Olympics Dive Cam and Other Camera Gizmos"Among the cool gadgets to be used by NBC in Beijing is the Dive-Cam, which consists of an HD camera that moves down a clear plastic tube, plunging alongside a diver as the athlete leaves the diving platform, and hitting the water at the precise moment as the diver."(tags: [...]
Spotted this during NBC’s Beijing Olympics coverage on Sunday night. The extra m is for Michael Phelps, I suppose.
Ed Levine reviews Spacca Napoli on Slice today. It’s a well-written piece, as always, but I’m really happy with his photos. He’s come a long way from his first foray into blog photography, and these pix are perhaps his best yet. The sausage pie above is my favorite photo from his visit. My favorite bit [...]
Masturbation at ‘New York Times’ Alleged By Super-Friendly Copy EditorAs a former copy editor, I feel I can say this: Every last single copy editor is off in some way. I've always divided them into two camps: They're either Genuinely Nutty, as the two guys referenced in this item are, or they're of the Superanal [...]
Hasn’t changed much since I was a teen-ager. [YouTube]
Billy Joel Destroys Snobby Critic “I had no idea when you interviewed me that you considered much of my later work to be ‘sentimental rubbish,’ or that you thought songs like ‘Uptown Girl’ and ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ were ‘abominations.’ And your back-slapping, buddy-buddy style of conversation betrayed no indication that you actually compared [...]
Everyone’s bookmarks for “Shopsin’s: Comical Rudeness” on DeliciousLooks like one of the Shopsins bookmarked the recent Shopsin's thread on Serious Eats. And now I'm bookmarking the bookmarkment. Whoa, how meta. I'm guessing that "shopsinc" is Charlie Shopsin.(tags: Shopsins comments meta ) Shopsin’s: Comical RudenessThis is one of my favorite threads EVER on Serious Eats.(tags: Shopsins [...]
Meet Monkey: BBC Sport’s Olympics MonkeyAn awesome promo for the BBC's Beijing Olympics coverage. Created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.(tags: video BBC Olympics TV UK )
How Good Is The Mainstream Media at Linking Out?I’m totally not surprised that Forbes is at the bottom of the U.S. mainstream media sites in terms of outbound links. It’s the site that was once described as a “pageview sweatshop.” They have no desire to send you off-site. [via Noodlepie] (tags: blogging media ) Informal [...]
I started reading Safire’s column last weekend and got a few inches in before I realized something was up. I actually liked it. So I checked the byline. Yup. Caroline Winter was filling in for the vacationing curmudgeon. She asks a question I’ve never thought of before: Why do we cap I? “Graphically, single letters [...]