- YouTube presents “Brokeback to the future” Okay now this is just genuinely awesome almost beyond the counting of the ways. Obviously it helps if you’ve seen Brokeback Mountain, were obsessed about the Back to the Future trilogy and had a bit of a crush on Michael J Fox…
- 2005 Venture Capital Web 2.0 investment statistics: US entrepreneurs raise ten times more than Europe I don’t know how much faith to put in these numbers, but the truthiness of them is beyond reproach, and that’s got to count for something, right? European start-up and innovation seems generally pretty troubling to me right about now…
- Dan Futterman’s page on IMDB Dan Futterman was the cute American in Shooting Fish, the son in the Birdcage and object of a minor crush of mine. I’m stunned and impressed to see that he’s also the Academy Award-nominated writer of Capote…
- Find the missing Keynote 2 animations in Keynote 3 Apparently Keynote 3 removed several of the transitions that were in the earlier product, including “Burn” which was Simon’s favourite. It turns out that they’re all there in the new version, just turned off. Very weird / cool.
- There’s a … specialist … painting representing scenes from Brokeback Mountain for sale on ebay at the moment… It’s actually not that bad. They were aiming for $50 to start off with, but now the price is up to $255. If we make it prominent enough, then I think one of their agents will buy if for their office.
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja He’s an Irish Ninja whose parents are ashamed of him because he became a doctor instead of joining the Yakuza. What’s not to like?!
- Pink’s new video is a pretty entertaining tirade in favour of smart, ambitious women It’s really cool to see some positive reinforcement in the mass media for a version of womanhood that isn’t about tight clothes, booty, bling and boobs.
- Mekwa & Beam Station Project A pretty fascinating presentation expressing a different kind of personalised toy avatar widget that sits on phones and can travel around the world. I don’t know if I’ve explained it particularly well…
- Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches Pretty fascinating, if creepy, story about how some species of wasp brainwash and then control roaches which they then steer back to their lairs, laying eggs in them while they’re still alive…
- Metacritic’s list of lists reveals US film critics’ 2005 Top Tens (and usefully aggregates them) There’s so much more value in aggregation than people realise. All of metacritic could be rebuilt in a bottom-up kind of way using a few simple microformat style things and some decent aggregation tech…
- Alongside the Metacritic Critics lists, they’ve also compiled a full list of 2005 Film Awards & Nominations Good to see Brokeback Mountain doing so well in that selection as well…
- Could Pledgebank help Wikipedia? Thoughts: (1) Pledgebank is about increasing the perceived effect of ones actions by connecting it to a larger purpose (2) Wikipedia already seems to have that mechanism but (3) I like the idea of building social processes alongside wikipedia a lot…
- Omnidrive ploughs straight into one of my areas of fascination – how you could make all storage social I don’t know what I think about the implementation, and of course one major problem is that I can’t easily test it.
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