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2015 Nov 30, 11:41
History of Hackers including great interviews http://www.slashfilm.com/hackers-oral-history …
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Sep 16, 8:50
Interview with director & hackers wrt Hackers 20th anniversary http://passcode.csmonitor.com/hackers 
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David_Risney: YouTuber Hank Green on news media's reaction to him interviewing the President. (Spoilers: not a positive reaction)

2015 Jan 25, 10:22
David Risney @David_Risney :
YouTuber Hank Green on news media's reaction to him interviewing the President. (Spoilers: not a positive reaction) https://medium.com/@hankgreen/holy-shit-i-interviewed-the-president-fa3e8fb44d16?source=tw-lo_dnt_b3025335d87e-1422301772502 …
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David_Risney: Reading about new Odd Couple TV series includes an interview with Gary Marshal but I can only hear voice

2015 Jan 15, 9:33
David Risney @David_Risney :
Reading about new Odd Couple TV series includes an interview with Gary Marshal but I can only hear @PFTompkins voice http://www.nerdist.com/2015/01/matthew-perry-and-thomas-lennon-introduce-us-to-their-odd-couple/ …
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The Interview ending interpretation

2014 Dec 25, 2:29

As the title suggests, spoilers for The Interview follow.

Towards the end of the movie, after Dave Skylark is shot, he miraculously has a bullet proof vest, blows up Kim Jong-un, finds a random tunnel and is picked up by Seal Team Six. These are the same details of the unbelievable scenario that Dave Skylark describes to Agent Lacey at the beginning of the movie.

This isn't a coincidence. Everything after Dave is shot is his fantasizing about how things should have gone as he dies in the interview chair. Unsurprisingly his fantasy closely matches his original ridiculous thoughts about how he would assassinate and escape.

This is similar to movies like Brazil in which the later fourth of the movie is the main character’s romantic fantasy as he is tortured and killed in real life. Or Total Recall where the end of the movie matches the description of the memories that the main character will have implanted at the beginning.

Its safe to assume that after Dave is killed, Aaron and Sook are captured and also killed.

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The Making of Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino’s and the Cast’s Retelling | Vanity Fair

2013 Feb 28, 3:03

The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman, and turning Bob and Harvey Weinstein into giants. How did Quentin Tarantino, a high-school dropout and former video-store clerk, change the face of modern cinema? Mark Seal takes the director, his producers, and his cast back in time, to 1993.

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Funny People: Steve Heinrich, You Don’t Know Jack head writer | Interview | The Gameological Society

2012 Jul 1, 3:38

A veteran of the satirical trivia game series since its first heyday in the 1990s, Heinrich talks about Jack’s writing process, its long hiatus, and that short-lived live-action TV version.

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paulftompkins: So! Here is the trailer for a web series I’ll be...

2012 May 6, 7:31


paulftompkins:

So! Here is the trailer for a web series I’ll be hosting, where I chat with cool people over actual alcoholic drinks. We’ve shot a dozen of these so far and I am grateful to have been asked to host them.  I got to have interesting conversations with strangers and friends alike.

It goes live on Monday 5/7!

Internet terms!

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On The Verge, Joshua Topolsky interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson on...

2012 Apr 4, 7:10


On The Verge, Joshua Topolsky interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Badass meme which results in animated GIFs ready for meme-ification.  Including this one from BrettBrown of Joshua calling it.

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Out-of-Character Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil Degrasse Tyson

2011 Nov 28, 9:24PermalinkCommentshumor science neil-degrasse-tyson stephen-colbert video

Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA (reddit.com)

2011 Nov 14, 1:26PermalinkCommentsscience reddit neil-degrasse-tyson interview

The Most Anticipated Shoe of All Time: Q+A With Someone Who Won A Pair of Marty McFly's Futuristic Kicks | Motherboard

2011 Sep 20, 9:27Interview with someone who bought the limited edition Back to the Future shoes: "[Interviewer] Have you watched the Back to the Future movies? [Respondent] Yeah, some of em. The hoverboards and shit. That was cool." ARGH! Not worthy!PermalinkCommentshumor bttf nike shoes

Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Waxy.org

2011 Jun 20, 2:25I knew it was a game but still felt bad war-dialing and otherwise messing around in there. What if I accidentally find a way out? "Telehack is the most interesting game I've played in the last year... a game that most users won't realize is a game at all. It's a tour de force hack — an interactive pastiche of 1980s computer history, tying together public archives of Usenet newsgroups, BBS textfiles, software archives, and historical computer networks into a multiplayer adventure game." Also, see all the accounts of people finding their teenage selves in the game.PermalinkCommentsinternet technical development hack telnet wardial game

An Open-Source History of Mondo 2000

2010 May 14, 8:20PermalinkCommentstodo mondo zine interview audio

Shepard Fairey - Interview Magazine

2010 May 10, 8:59Iggy Pop interviews Shepard Fairey, including his Obama HOPE poster and AP lawsuit:

"... but the American public is generally pretty superficial, so an image like that just allows them to project whatever limited idea they have onto it. Obviously, not everyone is like that—I actually think there were a lot of people who were bummed by the image because they felt it was shallow propaganda."

"If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that’s not cool. But the way I make art—the way a lot of people make art—is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It’s about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn’t in any way take away from the original—and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience."
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TED Blog: Sergey Brin on Google's China decision

2010 Feb 24, 9:21"Onstage at TED2010, TED curator Chris Anderson interviews Google's Sergey Brin about the company's recent statement on China."PermalinkCommentsted video sergey-brin google china security privacy censorship technical

Microsoft Interview Questions

2010 Feb 22, 3:23This doesn't seem real but its still funny. If Feynman answered the 'why are manholes round' question: "... Interviewer: But just considering the round ones, why are they round? Feynman: If we are just considering the round ones, then they are round by definition. That statement is a tautology. ..."PermalinkCommentshumor feynman microsoft puzzle interview

TED Blog: TED's Chris Anderson answers Reddit's questions

2010 Feb 1, 7:57Interesting Q&A on TED plus Chris Anderson's list of favorite TED talks.PermalinkCommentsted video qa chris-anderson interview reddit

YouTube - AtYourLibraryOrg's Channel - Cory Doctorow Interview

2009 Aug 24, 9:56AtYourLibraryOrg interviews Cory Doctorow on library and librarian related Cory Doctorow topics, then breaks up his answers into short videos. Easy to watch and interesting.
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Charlie Rose - A conversation with Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine

2009 Jul 29, 10:58Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine promotes and discusses the concepts in his book "Free" on the Charlie Rose show.PermalinkCommentscharlie-rose chris-anderson wired free internet web economics video interview via:bengoldacre
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