Preference Personnelle
Sunday, February 16
 
Ooh, it looks like Soulseek is/was back up. If someone had said to me, 'I've got something that's going to make you hate 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' even more than you hate it already,' I'd've been skeptical. That is, I would've been before I saw the teevee ads for the video/DVD.

Yet more Joe Millionaire--Jane Big Boobs. And yet more buildings--old Victorian houses in Washington, D.C. Another pop culture collection--8 Track Heaven. And all of this via mefi, which also offers threads about Peter Singer and Rorscharch tests. The latter has a poster who suggests that the tests are stolen from William Poundstone's 'Big Secrets.' I own some of Poundstone's books, and I can believe it. He writes about, like, how magic tricks are done, and what the hardest holes in golf are.

Those Jurassic 5/MasterCard commercials--does Cut Chemist even appear in them? He didn't show up when they were on some late-night talk show, either.

Salon looks closer to bankruptcy than ever--it's really too bad. I've been reading these great books lately about the mid-to-late-'90s dotcom boom. Here's a vast generalization from those days: people don't want experts, or editors, or, uh, events explicated by educated Englishmen. They want to create content--community, and chat. CB radio and cybersex. So many 'c's, and I haven't yet said 'crap.' At the time, the conventional wisdom was that big business and mainstream media didn't get it. As sites like Salon are in fiduciary trouble while Quizilla, Livejournal, Slashdot, etc. get millions of visitors, it seems clear this is still the case.

 
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