Lincoln on Twitter
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Creative tweeting from a historical perspective. More at historicaltweets.com. Hat tip to @sreenet.
Creative tweeting from a historical perspective. More at historicaltweets.com. Hat tip to @sreenet.
Blogs are so out. Microblogging is where it’s at these days. Even the US Congress gets in on the action at Tweet Congress. Check out the site for whether or not your local politician is tweeting (is that even a word? Sigh). So far 15 Democrats (including the President- and Vice-President-elects) and 26 Republicans are on Twitter.
The pressure is on enough that our buddies across the pond also started their own tweeting with Tweetminster (Westminster, get it?).
Is this going to be information overload or is this going to be actually a useful way to keeping track?
Comedian Louis CK appears on Conan and puts some interesting perspective on what we take for granted these days. He calls the current generation the “crappiest” of all time. Extremely funny.
Next year’s Golden Globe awards promises to be a superstar studded event (hopefully a strike like this year won’t reduce the show to a press conference) after looking at the nominations, announced today. As usual, most of the movies nominated are the ones released in the last 3 months of the year (I really hate this practice). But some of the gems from early on did make it (especially in the comedy category). I haven’t seen some of the new movies but among the nominations I really like, are the ones for “Tropic Thunder” (if only the Academy Award people will shed their inhibitions about nominating comedic pictures), Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” (with the Indian music superstar A.R. Rahman winning a nod as well) and of course the incomparable performance of the late Heath Ledger in “Batman: The Dark Knight.”
The superstars that are nominated are (in no particular order):
Some of the other familiar faces in award shows continue their uncanny ability to attract the voters and this year we see the return of uber-nominees Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet (nominated twice this year), Kristin Scott Thomas, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Dustin Hoffman.
I am also pleased to see two comeback kids getting nominated: Robert Downey Jr. (for his extremely funny albeit controversial role in “Tropic Thunder”) and Mickey “The Voice” Rourke (for the critically acclaimed “The Wrestler”). I am a bit surprised to see no sign of my beloved Cate Blanchett (for “…Benjamin Button”) though.
Hilarious. Wait for “Ubuntu? I am going to learn Ubuntu?”
Salon’s Carol Lay has the following suggestion for what to do with dead people:
Two laddies from villages in India just signed free-agent contracts with the Major League Baseball team The Pittsburgh Pirates. Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel were winners of a reality TV show called “Million Dollar Arm” that sought to find people who could pitch at 85 miles per hour. While a lot of MLB players are from countries as disparate as Cuba and Japan, this is the first time athletes from cricket loving India has signed on. Let’s hope they shine.