How’d I miss this? Here’s an article – Exposed — from the May 25th, 2008 edition of the New York Times Magazine about one blogger’s experiences and the lines that you can cross while writing blogging, both personally and professionally. It covers some issues to keep in mind when writing in a forum that can be accessed far and wide.
[This article was also posted to my tech blog, Global Nerdy.]
In striking contrast with American CEOs like those at the “Big Three” auto manufacturers, Japan Airlines’ CEO takes the bus to work, has his desk in the “bullpen” with the rest of the employees and slashed his salary to below that of his pilots (he’s currently paid about US$90,000):
While I believe that airline seats should be widened a little – even people of “average” build find them a bit narrow – I think that the Canadian Supreme Court’s recent ruling that the obese have the right to two airline seats for the price of one on flights within Canada is wrong. Just as airline cargo space has a value and you have to pay accordingly if you bring on more than the standard weight allotment, airline seats have value and you should have to pay for the seats you use.
I love this video, which is made up of bits from the trailer for the upcoming J.J. Abrams-produced Star Trek movie and the theme from the original Beverley Hills 90210:
It’s only natural that a J.J. Abrams movie would mesh so well with 90210. Prior to Fringe, Cloverfield, Lost and Alias, he was behind another overwrought teen drama: Felicity.
Back when we were in Crazy Go Nuts University, my friend/housemante/bandmate George and I made it a point to watch performances by our favourite bands to see what live performance tricks we could borrow from them. This video above shows a particular favourite: Nirvana’s performance of Lithium at the 1992 MTV Music Awards, back when MTV still meant "Music Television".
Their performance in the video is merely okay. What’s notable about this performance is the “gong show” it descends into near the very end, at the four-minute mark on the video. At that point, bassist Krist Novoselic tossed his bass guitar high up into the air and then appeared to catch it on the return trip – with his head.
The band wrapped up the number as quickly as possible and Kurt Cobain proceeded to trash the drum kit, while Dave Grohl taunted Axl Rose with a sarcastic “Hi, Axl!” greeting over and over.
In this week’s edition of Seattle Weekly, Krist Novoselic explains what happens in an article titled What Really Happened at the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards.
Comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
My friend Miss Fipi Lele finds all sorts of great and weird stuff, the photo below included:
What photo can’t be improved by some old-school Oompa-Loompas?
See if you can come up with a caption for this photo and post it in the comments.
My caption would be: “Ain’t nothin’ like the Queen’s Homecoming street party!”