Fear of Disney’s invisible security force made me a little hesitant to participate in this Davey Dance Blog, but I’m unspeakably glad I did it anyway. They didn’t bother us at all.
(I’ll get some more pictures and videos up in the coming days)
As I’ve mentioned before, I often don’t know what I’m talking about on Play Value. That was not the case for this all-Dreamcast episode.
I especially liked Josh’s closing thoughts here.
[Van Halen’s Panama] was written about a car. According to David Lee Roth this was because critics accused him of writing about nothing more than partying, sex, and cars but Roth realized that he had yet to write a song about cars.
I gave them my email address when booking online, and they immediately started sending me money-saving packages.
10 business days? Is someone approving these by hand?
Talking about will.i.am over IM is fun because Adium interprets his name as a website.
He’s making his feature film debut in the upcoming Wolverine movie. According to this interview with MTV, during one fight scene he punched a camera, broke a lens, and scarred his hand. I hope they use that take for something.
In the interview, will.i.am goes on to say:
“But that goes to show you,” he grinned. “I ain’t to be messed with, because I break lenses!”
Discussing the scene a bit further, Will revealed that once director Gavin Hood replaced his camera lens, he had the rapper/actor run through the battle quite a few more times. “I missed a couple marks,” he laughed. “They’d say, ‘OK, come in, hit your mark, turn to the left … and, action!’ I missed my mark! ‘All right, take two!’ So I missed my mark a couple of times, then I got the hang out of it: Boom! Pow! It probably took me 50 times, but I got it. It was hard for me, but it was cool and fun at the same time.”
Last week, I wrote about a page and a half on Lostpedia’s article of nicknames Lost characters have given each other.
Recap for those who are just joining us: Lostpedia.com is a Wikipedia all about Lost, and it’s contributors have seen fit to make an entire page that meticulously catalogs every instance of a Lost character calling another character by anything other than their given name.
I found the whole thing fascinating. Who does this? Thankfully, commenter Margeeka ran the numbers.
There have been a total of 597 edits to the list of Lost nicknames by 230 people. I theorized that while many people contributed, most of the heavy lifting was probably done by only a handful of uberdorks. I was wrong. To drop a buzz word, the workload has a long tail. The top 10 contributors only made a combined 168 edits, about 28% of the total.
Those top 10 are -
Jackdavinci (35)
Sockmonkey (28)
PandoraX (18)
Tricksterson (17)
Marik7772003 (14)
CTS (12)
Deming (12)
Eags (12)
Blue eagle islander (11)
Amberjet11 (9)
I find the process behind this and other well developed wiki’s fascinating. The tools for worldwide collaboration are so well developed that several hundred people were able to work together just to create this, a document of stunning unimportance. Think about all the things that could come from this system, the possibilities are infinite. If we get enough people, we might even figure out what the smoke monster is before season 5.
Margeeka, how did you get that data out of Lostpedia and crunch the numbers? I’m embarassed to admit it, but I wouldn’t mind running this on a few other ‘pedias I know of.
I don’t usually post MP3s, but I just can’t stop listening to King Harvest’s Dancing in the Moonlight. Even if you don’t listen to music on blogs (I almost never do) at least give the first 10 seconds a try. The electric piano is like taking a shower in a rainbow in the 70’s.
A lot of people think this is a Van Morrison song, and it’s easy to hear why.
