Ron Silver died of cancer yesterday. A veteran stage actor, he will be remembered as ‘Bruno’ from The West Wing to most of the BS.com staff. In his memory I present his best West Wing moment, that landed just outside of the Top Ten Aaron Sorkin Speeches list.
David Holmes has an interesting way of getting travelers attention when giving pre-flight instructions. Instead of reading them as most people would expect, he raps them. Holmes describes in an interview with Central Florida News 13: “We’re going to shake things up a little bit,” announces David Holmes, who tried something new after noticing his [...]
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Diverse skill sets – and the ability to pester the hell out of a hiring manager – are key(s) to landing jobs in today’s news world, a group of newspaper executives (a.k.a., editors and publishers) have proclaimed. The information is part of a five-state survey of news managers, released at today’s Indiana journalism job fair. [...]
Compulsive e-mail users rejoice: Offline Gmail has arrived, the Official Gmail Blog writes: Today we’re starting to roll out an experimental feature in Gmail Labs that should help fill in those gaps: offline Gmail. So even if you’re offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like [...]
The Oscar Nominations were announced today by the Academy and a surly looking Forest Whitaker. It had a few major surprises, including no Best Picture, Best Director or Best Screenplay nomination for The Dark Knight (though Heath Ledger was nominated, which is probably all you care about), the total snub of Gran Torino and the [...]
If it gets the promotion through Twitter, Facebook and snazzy blogs like this, the following site may be the next PostSecret. What a FAIL : Your everyday life stories Community failings in an anonymous, streamlined environment? Why the hell didn’t we think of that? The site, formed by some French dudes, allows visitors to post [...]
Every year I like to see how close I can get to the actual nominations for the Academy Awards. This year is a little different, because I’ve been unable to see a lot of the nominees (though I hope to change that over the next couple weeks). However, I put together my official predictions, which [...]
ESPN is reporting, already, that Stan Parrish will be named as the new head coach of Ball State. This seems odd on a number of levels. First, when Tracy Roller left Ball State one of the first things we heard from Ball State to diffuse the immediate cry of ‘promote Lisa McDonald’ was that all [...]