March 2009
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WatchInappropriate DirectHD Commercials
The first and third are so very, very good.
VW Kills Rabbit Name, Again →
I’m sad about this because I think Rabbit is a better name and brand. I have a Rabbit, and I love it. The logo is great, and I don’t know a single person who golfs… the name Golf has always seemed strange to me. Granted, I don’t know anyone who is a rabbit either, but. (via airbag)
Shawn Morrison: In your Prettify post you said "good-send." Isn't it godsend?
Me: What a fucking weird double typo. Yes, fixed.
Shawn Morrison: Same sentence: "has made queueing up a week worth of posts..." Week's worth?
Me: Fixed.
Shawn Morrison: You can be so obsessive over grammar that when you make mistakes I tend to question if I know the right thing or not. Clearly in this case, I'm simply a better human than you.
Shawn Morrison: I win!
Shawn Morrison: And there you are, sitting in your chair, a total douche.
Me: Oh, I'm douching all right. Or is it "alright"? Now you have me questioning everything!
Shawn Morrison: This is what you get for waking up in the AM.
Me: Yeah, really.
Shawn Morrison: So much for my supremacy. Just poured more coffee into my mouth than it would hold. Humbling.
Conversation Between Me and My Body
My body: Hey, got a sec?
Me: Yeah, what's up?
My body: You know how lately you've gained some weight and your sleeping schedule is bad and you don't have a lot of energy?
Me: Yeah. It's annoying.
My body: Well, we've been talking and... We think you should stop eating pizza every other day.
Me: What?
My body: Yeah.
Me: How about instead of that you just do a better job at metabolizing it? And give me more energy?
My body: It doesn't work that way.
Me: Well, it should.
My body: That's a stupid thing to say. Also: Perhaps we could start running again? Remember how good we felt when we used to run regularly?
Me: If I start running again can we eat pizza?
My body: No. The pizza thing has to stop. Oh, and don't get us started on cereal at 4AM. Do you know what happens when you eat carbs every night at 4AM?
Me: No. I shouldn't have to know. You should just take care of it.
My body: It's becoming clear you don't know much about us.
Me: Fine. I'll cut down on pizza and late-night cereal. And I'll start running.
My body: Thanks. Trust us, you'll be happier. Oh, and one more thing.
Me: Yeah?
My body: About all that whiskey you drank at SXSW...
Me: Fuck off.
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21 Essential iPhone Apps with Sexy Interfaces →
Ego is included in this list of “sexy” iPhone apps, which is awesome, because it’s in great company. (via davidkaneda)
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State of the Union: Prettify*
I’ve been running Prettify since January, and I’ve settled into it pretty well, posting nearly every weekday the last three months. Tumblr’s queue feature was a godsend and has made queueing up a week’s worth of posts much more manageable. When I was in Austin last week Prettify kept churning along uninterrupted (in fact, during that week some of my favorite items yet were...
“Ugh, now I have to recreate this whole damn thing, all because I’m the...”
– Shawn, complaining while trying to work with someone else’s Photoshop file
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This Month's Music Purchases
Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective Blood Bank by Bon Iver The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists Here We Go Magic by Here We Go Magic Grow Up And Blow Away by Metric Immolate Yourself by Telefon Tel Aviv
I’ve just started listening to The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists and I’m already enamored by it. I have a feeling it will require many, many listens before I...
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The reason Apple wants to approve applications before their release is to protect customers from applications that could be harmful (could an app purposefully erase your address book?) or crash-prone or have impossibly confusing user interfaces. Or, at least, one would assume that is the reason. But then one takes a tour of the app store and finds plenty of applications fitting those categories,...
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Forever's Not So Long Technical Information
Since releasing our latest short, we’ve been asked many times which camera and hardware we used. Here’s what we made the film with, in all its video-nerd glory:
Shot on a Panasonic HVX-200a with a Cinevate 35mm lens adapter
We used the Nikon 50mm 1.8 and 28mm 2.8 primes only
Edited in Final Cut Pro and Pro Tools (we used FCP for the color and saturation changes as well)
With the...
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WatchForever’s Not So Long (available in HD)
George discovers that the end of the world is the perfect time to lose everything.
I’m pleased to announce the first public screening of our newest short film. Head over to Vimeo to see it in gorgeous HD quality.
Written & Directed by Shawn Morrison, produced by Garrett Murray. Starring Garrett Murray and Marielena Logsdon. With Debbie...
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Southside — Moby feat. Gwen Stefani
The Gwen...
js_twitter_flickr — Display your last Tweet/Flickr... →
I get a ton of emails asking how I’m including the Twitter and Flickr info on the top of my site, so I released the code that does it. It’s a simple PHP file that creates JavaScript which you include in your site and then style. Takes only a few seconds to set up.
Includes an example file with some sample CSS.
I'm Terrible with Email
Me: I love that I'm responding to email from A YEAR AGO.
Me: Super casually. Like it hasn't been a year.
Shawn Morrison: Nice.
Me: One guy: "I'm currently on fire, what do I do!!!"
Me: Me, one year later: "Oh, stop, drop and roll."
On the Subject of Internet Acronyms
Shawn Morrison: Also, what is IIRC? If I remember correctly?
Me: Yeah, sorry. I've started using IIRC and OOC recently because both are a PITA the write out.
Me: (hah)
Shawn Morrison: Weird that IIRC comes up enough to justify an acronym.
Me: Yeah, that one is weird, but I do feel like I say it a lot on the internet.
Shawn Morrison: I hate "PITA" because it has no teeth and is bread.
Shawn Morrison: Often simply "pain" is just as good.
Me: And apparently OOC actually stands for out of character?
Me: But I use it for out of curiosity. I want to make a global push that it stand for out of curiosity.
Me: Because how frequently does out of character come up??
Me: I say OOC all the time to people on the internet. Although it's usually before I direct a veiled insult.
Me: "OOC, why did you write such poor CSS for this site?"
Me: "OOC, what exactly were you going for when you put that outfit together?"
Shawn Morrison: I use it for "Only Ovarian Cancer" but it doesn't come up that much.
Me: Haha
Me: "We were going to hang out with Sally, but she's sick again. Oh, but don't worry, it's OOC."
Me: "IIRC that's super curable."
Me: "But chemo is a PITA."
Opera Fingertouch →
When Fingertouch detects multiple links or selectable elements in close proximity to one another, it displays a larger version of the items in an overlay screen so you can more easily select the item you want. (See the demo video.)
This is a neat idea, although it’s unclear if this always happens even if you zoom in. If so, it might be a little frustrating since it requires two clicks to...
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WatchMRTV Sketch: Shirts!
Shawn pitches Garrett on the benefits of MRTV shirts. That’s right, we’ve got shirts for sale and they’re extra special. Support the show, buy a shirt!
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MRPC Episode: New Stuff to the Max! →
We’re back, baby! And we have shirts for sale, tons of new stuff to talk about, and plenty of ridiculous things to say.
We have been creating stuff for the last six months and we finally get to start releasing it all to you. First up is this episode and shirts, but there is a lot more coming.
Yeah, that’s right: Shirts!
