ryan p. sims

i like to garden. i like earlier nights. not much of a farmer.
Vampire Weekend’s ‘Contra’ is over at NPR. Good, but I still can’t get Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ out of my head when I listen to their music. Good or bad, they share similar African inspiration.

Vampire Weekend’s ‘Contra’ is over at NPR. Good, but I still can’t get Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ out of my head when I listen to their music. Good or bad, they share similar African inspiration.

If you like True Blood’s opening title sequence, read about the design here.

If you like True Blood’s opening title sequence, read about the design here.

Well, the final part of this year’s Lost ARG has ended. This time, the reveal happened at 10:42, when Oceanic 815 was supposed to land in Los Angeles. A definite clue for next season. This poster was designed by the masterful Tyler Stout - famous for many posters for The Alamo in Austin.

Well, the final part of this year’s Lost ARG has ended. This time, the reveal happened at 10:42, when Oceanic 815 was supposed to land in Los Angeles. A definite clue for next season. This poster was designed by the masterful Tyler Stout - famous for many posters for The Alamo in Austin.

“Jazz on a Summer’s Day” has fantastic title credits where colors dance on the waves in syncopation to music.

Making of Bored to Death. Absolutely my favorite show of the season. (via HBO)

CERN on FlashForward

Science and science fiction by CERN @ FlashForward.

BTW, I like the book much more than the television series. The book is smart with a plot driven by scientists. Reminds me of Michael Crichton. The television series is awful - it rips off Lost, cop shows, 28 days later.

Every six months, the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases data about newspapers and how many people subscribe to them. And then everyone writes a story about how some newspapers declined some amount over the year previous. Well, that’s no way to look at data! It’s confusing—and it obscures larger trends. So we’ve taken chunks of data for the major newspapers, going back to 1990, and graphed it, so you can see what’s actually happened to newspaper circulation. (We excluded USA Today, because we don’t care about it. If you’re in a hotel? You’re reading it now. That’s nice.)