SXSW: Dynamo Takes on YouTube for Indie Film Rentals
Promising a mix of revenue and flexibility, the startup will offer independent filmmakers a direct route to movie fans.
SXSW: Comic Bill Hicks Posthumously Rocks Austin
The North American premiere of American: The Bill Hicks Story delivers a biting dose of the late, great stand-up’s routines. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg: Fans who’ve memorized every word will dig the documentary’s inventive animation sequences.
Happy Daylight Savings Time: Prepare to Die Young, Commit Suicide, and Not Have Sex [Spring Forward]
Daylight savings time begins at 2AM, which only matters if you still own clocks that don’t connect to the internet or have cellphones attached. (Technophobe.) Saving daylight means increased rates of heart attack, suicide, money loss, and sleeplessness. Thus, sexlessness. More »
Comment of the Day: Drunks Get Robbed and Sean Penn Horror Stories [We Read You]
Today we watched a reporter get banned from a Sean Penn event for asking about his “die screaming of rectal cancer” quote. This brought two more Penn confessionals. (One from Ravi!) Plus, a taxi scam that only happens to drunks. More »
Meet Jihad Jamie — the Other Islamic American Woman Who Plotted to Kill a Cartoonist [Breaking]
Jihad Jane had a friend. Meet Jihad Jamie, a 31-year-old Colorado mom named Jamie Paulin-Ramirez who is being held by police in Ireland for allegedly plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist who had depicted the Prophet Mohammed. More »
NYT’s David Carr Tells SXSW Panel He Gets Scooped by Gawker ‘All the Time’ [Immodest]
We’re going to get big heads. First Rush Limbaugh unexpectedly says he loves us, now the New York Times‘ (excellent, not Rush Limbaugh-like at all) media columnist David Carr says we scoop him all the time. We’ll take it, whether it’s true or not. More »
David Paterson: "Things started to go wrong… [What He Said]
David Paterson: “Things started to go wrong the first day I was sworn in.”
‘Me? Just Chilling…’ [Pic Of The Day]
[ On the set of 30 Rock, Tina Fey phones it in. And thus concludes the bad pun portions of our day. Image via INF ] More »
How Your Blog Will Be Used Against You [Skynet]
Computers can’t read blogs because they don’t understand stories. But those ’scientists’ are teaching them, so eventually they can mine for immediate information about every aspect of our lives and see into our very souls. (For advertising purposes.) More »
‘Rep. Eric Massa Tickled His Staff. Is That Normal?’ [Salty Tickle]
That’s an actual Slate sub-headline. Before you dismiss, consider this: “The Dalai Lama is a professed tickler, often using it as a handshake substitute. (He even tickled Archbishop Desmond Tutu during a procession to distract him.)” Counterintuition saves Salty Sailor. More »