Archive for the 'Hive Mind' Category

• e  11 Mapping The Variant

  Partially-redacted sales data for The Variant is available for curious data-miners.

• e  19 Snopes plugin

  Whenever a family member forwards an email with a warning about an urgent peril to my health, I immediately visit Snopes.com to confirm my suspicion that it’s a hoax. I then copy a link to the article and send it back, with a gently-worded request to please check Snopes before sending out similar emails.

  Today’s [...]

• e  23 WEHT Sophocles?

  A reader from Belgium writes:

  I am a dedicated user of Sophocles. Indeed, my new film, its breakdown, call sheets, budget and whatnot have been generated with that software, which I find the best, most complete, film-minded and reliable that I have ever used (and I used or tried about everything that is out there since [...]

• e  10 Scrippets for Blogger

  The Scrippets plug-in for WordPress seems to be working well for self-hosted blogs, but it’s no use to folks who use services like Blogger, Tumblr and the like. For people on these on these platforms, the cost of simplicity is customization — they’re easy to use and hard to modify.

  But in an effort to share [...]

• e  46 Scrippets, PHP and a call to coders

  UPDATED. See below.

  For the past four years, I’ve been including little blocks of formatted screenplay examples in my posts, such as…

  INT. LIVING ROOM – DAY As the phone RINGS, Gary dozily reaches one dirty-socked foot off the couch to sit up — and suddenly finds himself falling. He lands hard, dazed. We REVEAL that the [...]

• e  24 Facebook, a hive mind question

  Once upon a time, I had a MySpace page, to which I happily added anyone as a friend. But right around hitting the 1,000 friend mark, I realized my patience for the site’s embedded idiocy — the 1998-style formatting, cheesy graphics, junior high demographics — was finite. I left it sitting fallow,1 even while recognizing [...]