Dylan Tweney

The problem with Marie Antoinette is that it ends before the title character is executed. After watching that much profligate waste for two hours, I could understand the peasants’ rage perfectly. And by waste, I don’t just mean the French court’s–I mean Sofia Coppola’s. What a way to blow a bunch of

Hard to tell if this is serious or a joke but boiled down (“promote, promote, promote”) it makes sense: 3 business models that always work for everybody

“I will stave off any more comments and just direct you to scoop up the book. It is like buying tiny contact lenses for the entirety of your perception, lenses made of sugar glass and strands of silk.” How could you resist buying a $7 book when the reviewer concludes this way? Dragonfly on a […]

I found out just last week that the poet Carl Thayler died last year. Thayler is a thorny, difficult poet, committed to the precision and beauty of carefully-chosen words. His poetry is dense, often allusive, and steeped in historical events and figures that many people now are not intimately famili

The SDForum event I spoke at on Wednesday was fairly interesting. I got to discuss the future of new media with Anil Dash of Six Apart, Theresa Carey of Barron’s, and Ramneek Bhasin of Mobio Networks. The moderator was Steve Bengston of PriceWaterhouseCooper. It was a lively discussion that focused

Great photos of a bizarre Japanese theme park with dioramas showing the various stations of Buddhist hell. Juergen Specht – Ojoyushu

“When man invented the bicycle, he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man’s brain that

BT has a phone conferencing system called “MeetMe.” I was rendered nearly speechless with giggles when the automated system greeted me with a chirpy female voice saying, “Welcome to BTMeetMe!”

The Washington Post’s largest driver of website traffic is Drudge, according to the paper’s editor. That’s impressive clout for Matt Drudge, given that many bloggers regard him as a has-been. I suppose he’s not technically a blogger, either. He doesn’t post stories in reverse chronological order, th

“… if everybody really did read and write and listen to a ton of poetry in a single month, American productivity would go down the drain, and our economy’s already got enough trouble as it is.” Can Reading Poetry Ruin Your Career?

You can finally stop converting all of your GIF files to PNG: the last Unisys patents have expired. GIF is NOW finally free

Talk about a hard knock life: He spent life picking himself up (via null)