Via YouTube. Because I realize that for those that don’t use a feed reader, this breaks my layout. Oh, you ever growing video dimensions…

His List (with minor corrections):

• Battle Royale (Dir. Kinji Fukasaku)
• Anything Else (Dir. Woody Allen)
• Audition (Dir. Takashi Miike)
• The Blade (Dir. Tsui Hark)
• Boogie Nights (Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
• Dazed & Confused (Dir. Richard Linklater)
• Dogville (Dir. Lars von Trier)
• Fight Club (Dir. David Fincher)
• Friday (Dir. F Gary Gray)
• The Host (Dir. Bong Joon Ho)
• The Insider (Dir. Michael Mann)
• Joint Security Area (Dir. Park Chan Wook)
• Lost In Translation (Dir. Sophia Coppola)
• The Matrix (Dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski)
• Memories of Murder (Dir. Bong Joon Ho)
• Police Story 3 (Dir. Stanley Tong)
• Shaun of the Dead (Dir. Edgar Wright)
• Speed (Dir. Jan de Bont)
• Team America (Dir. Trey Parker)
• Unbreakable (Dir. M. Night “Shamalamadingdong”)

My Notes:

He considers Battle Royal #1, and the rest from #2 to #20 are all in alphabetical order. I liked Battle Royal, and it definitely was one of “those” movies… but I wouldn’t put it at the top of my list. But that’s Tarantino for you.

Boogie Nights. I’m not so sure if I want to watch this one again. I don’t remember much of it, but I’m almost certain I’m not remembering what I’m should remember the most. ahem

Who doesn’t like Fight Club? Seriously.

It’s weird, but I’ve seen a large part of Friday. And liked it.

Three out of his twenty (The Host, Joint Security Area, and Memories of Murder) are Korean movies. Very very well made Korean movies. I wonder if he’s seen Tale of Two Sisters, one of my favorite Korean movies of all time. Also, It’s quite amazing that two Bong Joon Ho films has made his list.

Lost In Translation was confusing. Very very confusing. I don’t remember much of it. I just remember feeling like there was something more to that movie, but was always too lazy to figure it out.

The Matrix was supposedly his #2 before the later two came out. (Yes, I don’t like to refer to them by their names.) My thoughts are very close to Tarantino’s on this topic.

I saw Hot Fuzz first, then saw Shaun of the Dead. I actually enjoyed Hot Fuzz more, because it was a bit more approachable since I hadn’t (and still haven’t watched) too many zombie horror flicks.

Team America? Wha…? Funny, but to make the top 20? Uh…

If I had to pick a movie I liked by M. Night Shyamalan, I would pick Unbreakable, too.

The movies I have yet to see on this list: Anything Else, Audition, The Blade, Dazed & Confused, Dogville, Friday, The Insider. But in actuality, I would love to watch most of the rest of these movies again.

via Video: Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath and Scott Chacon — Git, GitHub and Social Coding.

While I don’t use GitHub for my projects, most of the rubygems and other code bases exist on GitHub. I guess there are the few that are still on Google Code and even fewer on SourceForge.

The video, not only being extremely informative for someone who doesn’t know anything about git (but would like to know more), was a very nice overview of what I’ve been learning in the past couple months. (Especially more so the past couple of weeks.)

What I find awesome is that (at least Chris specifically) had a very personal problem he wanted to fix with version control systems (Subversion, in his case) and supporting tools (Bugzilla, in his case).

Sidenote: Chris’s presentation images are just hilarious. One comment: SVN could have been the lighthouse, not the “house”. The whole centralized repository idea?

I remember when fav.or.it was just getting started, and thinking about the ways that it would make my life easier. I didn’t hear this until today, but it’s being shut down, and their efforts are going towards TweetMeme.

Particularly interesting are the reasons Nick Halstead (CEO) list for having not succeeded in their endeavor. I love learning from people’s successes and in this case, failures.

1) The commenting market shifted to what I call ’surface comments’ – these are comments that appear inside other networks, i.e. Facebook, Google Connect, Twitter, FriendFeed (to name just a few) and although some of these have open platforms from which to aggregate from, the problems of context and also a rapidly shifting market soon made it extremely difficult for a small team to continue to compete (for which whole companies have dedicated their resources to notably backtype + ubervue).

I’m not all that knowledgeable on the subject of handling comments across multiple platforms, but I do know that Backtype is awesome. I’m using it right now for the blog.

As a sidenote, what I believe to be much more interesting are the comments made privately. Private and exportable comments are what I feel like is missing. I guess you could email or IM or Direct Message a link to someone with some commentary, but it seems like there would be a better way to do it. And if you do share a link that way, a lot of metadata is lost.

