I saw Star Trek Into Darkness. I liked it, for the most part, with some reservations. There are some great action scenes. I found the characters interactions generally good, but sometimes there is a little something lacking. Good performances of Karl Urban as McCoy and Benedict Cumberbatch. And Scotty is very sympathetic.
more comment after the break, with moderate SPOILERS.
We need a decent TV series.
Commentstumblr will not stop being cool if Yahoo! acquires it. They learned their lesson with Flickr.
CommentsA couple of weeks ago there was this article about David Karp and tumblr and it made the rounds here, with people commenting on the part about Karp surrounding himself with his five current favorite employees and ignoring everyone else. Everyone said it was typical Karp, how he’s insulated and…
Agree. Flickr now has a more decent photo app than Instagram, the tumblr app is great, but the experience could be a bit better.
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A review by one of the folks sums it up perfectly:
“What worries me about Yahoo! buying Tumblr is how it would choose to incorporate the website into its email and homepage features. One of the reasons why Tumblr is so unique is because it’s a niche market. By adding more users who don’t fit into this niche, it would make it more difficult for communities to develop within Tumblr, and Tumblr would have to change to accommodate these new users. Tumblr as a website is not the kind that you can sign up for in a day and be on your way. It is a website crafted so that you can immediately post but must spend several weeks, sometimes even months, to build a community. With new users who would not be willing to spend time growing a community, Tumblr would have to be changed, which would alienate its current users. Those users have spent time and effort to make Tumblr what it is today, and they are the ones who spend time on the website daily. A user who is checking onto Tumblr because it’s attached to their homepage is not going to be as strong of a user nor as dedicated. By changing the website to suit this new user, you would lose the strong users while building an undedicated usership.
To any website that would think of buying Tumblr, they must understand that it is a website that cannot be changed to make it more user friendly to a casual blogger. I think that many Tumblr users would be less worried about a buy-out if they were promised that their communities and ways of using Tumblr would not be changed. No one is going to mind Yahoo! buying the website and gaining a few extra million dollars per year from the minimal advertising; what we will be upset with is if a company like Yahoo! then changes the website to increase casual users and decrease dedicated users. Yahoo! would gain nothing by losing this “cool” group of bloggers in an age group they so desperately want to reach, so they must cater to these individuals by leaving the website exactly as is.” - houseoftombombadil
As much as is does sound like a load of bullshit for someone to buy Tumblr, it’s a possibility. I Personally think it should stay independent and I hope David Karp keeps a hold of it like his own child. Or we make enough noise to where such major changes (if bought) will not happen. I would hate to see Tumblr turned into an advertising dump.We’re not a ‘hip fad group’ to be marketed to. I hate the fact that’s all we look like to businesses in the end.reblogging again for this ^
Holy fucking what.
LOL whut?
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Super Friends Homages
Super Friends Title Screen.
DC Limited Collector Edition #41 by Alex Toth.
Comicology v1 by Alex Ross. More Alex Ross Homages
Super Friends TPB by Alex Toth & Alex Ross.
Powers #26 & 29 by Michael Avon Oeming. More Michael Avon Oeming Homages
Challenge of the Super Friends DVD.
Doctor 13: Architecture & Mortality by Cliff Chiang.
Abyss v2 #3 by Alfonso Ruiz.
This makes my day.
“Could be worse.”
I’ve been compulsively quoting this line a couple time a week since high school.
It works on so many levels.
Costco CEO Craig Jelinek supports raising the minimum wage.
Costco announced record profits today, averaging $10,000 in profit per employee compared to $7,400 at Walmart.
The secret to Costco’s success is paying employees well, providing benefits, and giving them an opportunity to unionize.So large corporations’ excuses that treating & paying workers well would damage profits are all a crock of shit.
Oh snap!
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