Feltron Biennial Report »
Nicholas Felton has released the latest version of his “annual reports” - a collection of all the data that makes up his life. As someone who has trouble keeping track of the movies he’s watched, I’m very jealous of his ability to consistently keep track of this stuff.
After the internet design community started spooging over these things a few years ago, he set up daytum, a website to help people collect these various discrete bits of information and to present them in a “Feltron Annual Report” kind of way. And yet according to the “about” page of the report, (and even according to his account page on daytum), he doesn’t use it himself. I dunno, I just found that interesting.
# Feb 27, 2012No Content Found
Spielberg, fresh off Jaws, watching the 1976 Oscar nominations.
“I didn’t get it! I wasn’t nominated! I got beaten out by Fellini!”
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If you’ve got 35 minutes to spare, you could do a lot worse than spending it in the company of Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer, talking about graphic adventures.
Debbie Harry and Andre the Giant
All I need is a giant 70s ‘fro and this could be a picture of me and my wife heading out on a Saturday night.
# Feb 23, 2012The myth of the eight-hour sleep »
Scientists are arguing that the 8-hour sleep is unnatural, and that humans naturally fall into a more segmented sleep cycle. In other words, I should be treating every day like I treat Sunday, with a pre-sleep nap.
# Feb 22, 2012Gamification
The problem with Gamification is that it tries to solve a problem that doesn't exist. We already have a universal points system, across all aspects of life, that represents status and is redeemable for real world prizes. **It's called "money."**# Feb 22, 2012
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Double Fine are using Kickstarter to fund their new adventure game. 140% funded in 24 hours.
Seriously, this is monumental.
Fountain - A Markup Language for Screenwriting »
Back when we announced FDX Reader, I got a lot of emails asking, ‘When are you going to make a screenwriting app?” Answer: Today. My hope is that we just made a thousand. Fountain turns every text editor into a screenwriting app.
This means flexibility. This means genuine collaboration - people in geographically different locations can edit the same Google Doc at the same time. This means I can write a screenplay on my phone.
This means I don’t really have any excuse not to write any more.
# Feb 9, 2012El Wingador »
Errol Morris Op-Doc on Bill ‘El Wingador’ Simmons. I love that he has a cross-stitch by his front door saying “NOTHING EXCEEDS LIKE EXCESS”.
# Feb 8, 2012