- Video: 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
"Since Fox will not be airing a new season of “24″ due to the writers’ strike, they plan to air a season that was originally filmed in 1994. CHTV obtained this exclusive clip."
Tags: 24, television, writers, strike, guild, 1994, parody - Video: Not The Daily Show, With Some Writer
The writers of the Daily Show, on the writer’s strike, contrasting the claim that online content is worthless vs the earlier claim that it’s worth a billion dollars.
Tags: dailyshow, video, news, writers, strike, guild, parody - Light Graffiti
"Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they’d never be able to with spraypaint."
Tags: light, graffiti, tagging, london, photography, timelapse, art - Excel on the Original Xbox?
According to Hollywood, if you get to level 10 of Prince of Persia, it opens a hidden mini-game - Excel. This is just laughably bad.
Tags: microsoft, xbox, princeofpersia, excel, office, spreadsheets, hollywood - Valve’s Kim Swift and Jeep Barrett on Portal
"We wanted a level where you take a box from the beginning to the end, and it helps you solve all the puzzles. In doing that, in play-testing people got to the end of the chamber and said, ‘Aw, I have to leave my cube behind!’"
Tags: valve, portal, kimswift, jeepbarrett, halflife, companioncube, crates, games, design, development, interview - Valve’s Erik Wolpaw discusses Portal
"GLaDOS does yell a lot and shoot rockets at you… but she’s also kind of supportive and funny… She says some very hurtful things and, honestly, by the end, it’s pretty clear that this sick relationship is unhealthy for both of you."
Tags: valve, halflife, portal, erikwolpaw, writing, humor, glados, psychology, bossfight, games - Derek Powazek on Politics
"What we are is numb. How much outrage can you muster? …Personally, I can’t stay outraged for seven years. At some point, you’ve gotta take a break and save up some outrage for the next guy." - Amen.
Tags: derekpowazek, politics, us, culture, outrage, bush, president, elections - Pencils Down
"If you know absolutely nothing about the issues — or if you have to explain it to your grandmother, who’s upset that her favorite soap opera is off the air — here’s my very short summary of the situation."
Tags: writers, guild, strike, explanation, summary, politics - Letter From Hollywood by Josh A. Cagan
"Writers are greedy jerks who hate you. This is a little known fact, but all writers are paid in gold and candy. Now they want to be paid in platinum and caviar. I’m not making this up."
Tags: hollywood, writers, guild, strike, greedy, parody - Khoi discusses designers ‘retiring’ into management
"It’s understandable that he should lament what might seem to be a mandatory relinquishment of craft; watching people get so good at what they do that they are expected to no longer do it takes a lot of fun out practicing any trade."
Tags: khoivinh, subtraction, nyt, design, web, culture, business, management - Video: Best Office Prank Ever
"One night we came in and walled off 11 senior offices at work…people didn’t know what to do the next day. this is 100% true"
Tags: office, prank, video - The Nerd Handbook
"The nerd… sees the world as a system which, given enough time and effort, is completely knowable. This is a fragile illusion that your nerd has adopted, but it’s a pleasant one that gets your nerd through the day."
Tags: nerds, geeks, psychology, funny, handbook, culture, relationships
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