Category Archives: Kultcha

According to NPR, SpongeBob: Still Soaking Up Ratings After 10 Years, 45 million people over 18 watch the show every month.

This Lily Allen song Absolutely Nothing is very hard to get out of your head.

I couldn't find a good video of it, so here's one of The Fear instead:

I found Lily Allen via my TingTings Pandora station.

If you are at all intersted in how great stories get architechted, you'll want to read Mystery Man on Film: The “Raiders” Story Conference.

(via boingboing, Leaked transcript of Raiders of the Lost Arc story-meeting)

Title is silly Bismark reference.

BlenderLaw » what's in a name? asks some thought provoking questions about EDGAR and Gabriel, two electronic financial info retrieval systems — with male names.

I was particularly struck by this, not just because it's a fun post and uses a foreign character set, because I gather that UM may be buying an electronic medical information system, with a PHR system named Lucy.

Could it be that if it's about money, you want a boy's name, but if you want the punters to think of it as a non-threatening, nurturing system, do you give it a girl's name? The sample is too small for any firm conclusions, but it bears watching.

Via

Via Incertus, this YouTube video,

This is all happening in 2008.

Backstory at this (likely ephemeral) AP story Actor Freeman foots prom bill in Sundance doc.