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NERD FIGHT!!!

Christopher Null — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:03:31 +0000

Oh, the humanity…

Raise Your Hand, Blogmerica!

Christopher Null — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:11:00 +0000

“In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers.”

America’s Newest Profession – WSJ.com

Never Mind Peak Oil…

Christopher Null — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:21:00 +0000

Peak Indium is the next big thing.

How Long Will It Last? (JPEG Image, 2282 x 1397 pixels)

Sorry, Big Guy

Christopher Null — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:19:00 +0000

You hear this happening from time to time but this is the first time I’ve seen it become policy. I’m a little surprised it’s taken this long to happen.

United obese: United Airlines to make large, heavy fliers pay for two seats — chicagotribune.com

How to Get Rid of Any Frame (Including the DiggBar)

Christopher Null — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:02:00 +0000

God bless Danny Sullivan.

Buried in the text of this awesome post is the simple code for breaking your site out of any page that tries to frame your content. (Hello DiggBar!)

Danny said he couldn’t get the entire code to show up in his post, so I’m pasting it here (in part so I’ll have a permanent reference for it — but you can use it too). I’m using it on ALL my sites and it works like a dream.

Note that this script simply pops the page out of the frame and displays it normally. It doesn’t, as some sites have done, display a rude message, thus robbing you of traffic and the visitor of the chance to check out your stuff. This method makes a lot more sense to me… Here’s what it looks like if you try to visit the page with the DiggBar.

And here’s that code… just cut and paste to the section of your site (though the top of the section works too).

All hail Mr. Sullivan!

URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use?

We Always Get Our Man! Er, Girl.

Christopher Null — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:25:00 +0000

Happy Easter, kids!

Daily Star: Simply The Best 7 Days A Week :: Ones That Got Away :: Easter egg hunt ends in disaster

World’s Biggest SF Giants Fan

Christopher Null — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:10:00 +0000

Cameraphone pic, alas, you can’t read the license plate frame:

“NO FAT HOE’S, MY SHIT SCRAPES”

Things That Suck

Christopher Null — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:47:00 +0000

Of all the junk mail that exists, the absolute worst is the stuff that is a printed, single-sheet of paper, folded in half, and glued together on all sides. To open it you have to painstakingly tear off the perforated strips all around, all the while reading about the WARNING: $2,000 FINE, 5 YEARS IMPRISONMENT, OR BOTH FOR ANY PERSON INTERFERING OR OBSTRUCTING DELIVERY OF THIS LETTER… only to find that I have qualified to refinance a mortgage I haven’t had for months. (“We have searched county records to make you this offer.” Great!)

Grrrr.

It’s Better If You Don’t Know What Song It Is Beforehand

Christopher Null — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:08:00 +0000

Los Colorados,

Why I Sold My Business

Christopher Null — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:49:00 +0000

I’ve been amazed by the outpouring of excitement, congratulations, and general attaboys that have come along with my recent announcement (if you can call it that) that I’ve sold my business, Filmcritic.com.

Some have asked why I did it, and I’d like to answer that in brief here.

One friend suggested I was “selling off my baby,” but my response was that, at 14 1/2 years old, Filmcritic was no longer a baby but rather a rebellious and unruly teenager. I’d taken the site about as far as I could, from a traffic and business perspective, and either it was destined to keep rumbling along exactly as it was for the foreseeable future… or someone else would need to take it to the next step.

The site has a vast archive of reviews and continues to generate plenty of traffic, but there are features I’d love to add — users’ ability to rate movies, “if you liked this you’ll also enjoy…” features, social networking site integration, etc. Unfortunately I’m not the guy to build those kind of features. Hire someone to do it? Sure, a possibility, but an expensive one. Filmcritic has been profitable for years, but not to the point where I was ready to shell out tens of thousands on developers, additional hardware, more bandwidth, and so on. I knew that to take the next step, as they say, I was going to need backers of some sort.

AMC approached me last fall — totally out of the blue — and we got to talking. I thought nothing would come of it (we’ve received absurdly low buyout offers in the past), but things kept moving, much to my surprise. I met with the team at AMC (and parent company Rainbow Media) in New York and got along well with everyone, appreciating their attitude toward the media business and impressed that they wanted to get more into online and in a big way.

And of course, they want to keep Filmcritic.com doing what it does best: Offering informative and entertaining movie reviews of both new releases and classic titles. (I will continue to work with the company — my new title is “Director.”)

It’s a very exciting — and crushingly busy — time for me and for the site, as we get things switched over to AMC’s services. We even have a new logo, at least a temporary one, before we add AMC to the name officially.

So that’s the gist. I’m really excited to be part of the AMC team, but rest assured: The biting, insightful, almost impossibly well-written movie reviews will continue just as you’ve known them for all these years. Wins for everyone, I think!

Feel free to drop me a line (contact info at right) with any questions or comments!