I saw The Police play at McAfee Coliseum (Oakland, CA) last night. The highlight of the show for me was ‘So Lonely’. Here’s a video of their performance of that song from last week’s Seattle show.
Monthly Archives: June 2007
links for 2007-06-13
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“There has been a fundamental shift in our culture and it has created a new landscape of influencers and an entirely new ecosystem for supporting the socialization of information…”
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“I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there,” he says of the final scene.
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Call a toll-free number –> leave a short message –> automatically shows up on your Twitter, Jaiku, or WordPress blog.
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Marc Andressen: “The leadership that the Facebook team is showing here rivals anything that the large and established software and web companies have done in this decade.”
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A list of “underground” Facebook applications. These are the ones that have not been approved by the moderators.
links for 2007-06-12
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Round-up of Sopranos final episode links
links for 2007-06-11
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A great list of cheat sheets from none other than Marc Andressen
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Create an embeddable Fickr slideshow
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Author of the book “Everything is Miscellaneous”
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Mr. Chase wanted to end his tale without melodrama or even a splashy denouement. He succeeded. (requires NY Times userid)
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Lots of really good comments on this one.
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Comments on the finale
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“These great mythic characters, who have captivated HBO viewers for nearly a decade, are now suspended in space and the national imagination forever.” (registration required)
Sopranos Finale
“Well the movie never ends it goes on and on and on and on….”
I really liked the ending. Like the other Journey song on the jukebox said: “Any Way You Want It”. Personally, I think he was whacked.
6/12/07 Update:
From this exclusive interview with David Chase:
One detail about the final scene that he’ll discuss, however tentatively: the selection of Journey’s "Don’t Stop Believin’" as the song on the
jukebox.
"It didn’t take much time at all to pick it, but there was a lot of conversation after the fact. I did something I’d never done before: in the location van, with the crew, I was saying, ‘What do you think?’ When I said, ‘Don’t Stop Believin’,’ people went, ‘What? Oh my god!’ I said, ‘I know, I know, just give a listen,’ and little by little, people started coming around."