Defective pixels 5
Before we get back to our regular programming I just wanted to say a few words to our early-adopters. Stubgun is still in the early days, codewise the site is technically still in beta thanks to an upgrade to Rails 2.0, and we’re trying to iron out the remaining bugs. We’re scrapping the log-in system this weekend and having the standard name-website-comment forms you see on a lot of other sites. So hopefully it’ll be easier for people to comment come that time.
The Defective pixels column is intended to be a ‘interesting things from around the web’ type of post. At the moment some news posts are finding their way in, but when we’ve got all the bugs cleaned out we’ll be having a separate daily news round-up post, as well as other articles and features. So hopefully you’ll stay tuned while we get this all sorted out.
The image above is taken from an article at the LAist. Visit There Will Be Graffiti for more pictures.
For the 24-hour cock-fight
I thought Old Spice had been banished to the times of yesterfar. What better way to find a new younger market than by teaming up with Will Ferrell to co-promote his new movie, Semi Pro? The Old Spice website has a series of Jackie Moon videos where he gives his reasons for picking Old Spice: Pro-Strength.
Juno hate-fest?
Slate ponders on the current backlash for Juno. Indie fans not liking the fact its getting Oscar attention? Serious drama fans thinking it’s nothing like real life? Who the fuck knows? People will really bitch about anything. In other Juno news Jason Reitman told Pagesix.com that he wouldn’t make a sequel. Good for him – but with big box-office does that mean the studio won’t make a sequel without him?
Bomb’s worth the fallout
The List Universe has, surprise surprise, a list of 10 box-office bombs that you really should see. There are few on there that I haven’t seen that I’ll be keeping my eye out for. I question the inclusion of Equilibrium, admittedly with Christian Bale and Taye Diggs its not all bad, but with only one original idea and a dozen stolen its not what I’d call a good film.
While we’re on lists, one from Yahoo – 10 Most mismatched couples, and one from Matchflick, Ten biggest nerds in film history.