Matthew Stringer

Stephanie Szostak’s role in ‘Iron Man 3’ has been attached to rumors of Wasp and Ant-Man, but an official namedrop highlights potential connections to Man-Thing and Doctor Strange.

See, I thought there were more Marvel characters being woven in to the fabric of the Marvel cinematic universe in Iron Man 3 after all. I suspect we will see Man-Thing in the SHIELD television show?

This is precisely why technology exists.

terrorfish asked: I want to write but I am a perfectionist; my soul doesn’t believe in first drafts. advice? Answer: Do something else, or get a new soul. Or cultivate an excellent memory and craft…

Gotta love it.

It would appear that Rep. Mike Rogers, the main person in Congress pushing for CISPA, has kept rather quiet about a very direct conflict of interest that calls into serious question the entire bill. It would appear that Rogers’ wife stands to…

Why am I not surprised?

I love Reddit. And I love AMAs on Reddit. But I think the best AMAs are ones that actually offer something productive, such as this AMA about fitness with the Governator himself. More of these, please!

(via Deadline.com) So if it takes pirates 3 hours to get a TV show out to the web, then maybe, just maybe, the majors should think about ways to get their content out before that 3 hours is up. And I’m not talking On Demand through your cable or sat provider, I’m talking through Google Play, Amazon, iTunes, and other streaming media providers. Seriously, it’s 2013. If I want to watch a TV show after it has first aired, even after the show has just started, you know, like 5 minutes ago (even sports please!), I should be able to pay a reasonable price to get it on the device I want where I want. I mean, what am I, some kind of crazy future person who has wild ideas about how I should consume content, you know, as a consumer? Beat the pirates at their own game by providing a better experience with instant provisioning. Make money, y’know. Just a thought.

I don’t know much about the cult following of Veronica Mars, but I do know it’s impressive when a long-dead TV show’s creators can turn to Kickstarter to crowdfund a film adaptation. But, what I think is really at the heart of this story is that this is further evidence of our digital “return” to folk culture, where, as Charlene Li might put it, we continue to use new technologies to get what we want from each other instead of incumbent institutions. Although, in this case an incumbent is utilizing the crowd, but still, it just might work. It’s hybrid-folk, and I think it’s cool - a democratization of a  continually flattening system of media production.

Go Veronica Mars fans!

micro-universe:

A colony of Campanella umbellaria on the shell of an amphipod. 

Now we get to democratically select who will receive the dreaded Madden cover curse. Excellent!

I totally forgot that I made this pin board a year or so ago when my friends were all joining Pinterest.  Need moar images! 

I imagine the same thing happened with last year’s two big Snow White movies, too. Maybe the legal department can get top billing on these movies now!

Awesome.

When I want to share something on Google+, I select the circles of connections I want to share that something with, and I am confident that what I am sharing will be visible to those circles and no one else.

On the contrary, when I share something on Facebook, if I wish to limit what is shared I must change the post’s settings and decide if the whole world gets to see it, or if just my friends and/or their friends get to see it, or I must customize which specific friends shouldn’t see it, one by one. That or I can select specific groups of friends, family or whomever that I might have taken the time to create, a process, in my opinion, no where near as easy as creating Google+ circles to begin with (perhaps because Google+ has benefited from being new and you can immediately decide which circle a new connection falls under when you add them).

Lesson learned: Google is about deciding who you want to see your content, whereas Facebook is about deciding who don’t want to see your content.

Which seems more logical? Does Facebook’s approach benefit anyone? What about Google’s, is Google going about it all wrong? And why is it still so seemingly obfuscated and confusing for the lay user to figure out how to filter what they share on Facebook? Facebook is going to collect that data anyways, and since forming aggregate demographic profiles of what certain types of people are saying, doing and liking is what matters to their advertising schema, why does Facebook really need us all to share so openly with everyone? Can’t they still target advertising and grant us greater control?

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