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Yes. Yes, I did. What a strange and wonderful world.
Created with the amazing toonlet. Comics are for everyone.
I’ve been posting a lot of videos/images lately. I don’t know why that is. Probably laziness. In any case, this video for Oren Lavie’s Her Morning Elegance is terrific. His website for the album is pretty cool too.
If it kills me, it will probably be worth it.

Here’s the story behind The Bacon Explosion. It definitely needs some cheese added to it though.
I can’t get over how great this NFB film from 1953 looks. Though it’s in black and white, it looks like it was shot yesterday.
The National Film Board is one of our great assets, and I’m so pleased that they’re getting all of these terrific films online. (Choose High Quality for best results, though even standard quality looks pretty damn good. Did I mention this film is over 50 years old?)
From the Freakonomics Blog today:
In a plot twist worthy of Lost, it turns out that TV commercials aren’t obnoxious interruptions after all. They’re helpful interruptions, which increase your enjoyment of TV by periodically reminding you how much you’d rather be watching your favorite show.
That’s according to a new study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, which found that commercials restore a sense of novelty to TV programming by breaking up the cycle which we become bored with following what’s on the screen.
In one of several experiments, the study’s authors screened the sitcom Taxi for two groups. One group saw an episode with commercial interruptions, and the other saw an episode with no interruptions. Those who saw Taxi with commercial breaks enjoyed it more, by a decisive margin.
Please Embrace This Commercial Interruption - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com.
I find this an amazing and totally unexpected result. I wonder if the study can be reproduced, or tried with other forms of media.
Felix Salmon takes Henry Blodget to town over the Silicon Valley Insider’s mostly stupid advice on what to do with the New York Times.
How Not to Fix the New York Times - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com.