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Posts from May 2008

Earth to Nicole 01: Introduction

In this introductory episode, I explain my thesis that without LiveJournal, Gawker wouldn’t exist. Also, I tell you a story from my high school years, give you my current stance on pop culture things, and offer the public a chance to be a guest host. Please forward all correspondence regarding the podcast to earthtonicole [at] [...]


Posted
24 May 2008 @ 12am

Tagged
General

It’s Tumblr-y!

Hey look, my blog looks Tumblr-y! (Don’t worry sports fans, it’s still Wordpress)
Figured it needed a design refresh, and followed the footsteps of many of my friends and went ahead with Derek Powazek’s neat-o DePo Clean theme (He has a much more minimalist version called DePo Skinny as well).
It needs a few more tweaks though. [...]


Posted
23 May 2008 @ 3pm

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Geek Gab

Complete list of references in the Weezer video

This is the Weezer “Pork and Beans” music video that’s been circulating around the Web today:

It references a whole list of YouTube memes. So I went out and looked for the links of every single referenced video that I could find. Let me know if it isn’t complete:
(In order of appearance)
One Man Band
Numa Numa
Dramatic look [...]


Online vs. Print

Y’know, as old-fashioned as print media is, it still blows the socks off my feet. Getting my name in print in an internationally distributed magazine was still one of the biggest highlights of my life. All this stuff I do for CNET is fine and all, but there’s seriously nothing like getting a magazine in [...]


Crappy work-related videos

Well they’re not too crappy but I know I don’t look too good in these things. I’m just trying out CNET TV’s new embed video code (About time, right?).

I should probably compile these things somewhere.


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