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i will off to ireland it just a few days to shoot a documentary on gaelic games. the documentary is sponsored by an at&t “new media” fellowship and was organized by the watson institute at brown. i’m thrilled to be off to ireland (it is a birthright trip in many ways) but i am almost [...]

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in the spirit of christmas, and the fact that i just completed my gift wrapping (yes! best wrapping-EVER), here’s a short history of xmas in celluloid.
1898

the most interesting thing about this short clip, is that santa claus carries a tree the whole time (wtf?) i was assuming that he was bringing it to the kids, [...]

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i’ve told this story before. often in fact. but this is certainly the most succinct telling i ever managed.
after starting at the berkman center for internet society where i’ve been working this summer, i was approached to tell this tale for the record as a part of the digital natives project. i was more than [...]

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i frickin’ love tina fey. and here’s why: she’s wicked f!@#in’ funny.
and she’s a chick.
and she’s kinda got the sexy librarian thing going on. a little bit.
not really.
but really, she’s wicked funny.

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omg. OMG. O.M.F-ing.G.
matt stone and trey parker have done it again. as the creators and directors of south park, these two gents have seen, made, and manufactured more than a lion’s share (which i’ve always assumed means alot) of controversy. but almost all of that (their work with scientology and mormonism being notable exceptions) pale [...]

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one question: who the hell would drink this?
besides hipsters that is. and idiots.

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also fresh from youtube land, is this short clip from an epic Chapelle Show skit I caught the other day. it was part of a series on secretly racist famous animals. what really makes this skit work tho, is chapelle wearing some outrageous hat, and talking with a lisp as a cigarette dangles in his [...]

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just saw this on tv.
literally, i was like, “…wait… what?”

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