Around the Creative World (11/10/09)

Rest in Peace to the 13 American heroes who were senselessly murdered at Ford Hood, Texas by the hands of a terrorist. That’s right: terrorist. Not because of his “faith,” but because terror is what he no doubt set out to cause: terror in the hearts and minds of his former comrades. Despicable.

Here are the links:

  • Gawker destroyed Nikki Finke of DeadlineHollywoodDaily and AdAge is talking about it. I started reading that blog when I was working for the manager of Brian Dennehy and Kathy Bates. (That was an unimportant detail. I just wanted to namedrop.)
  • Speaking of Ebenezer Scrooge, in an indirect and unclear way, “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” easily took home this weekend’s Box Office title with $30 million.
  • Happy Birthday, Firefox. You are 5 years old today. Before you know it, you’ll be graduating kindergarten, reading, and buying Ninja Turtle action figures… Or are you just a reincarnation of Netscape, possessing wisdom beyond your years? Eh, whatever. May the browser wars never end.
  • You ever wonder what happened to that kid in your high school who was really weird, kind of creative, somewhat witty, and did a lot of drugs? Well, I’m assuming that kid is either doing nothing, or doing this.
  • Hollywood still can’t get this whole new media/DVD/Internet era thing right
  • If you don’t feel like making a new Twitter list, no worries. You can let Conversationalist do it for you.
  • Eleventh Hour is on Twitter. My bad. I always forget to tell you guys.
  • Visit Times Square in New York City, get free Wi-Fi Internet access from Yahoo.
  • Andy McKenna, Governor candidate in my home state of Illinois, is running a campaign against former Governor Rod Blagojevich’s hair. It’s so ridiculous (and well-produced) that I have to say, I like it.
  • Michael Jordan’s son decided that $3 million was no big deal for the University of Central Florida.
  • In closing, here’s a disturbing “Smoky the Bear” ad (not sure if Hulu spelled it wrong or if it’s a copyright thing).

Brian Laesch has compiled this list of links.

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