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June 7, 2007
Travel Day Links
Getting ready to drive over to hang out with George for a couple of days, but before I leave, here are a few of my late morning coffee reads and viewing tips:
Via David, a short film about time travel! The Timebox Twins! is a fun short video directed by Tipper Newton and starring Newton and Ice Cream Floats bandmate and LOL director Joe Swanberg. In the vid, a brother and sister discover the "timeboxes" that keep schools on schedule. Steal four of them and you can build a time machine. Fun stuff.
Jason and Nikki both comment on the recent appeals court ruling that states that the FCC overreached in its excessive fines for "fleeting obscenities." As Jason points out, the harsh punishments are a product of the post-nipplegate era and focused on unscripted content (Bono's off-the-cuff remark that winning a Golden Globe was "fucking brilliant!"), which the appeals court ruled does not fit into the category of obscenity. Jason's post has the added bonus of an audio version of George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" routine.
Finally, via the comments to Sam's post on self-Googling, I learned about a new documentary on the topic called Google Me, which judging by the Google iconography was made with Google's cooperation. I'm certainly intrigued by the topic of naming and identity--as my post on Alan Berliner's The Sweetest Sound indicates--but I do have some questions about what it means to identify Google as a stand in for community or unity as this film seems to do (as the trailer and the film's description imply).
Comments are still broken. Hopefully they'll be running soon.
Posted by chuck at June 7, 2007 1:13 PM
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