A quote from director Andrew Stanton:
Life is nothing but imperfection and the computer likes perfection, so we spent probably 90% of our time putting in all of the imperfections, whether it’s in the design of something or just the unconscious stuff. How the camera lens works in [a real] housing is never perfect, and we tried to put those imperfections [into the virtual camera] so that everything looks like you’re in familiar [live-action] territory.
(Hat tip: Kottke)
Breaking news about Mr. 23 percent:
Jamie Kirchick elevates the discourse.
50 volunteers were given a free computer for answering all their spam for a month: 23,233 messages for the Americans. That’s a lot of muscle relaxants.
Our cultural consumption exists on a spectrum from "individual" to "collective". Technology has shifted the balance for both books and music. Digital distrbitution and the iPod have made music consumption much more individualistic, while the internet and global branding have made book consumption increasingly collective.
A massive Obama lead in Connecticut bears not-so-great news for the former vice-presidential candidate:
Joe Lieberman’s approval ratings have fallen to 45 percent. A rating that low is relatively unprecedented for a Senator who was just re-elected 20 months ago and has not had a major scandal befall him.
Ambers’ take:
In the year and a half since McCain and Schmidt first got to know each other, the two have grown close, almost like father and son; each very deferential to the other. Schmidt has taught McCain how to be John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate — a different creature from just plain ol’ John McCain. Schmidt is a partisan pugilist. He speaks in pre-fabricated, consumable, sharp morsels. McCain has learned from Schmidt that it’s OK not to be a referre,, that it’s OK not to play the judge, that it’s OK to draw contrasts with your opponents. And McCain, for a variety of reasons, has come to trust Schmidt’s judgment…
There was an acknowledgment, I am told, that the campaign had not sufficiently scaled up to fight against what is the best-run, best organized Democratic campaign in the history of the universe.
It’s been a pretty embarrassing few months, but photo-shop doctoring of your critics’ photos? It’s not as if Jacques Steinberg is much of a looker to start with. But the extra-"Jewish" nose? They’re beginning to nuke the fridge.
Shot three times yesterday back in DC:
According to Van Slyke, Beutler was walking with a friend after leaving a bar in Washington’s Adams Morgan section when the two were confronted by a man demanding their cell phones near 17th Street and Euclid Street.
It’s unclear as yet what happened, but the man fired several shots at Beutler. One bullet hit him in the spleen and he was hit twice in the shoulder. A D.C. police official said he wasn’t aware of any arrests made in connection with the shooting.
Just a brief note to wish him the speediest recovery and apologies from all of us at 17th and Euclid.
A new study of blog readers finds a depressing amount of polarization:
Left wingers read left wing blogs, right wingers read right wing blogs, and very few people read both left wing and right wing blogs. Those few people who read both left wing and right wing blogs are considerably more likely to be left wing themselves; interpret this as you like. Furthermore, blog readers are politically very polarized. They tend to clump around either the ‘strong liberal’ or the ‘strong conservative’ pole; there aren’t many blog readers in the center.
I take the ideological diversity of Dish readers as a source of pride. Maybe that’s because, these days, I don’t fit easily into either "right" or "left".
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