An interesting perspective on recent history: industrialization created free time (unused mental capacity or "cognitive surplus"), TV filled it at first but now we are finding more constructive ways to apply it.

Quoted: I started telling [a TV producer] about the Wikipedia article on Pluto...She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."

Quoted: Several years ago, I was the Lead Animator of Matrix Reloaded. It was a great job, but it wasn't my dream job. I wanted to make my own feature film. So I quit to pursue my dream.

Quoted: For the past 4 years, I've been working at my computer 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. I've spent my entire life savings and maxed out credit cards. After all this time and effort, my movie is almost done. I present to you a preview of my feature film directorial debut... Killer Bean Forever.

Quoted: Someone you don't even know joined the group 12 Steps to Quitting Facebook. 3:18pm

A generalizing comparison of Facebook and MySpace users, with a bit of history and links to interesting ideas in sociology.

Quoted: Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Who goes where gets kinda sticky... probably because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.

See Flickr photos on a map as they're posted around the world.

An awesome "homemade" website that Miranda July made for her book of short stories.

It's kind of annoying that doing an image search for my name comes up with pictures for everything I dotted.

Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels. Grade school humor at its best.

Quoted: Comics are great because as they get older not only do they get more valuable (at least my future children hope so because they ain't going to no college unless a certain Mr. Spiderman can afford to send them) but they also get funnier. Thank god our use of language changes over the years because it makes our old comics look stupid and that's funny.

Send ecards based on Flickr images.

Quoted: How-to: Select an image from the most recent displayed on the home page, search over 3,000,000 CC licensed images, or lookup your own CC licensed pix on Flickr to create a unique custom greeting card. If you want to make it really easy for people to send your images as an ecard just add a link to www.delivr.net into the description when you post them on Flickr. When people click through we'll recognize flickr as the referring page and turn you pic into a greeting card. It's really easy, give it a try.