October 2008
18 posts
Feature: Tim Hwang Drinks The Entire Berkman...
Since becoming a newly-minted full time employee of the Berkman Center for Internets and Society, I’ve become obsessed with the fascinatingly ungreen and terrifyingly advanced Keurig brand line of products that dispense coffee from those plastic containers that I can only assume are filled with magical pixie dust. Luckily, Berkman boasts a huge number of flavors, and I figured that...
September 2008
22 posts
WatchBest Instructable ever.
Winning comment: “Wow, you can kill some one!”
The LBT Project: I Wish There Was More Dino...
The U.S. Bureau of Fabulous Bitches was directed in the Fall of 2008 by the federal government to conduct an ongoing investigation into the scope of the Land Before Time (LBT) animated series. Our department is forging ahead on this by watching all thirteen movies in the LBT continuity. This is likely to be followed by reviewing the entire discography, fanfic community, and television show. You...
Why The Land Before Time Post Is Late →
Because I’m blogging about serious stuff, like, uh, Internet and Democracy. Also, there’s been like a suprising crapload of stuff written about LBT (???).
<3, Tim
The American Psycho Musical →
You can’t tell me this isn’t a good idea.
Featuring the hit single, “I Have To Return (Some Videotapes)”
Carving Out A Free Culture Agenda
What you see above, thanks to the steadfast picture-taking abilities of the talented Fred B, is perhaps the most awesome picture ever taken in the history of the Free Culture movement. It’s Henrik Moltke and Fritz Attaway, respectively co-director of the fantastic documentary Good Copy Bad Copy and vice-president of the MPAA, shaking hands after a screening.
Totally brilliant. And, as...
“oreilly, tim (exclam.): An exclamation of skepticism suggesting that the...”
– One of my (modest) contributions to David Weinberger’s awesome Internet Lexicon Project. Read more about it at his blog here.
Watchtimdiana:
This Week on the Kimball Kimball Kimball Show:
1) Ice Cream
2) Embarassing Moments In Bathroom Drainage
3) Being On A Boat, And Hating Everyone
Hell yeah, we’re back with a wild new season. Stay tuned to the Tim and Diana show.
Brand Tags →
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(above) a common tag to the brand “American Idol”
Saw this last night at the incredibly swanky Pecha Kucha Boston from one of the presenters. It’s essentially a little tag cloud generator that asks users to type in whatever first pops into their head when they see a brand, in an effort to get at what that brand means to people. Beyond having a kind of fun...
The Land Before Time Project: Introduction
My fellow Americans. Wait…is this thing on? Oh, okay…right…
My fellow Americans, after many months of reflection and consultations with experts in the field, the US Bureau of Fabulous Bitches has ascertained that a multi-month project to survey the entire filmography of the Land Before Time series is not only wanted, but necessary to the protection of all active fabulous...
"The Hottest Band In The Country Is About To Take...
So was at the Berkman Center’s fellows hour today, and Ethan Zuckerman (not expectedly) gave an amazingly badass talk in his usual amazing style. In addition to getting right to the meat of it and engaging with the cultural interfaces emerging on the web (while being vaguely a paean to his 1980s childhood), it managed to cover all the cultural weirdness/ethical quandaries going on with...
From The Not Surprising Department: Gallup... →
What’s remarkable actually isn’t the 70%, but the 12% of Americans who actually think the economic situation is actually improving since, oh, I don’t know, this. Numbers aren’t out yet that are inclusive of yesterday — but we’ll have to see how it goes.
More than one in ten!
“If you ask me for really dangerous ideological films, for ideology at its...”
– -Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher (New York Mag)
Thanks To Cat Scharon for being remarkable.
Old People Perform Sex Pistols →
From the remarkable Mustachefish (who sells this amazing zoetrope dress I would wear if I were a girl).
Life is full of worthwhile things.
Big Advances In Internet Technology →
Now you can add cowbell to any damn audio file you like.
CHRIST ON A CRACKER GUYS ARE YOU HAPPY NOW
I Love The '08s: Cuil and Beating Google
Wow, man, Cuil, remember Cuil? Those were good times.
Since it’s much hyped release in late July, the “The Google Killer” Cuil has seemingly racked up nothing but a series of ridiculously bad, pun based headlines, a healthy pool of pundit haterade, and the worrying news that the engine’s indexing might be actively killing off websites. There’s been some...
The Twinkie Offense
Update: a few weeks back I mentioned my ambition to watch every single entry in the now disturbingly expansive Land Before Time series. I’ve started the effort in earnest, and now can happily (?) report making it to #4 — “Journey Through the Mists.” It’s painful, but I do what I must. Will be blogging it in a weekly feature soon, stay tuned.
After a brief...
Hannah Montana Has A Magic 8-Ball →
What a bizarre cross-brand.
Reports Of Our Tardiness →
…were not exaggerated. Sorry about the huge hiatus in posting, loyal readers, the USBFB has been swamped lately moving it’s branch offices from San Francisco to Boston, getting SF-ROFLThing off the ground last week (the link above), and getting set up with some new contracts at our new digs.
Even worse, we were considering nixing the USBFB name, but we decided: no. National Security...