links for 2009-04-22

"Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness. All without the restraints of writing in complete sentences. w00t! w00t! "

"For some time we're developing the idea of designer toys database with all the information about toys and everything behind them. Preservation of the data (year/edition/prices/artists info/etc) for art/collectible artefacts is very important, but at this moment there's no tool for storing and analyzing this information, plus, it would be nice to have an electronic copy of my collection with tools to sort and search and store my growing wishlist :)"

"We're [doing] a cartoon, an animated film that I co-directed with my son, called 'Megalomania,' and it's being produced by Curious Pictures in New York. Dan Clowes wrote the screenplay and we have Steve Buscemi doing the voice of the main character."

For all those that've been missing Grandaddy.

"It turns out that venerable indie label Matador Records lost their
vinyl masters when 33 1/3, the pressing plant they used, went bankrupt. It's a considerable setback that may affect some of your favorite albums in the Matador catalog… What does "everything" entail? 'Pretty much everything up to May 2006,' Eklow writes."