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Monday, April 5, 2010

the frivolous

Gervais to Americans: You're Fat

Ricky Gervais has lost 42 pounds in recent months and he tells the Daily Telegraph it was for health reasons.

"The Hollywood pressure is that you do have to be of a certain standard or a certain type," he said. "I see everyone doing it, even good character actors. I think, 'Why are you starving yourself?' The pressure is there to have white, straight teeth..."

The pressure was not something he succombed to, he said:

"What is in America? I don't give a **** what they think and if I don't get a film role because my teeth are crooked, then **** them, I don't want it. I just go, 'It's ridiculous.'

"I hate them, and I hate that people think that I would. It makes me angry. I remember when a newspaper said, 'He's lost three stone for Hollywood.'

"I went, 'No, I haven't lost three stone and I would never ******* do it for Hollywood.

"I did it 'cos I work out and I wanna be fit.' And that annoys me."

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Friday, April 2, 2010

weekend frivolity

Boing Boing: Why I won't buy an iPad
(and think you shouldn't, either)

I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them. Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from experimentalist amateurs. These people were able to make stuff and put it in the public's eye and even sell it without having to submit to the whims of a single company that had declared itself gatekeeper for your phone and other personal technology.

Danny O'Brien does a very good job of explaining why I'm completely uninterested in buying an iPad -- it really feels like the second coming of the CD-ROM "revolution" in which "content" people proclaimed that they were going to remake media by producing expensive (to make and to buy) products. I was a CD-ROM programmer at the start of my tech career, and I felt that excitement, too, and lived through it to see how wrong I was, how open platforms and experimental amateurs would eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros.

I remember the early days of the web -- and the last days of CD ROM -- when there was this mainstream consensus that the web and PCs were too durned geeky and difficult and unpredictable for "my mom" (it's amazing how many tech people have an incredibly low opinion of their mothers). If I had a share of AOL for every time someone told me that the web would die because AOL was so easy and the web was full of garbage, I'd have a lot of AOL shares.

And they wouldn't be worth much.

1) Incumbents made bad revolutionaries
2) Infantalizing hardware
3) Wal-Martization of the software channel
4) Journalism is looking for a daddy figure
5) Gadgets come and gadgets go