And I love me some metadata.

2) RSS is DEAD – back in early 2008 I presented at thenextweb conference in Amsterdam, and said that RSS was dead for the mainstream market. It was clear to me that as a technology it worked, but that adoption was never going to go mainstream. We attempted with fav.or.it to remove the need to know what feeds you needed to read (you created ’slices’ of content), but it became clear this intention was ahead of it’s time but also poorly implemented, and I doff my hat to the people at lazyfeed for getting it right.

Maybe for the mainstream, “RSS” is dead. (And I hope he meant “feeds”, unless he’s saying that Atom is alive and well. Oh dear, I think I just played into the “correcting Internet geek” stereotype. [Cue Conan O'Brien adjusting his fake glasses]) But since I’m mainly focusing on the power feed users who know what’s going on with feeds in general, I think I have a better chance. This is also why I can get away with not caring about IE 6… and maybe even 7 or 8.

I do agree that feeds are dirty. The implementation is a hack. You know what else is a huge hack? The Internet. When did the ARPANET become a tool for commerce and entertainment? Okay, did I just stretch it a bit there? Ahem.

In any case, I personally use feeds nonstop, even in the midst of this world of Twitter/FriendFeed… uh… yeah, in the midst of the world of Twitter. As long as I’m designing an experience for people like me, I’m sure I’ll be okay.

3) The site has also not been without controversy for re-use of content (through public RSS feeds), and although we put massive effort into support of licensing models (such as auto-detection of creative commons) our approach to aggregation of content for which we could not detect a license, and that required the publisher to opt-out (rather than opt-in) was in hindsight misguided.

Was it for the money? I don’t know… but it’s a bit shady, in any case.I stopped tinkering with fav.or.it when the site became more of a public aggregator, which is why the news of their closing got to me a couple days after the fact. How could I become a supporter of your dream if you take some very interesting routes to becoming awesome?

What Have We Learned Here

It’s hard, starting a company. And knowing when to quit is probably harder. Well, easier in my case, because it’ll be when I run out of money and have to find a job.

Oh, to be young and foolish… maybe I’ll eat these words later.

I have a thing for infographics, and a lot of Ji Lee’s work is awesome. Word as Image is especially cool.

The image, although an interesting take on the different levels of intimacy per communication medium, I would reorder, remove, and add certain levels.

And the important thing here is that different people would order this differently. Some who never use Twitter won’t even have that on their spectrum. I hate text messages, so I wouldn’t have that in my graphic.

I had a project years ago that never left my brain trying to capture this data: How different people use different channels of communication, and how people infer certain data based on the usage of a certain medium. Yeah, I still don’t know what I’d do with it, but it kinda made me think of that project from long ago…

I love this. I can’t win. It’s like someone’s telling me to give up on FeedSt.

Shift + t to share to Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, and many others.

And look, you can follow actual people’s worth of feeds.

Sigh.

“You might as well date someone who plays Alliance.”

via N00b Boyfriend – CollegeHumor video.

That’s right. THAT’S RIGHT.

I feel like CollegeHumor’s Original Content has only gotten better over the years. This one… eh, not l33t, per se, but that quote alone is worth all those /played days in WoW.

Um. Maybe not. But you get the gist of it.

With tr.im dying, I wonder how much of a spike in downloads this plugin is going to get.

I have a friend who has an account through USAA, and was amazed to hear that you could deposit checks by taking a picture of them and sending it in. This is yet another fine example of evolutionary design.

I want. Plz.

The iPhone bug has to do with telling the phone there is a certain amount of data, and then not sending it as much as you said you would. The function that reads the data starts returning -1 to indicate an error, but the other parts of the program don’t check for this error and actually think the -1 is data from the message.

via Exclusive Interview: Hacking The iPhone Through SMS : Introduction – Review Tom’s Hardware.

Always interesting to see the anatomy of a hack.

Browsers can do some amazing things these days. Hooray for the Internet. And WebKit. And Apple, for making such a revolutionary Internet-powered device, regardless of whatever may have happened with a certain App Store. Without the iPhone, we wouldn’t be where we are.

Native apps are great, but with HTML 5 becoming quickly the bandwagon for webdevs to jump on, it’s only inevitable lots and lots of hardware level support will be baked into the browser.

Think about using the keyboard and mouse on a browser. Not only do the browsers themselves interact with them (from a much more lower OS level), there are JavaScript event handlers for webdevs to tinker away at them (like onmousedown).

I’m waiting for a browser-baked camera doodad. You know, so I don’t have to depend on Flash for such things. At least <video> is included in html5… now if they would settle on a video codec…