Faraway, So Close

Immersion is a project by a New York Times photographer showing how focused kids can be while playing video games. (Watch the video here) Basically he has a video camera mounted behind/in the screen that the kids are playing the games on so you’re staring right at them staring at you playing the [...]

Unfortunately not until 2009.

Hopefully they’ve learned their lesson - don’t ditch Dave.
Direct Link

Watch this:

And then watch some/one of these:

And then read this if you’re still not convinced that Microsoft doesn’t get it. John (Chairman) Gruber, writer of Daring Fireball.net, always manages to write what I think I’m thinking but I have no idea how to actually write it… or actually think it.

These Simpsons characters are small and cute. And you shouldn’t order one either, let alone the whole case of 24 for $180.

I don’t think the ‘Get a Mac’ ads are particularly brilliant either, but this definitely doesn’t help sell a Windows OS to me. I guess they might be building to something with this.

Direct link
I found this from a link to 30 minutes of 90s Cartoon Openings but that’s a little too young for me - this 80s version is more my speed and also more in line with the folks that read my blog I’d guess.

Via Boingboing.net. I’m just going to basically repost it as my brain isn’t quite functioning yet this morning:
Clay Shirky’s posted a transcript of a recent talk he gave on “cognitive surplus” — the idea that automation gave us an enormous amount of free time to think and cogitate, and that sitcoms and other light [...]

Personally I still love this show and don’t think it’s jumped the shark - but I know for a lot of people this is all they come away from the show with.
Direct link

Here’s something to help you catch up if you haven’t been playing along with the first 3 seasons of one of the better shows, sci-fi or otherwise, on TV:

Direct link.
Via binarybonsai.com