I’m a big fan of Donald and I’d love to see him get Spiderman (as well as some side campains) but america is still so bad at talking about race that there is an odd dialog going on.
The big question seems to be “why go black?” and “does it make a difference?“. These questions seem to just be a failure of imagination to me. It’s as if people are expecting the exact same movie with just a black lead. And to me that would be a tragedy.
Race matters and should have an effect on the story. Different cultures have different perspectives and viewing those through a prism of a well known tale is a great way to talk about those experiences. This is even more interesting as comics have oftain been a haven of white only characters and have made grave missteps trying to represent other cultures. Hollywood is obviously not the kindest to other cultures but still comes off as worldly compared to comic books.
I hope Donald gets the role and I hope it had a meaningful impact on the story. I hope it’s a success and has broader impact on comics and how we view races other then whites as lead roles.
This is just a fun question that you used to be able to easily answer on youtube. But it seems some time in Nov 09 it was removed. but while it seems to be gone there still seems to be a way to access the number for the time being.
- go here: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/USERNAME?v=2 and replace USERNAME with your username
- Search for videoWatchCount
kind of a pain but hopefully that data will stay in the feed. We know google is tracking us all very closely. we might as well have access to that data.
Keri was looking through her email and found this the other day.
From: Stefan Hayden < hayden2@tcnj.edu >
Date: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 7:05 PM
Subject: join thefacebook
To: k~~~@gmail.com
Stefan Hayden has invited you to join thefacebook.com, where
you and Stefan can see each other's friends and many other members
of your college community.
Thefacebook is an online resource that connects you to other people
within your college through courses, organizations, and friends.
Thefacebook is for people who want to see a universal facebook at
their college, and who want to share information with the rest of the
community.
Once you register for Thefacebook, you can browse through everyone's
profiles and even create your own if you'd like.
To register, follow the link below:
http://www.thefacebook.com/register.php
in 2007 I complained that the Gmail Contact manager was sadly under powered. Happily it steadily improved and by the time the G1 phone came out it was really robust.
Today they finally spun it out of gmail and it’s now a standalone app. And at this point it’s pretty full featured. You can merge contacts, add tons of meta info, create groups. They’ve added everything I have wanted and now any new feature will just be icing.
The only complaint I do have is more about the G1 which currently has no built in use for the groups feature and I wish it did as it would be a little easier to find things without having to bust out the keyboard to search.
Chipotle updates logo. A minor improvement.
It seems the Urban Dictionary has names in it for seemingly no good reason: Stefan
They always have such nice interviews.
News of Zoe Deschanel and Ben Gibbard getting married have hit the hipster world pretty hard:
y’know which bands really suck? Postal Service and Deathcab. they both suck a lot. like: a lot. they are worse than a million children crying. Barack was full of shit. hope is dead.
ironically i cannot listen to either one in my bummed out state BECAUSE THEY WILL MAKE ME MORE BUMMED OUT NOW. wtf.
-bonerparty
Alt + Shift + Ctrl + K 
I’m a big fan of Donald and I’d love to see him get Spiderman (as well as some side campains) but america is still so bad at talking about race that there is an odd dialog going on.