It’s not the Internet, which was developed under the direction of Bob Taylor. It’s not Xerox PARC, where the GUI, Ethernet, and laser printing were developed under the guidance of the same Bob Taylor, and it’s not the Wordwide Web, developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. It’s just another Web site. A Web site that only now is going to have its own data centers. It’s Facebook.
Does the human interest story behind the start of Facebook, and the fact that it’s current and has 20-something appeal, make it more worthy of a major motion picture than the creation of the Internet and the WWW? Doesn’t matter, because the movie The Social Network is coming…
I like Facebook. Has it changed my life? No, WordPress has had a much bigger effect on me personally. I’ve been on the Internet from home since early 1994, and Facebook came along much too late in my online experience for me to be awed by it.
By the way, the version of radiohead’s “creep” that’s heard in that movie trailer is by the Belgian singing group the Scala & Kolacny Brothers Choir, who I featured here a couple of years ago.
Gizmodo had an item about something they spotted on Boing Boing — a test made by Kodak in 1922 with Kodachrome movie film. This is a nice follow-up to the post about color photography in Russia during the previous decade.
People liked seeing images of women, even way back then? Amazing!
This morning I was on the porch stretching out, listening to NPR, when the radio suddenly shut off. A fraction of a second later I heard a BOOM from up the street.
The demise of the American runner was hastened by the success of the first running boom in the 1970s and the embrace of running as a “pastime” rather than a sport.
Stracher has some impressive finish times in races, but this attitude he’s copping won’t win him any fans. Yes, U.S. runners are pokier than they were in 1979, and that’s because they/we are a lot OLDER than they were in 1979, and there’s no next generation in their teens or twenties that’s catching the running bug. But it makes no sense to blame the recreational and/or average runners who provide the money to support all of the road races, and the running shoe industry.
I’m scanning through as many episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents as I can before Netflix pulls the series from its Watch Instantly selections tomorrow. Season three includes an installment with Dolores Hart, fresh from appearing with Elvis in Loving You, playing a seductive — and, I infer, pregnant — college coed.
Elvis must have liked Dolores, because she was also in King Creole. What makes Dolores particularly interesting, and unusual, is that at age 25 she left Hollywood and became a nun, which she remains to this day.
Hey, wait a sec’… the Library of Congress bought those photographic plates back in ‘48?? That was only a year before the Soviets had their first atomic bomb test! Some Commie sympathizer in the LoC wasted American post-war taxpayer money on Russian photos?? I’m outraged!
