From the 2000 Bricks project: “The Short Tail“.
Sala had sold only 106 paintings in 110 days. Not even one painting per day. Then he sold 315 in two days!

There’s a little blip at first (in Sala’s case, his gallery show), then a long dry spell with little or no results. Then, seemingly out of […]

Man, the One Thousand Paintings project has gotten a ton of buzz today. I’ve been tracking it pretty closely via Technorati since that project is so similar to my own 2000Bricks project, and it seems like Sala (the Swiss painter behind One Thousand Paintings and a seemingly great guy from my brief communication with […]

This is old news but still startling in the numbers’ absolute adherence to the rule. No outliers whatsoever. From the Pew Forum on Religion & American Life and quoted on the 4/16/06 episode of Meet the Press.
Who people voted for in the 2004 Presidential election
People who attend church more than once per week […]

As sick as I am of all the Yankee-Lovers out there, I really like Derek Jeter. He’s clutch (the anti-ARod), he plays the game the right way, and he legitimately seems like a good guy. But I’ve always thought he was overrated.
Not now. Jeter got his 2000th career hit Friday night, reaching […]

There’s lots of talk about the future of TV/video advertising. TiVo, BitTorrent, iTunes, podcasts, etc. are killing advertisers. TiVo users fast forward past the commercials. BitTorrent seeders edit out the commercials before seeding the network. TV shows in iTunes have no commercials. Podcasts either don’t have commercials, have quick spots […]

Simmons nails it:
I can think of 50 baseball subplots right now that are more compelling than some broken-down dude limping around and trying to break a milestone that he cheated to get. Enough is enough.

Last Out

Originally uploaded by brianbaute.

Congratulations to the Elon baseball team for winning the Southern Conference regular-season Championship outright with their 11-6 win over UNC-Greensboro tonight at UNCG. I took a couple dozen pictures at the game tonight and posted them in a set at Flickr.