Category Out on the Internet
Intriguing New Ad Campaign for Captain Morgan Rum: A Pirate’s Life for Me!
I recently had a chance to view the first ad in the new ad campaign for Captain Morgan’s Rum, “A Pirate’s Life for Me!”. The production values and sheer effort (there were over 450 extras involved and they built a replica of Captain Morgan’s ship, The Satisfaction) that went into making this 60 second ad […]
House of Shorts – The Reward
http://houseofshorts.com/thereward/ This is probably one of the best animated short films I’ve seen in a while. Treasure, adventure and friendship are all here in a ten minute package.
Proper Responses to Women (People)
Two good observations from John Scalzi on responding to women. Whatever I already made this observation over at Twitter, but it’s worth repeating here, as it has relevance to several current events: If your response to a woman doing something you don’t like is to threaten her with rape and death, she’s not the problem. […]
House of Shorts – AT-AT Day Afternoon
http://houseofshorts.com/at-at-day-afternoon/ This was cute though I seem to think that I’ve seen this same film somewhere else before. I’d be curious to find out how the film-makers managed to animate the AT-AT in such a realistic way.
House of Shorts: Goodnight, Sweet PakMan — Disturbingly Good
Goodnight, Sweet PakMan — Disturbingly Good I’m not much of a fan of Tarantino or homages to his work but this one’s quite good.
On Time (on House of Shorts)
On Time (on House of Shorts) A man gains a way to see 30 seconds in the future, acts on his new knowledge, and gains (and loses) something…
Killing the Myth of Speed Equalling Poor Writing
Killing the Myth of Speed Equalling Poor Writing Apparently writing 250 words per day works out to around 90000 words a year which is an average paperback novel. Writing 250 words takes about 15 minutes so you could be a novel a year author by writing 15 minutes a day. It’s probably an oversimplification or at least […]
Can Ideas Rot? [Lifehacker]
Can Ideas Rot? [Lifehacker] “I have a new rule that I’m making for myself and holding others to: If you haven’t worked on something in the past two weeks, you’re not allowed to talk about it.” Steve Corona makes this bold statement at the beginning of his post on Lifehacker. I guess I’ve been trying to respond […]
The Emporium of Lost Thoughts 