The most important thing I've learned (through various iterations, user tests, and…
Movies, Neglected Cinema
Real Life is a brilliant prescient satire of reality TV
Albert Brooks is psychic. I mean, how else can your explain his first feature film, Real Life? The movie that predicted reality TV in such a biting way that you would think it was made today instead of thirty-plus years…
TV
Video: The day I chatted with Dawn Wells for The Huffington Post
I got to chat with Dawn Wells, the actress who played Mary Ann on the classic TV show Gilligan’s Island, on The Huffington Post website yesterday. Talk about a sentence I never thought I’d write… It was supposed to be…
Geek, Movies, Neglected Cinema, TV, Twin Peaks
It’s not Twin Peaks, but Storyville is a remarkable underrated film
“The past isn’t dead.” Revisiting well-remembered films in this Neglected Cinema series is like a crapshoot. Sometimes movies I loved on first viewing I find merely likeable, and other times I discover old favorites are, with the passage of time,…