December 2009
l'étoile's Best of 2009 →
stuffaboutminneapolis:
Did you know that bloggers post 900,000 articles every day, which is enough posts to fill the New York Times for 19 years? How do you pick the one you like the best? It was a toughie, but our pick for best local blog iiiiis: Stuff About Minneapolis. The blog has a simple concept: aggregate the best of the local web. The concept is not new, but what makes this blog...
LOL/OMG: CNN loves the Afternoon Delight →
New on LOL/OMG: The guys behind “MN State of Mind” get a CNN mention:http://tinyurl.com/yz7tmtx
Tweets, sexting "unfriended" in U.S. banned word... →
Whatever.
The best films of the decade - Roger Ebert's... →
I rarely disagree with Ebert, but his best film of the decade is NOT my favorite, to say the least.
l'etoile magazine blog: l'étoile's Best of 2009 →
Steve Marsh, Hilary Davis, Anthem Heart, Lookbook and many more get some love from l’étoile magazine in their Best of 2009 list:
Can Facebook, Capitol Hill be friends? Lawmakers... →
Inside the headquarters of the National Republican Congressional Committee, 25-year-old Adam Conner — registered Facebook lobbyist, poster of multiple Obama attaboys and a guy whose Facebook photo is a grizzly bear wielding two chain saws — sits to teach a course. The subject: How to use Facebook better. His student: Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.).
“Charles Barkley and Sigourney Weaver will host the first two new episodes of...”
– ‘Saturday Night Live’ announces hosts | EW.com
Letters to Walken →
“While Artist-in-Residence at Cornell’s arts dorm, I was expected to come up with stimulating art-related programs for the students to participate in. “Letters to Walken” allowed them the chance to write their yearly Christmas letter to Christopher Walken.”
“I asked myself, who is this guy named Matthew Dessem? I’d be doing reading...”
– The man who is scaling Mt. Criterion film by film :: rogerebert.com
“For the first time in its history, Facebook was the #1 most visited website in...”
– It Was a Facebook Christmas; Site Hits #1 in US For First Time
“If you thought the automakers would be leaving CES to the TV and PMP makers,...”
– Ford becomes first automaker to offer HD Radio with iTunes tagging
Movies I saw over the Holiday Weekend:
Also, We Loved 'Cache', But It Kinda Made Us...
newsweek:
Marc Bain talks to Michael Haneke:
Your movies, as you say, deal with many uncomfortable topics. But they never give the viewer a sense of justice being served. Is there an emotional reaction you want from your viewers? I try to take the spectator seriously … Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured....
Five predictions for Minnesota media in 2010
mediation:
Lots of people are doing their end-of-year round ups and predictions and all that, so I thought I’d weigh in, too.
From what I’m seeing and reading, 2010 is poised to be the year that the undead institutions of zombie economy run out of live humans and finally start to fall, and that includes some local media outlets.
Some of these predictions might seem aggressive, but when it...
Favorite shows - 2009
1. Mad Men ( Duh) 2.True blood
3. Parks and Recreation 4. 30 Rock 5. Fringe 6. Community 7. Lost 8. Modern Family 9. Community 10. Bored to Death
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My Favorite Films of 2009
Here’s a list of my 10 favorite films of 2009. In this order:
1. Star Trek - J.J. Abrams 2. Bad Lieutenant : Port of Call New Orleans - Werner Herzog 3. Moon - Duncan Jones 4. Thirst - Park Chan-Wook 5. DIstrict 9 - Neill Blomkamp 6. A Serious Man - The Coen Brothers 7. Up - Pete Docter 8. The Class - Laurent Cantet 9. Zombieland - Ruben Fleischer 10. Tyson - James Toback ...
The Worst Internet Disasters Of The Decade →
via Silicon Alley Insider..
LOL/OMG →
Today on LOL/OMG: Holiday Twitterings, This week in (uploaded) pictures, Rogue Citizen Art plans a big drop, and the “l’etoile munitions dump blog.”
Marketing: Five Best Branded-Entertainment Deals... →
Vita.mn's Hotness 2010 Contest -prizes
Winners and runners-up will be featured in our special Valentine’s Day issue. In addition, one female and one male winner will each receive a $500 Mall of America gift card, a one-night stay at the Graves 601 Hotel in Minneapolis, $250 to reVamp! SalonSpa, a $100 gift certificate to OM Restaurant, and an unlimited annual spa pass at Planet Beach ($840 value).
The best foreign films of 2009 - Roger Ebert's... →
I have some catching up to do, although I did see Gomorrah (tonight actually) and it is fantastic.
Video Interview: Biz Stone →
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Twitter’s Biz Stone Looks Back at 2009 and Forward to 2010: We’re Now an Information Network, People!
Technology predictions for 2010 - Telegraph →
“Perhaps, faced by seemingly endless war in the Middle East and the threat of...”
– Film: review of the decade - Telegraph
Twitter / @HATProject/HomeAlone →
Check out the Home Alone Twitter Project
Top 10 key films of the noughties | Film |... →
Apple - Movie Trailers - Cop Out →
“This is police brutality!”. “Not yet.”
5QQ: Rex Sorgatz | Columnists | Mediaite →
Rex Sorgatz talks about FourSquare, The Hills, BNO News, Tumblr, and Megantereons. Hey Rex, I sleep on my Iphone too!
