My Dots for Monday, August 13, 2007

IFC has posted the “50 Greatest Sex Scenes in Cinema.”

Quoted: The oldest film on this list is from 1896; the newest is from last year. You’ll notice we decided to leave certain standards in the field off. And as always, these lists are a launching point for you to tell us what you think. Are we wrong? Are we right?

The Personal MBA site has been relaunched and looks fantastic!

Their slogan is “mastering business through self-education.”

Quoted: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.” - Will Hunting, “Good Will Hunting”

A photo-list of various data visualization approaches. Some of them are quite stunning and useful.

Quoted: Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion.

An art exhibit based on light-sensing aperture controls.

A fantastic post on 4 different types of luck and how they apply to entrepreneurial endeavor. I am looking forward to the next posts in this series.

Quoted: Marc Andreessen, technology entrepreneur, Internet, Mosaic, Netscape, Opsware, Ning

A fantastic list of the top 10 movies that never got made, replete with funny descriptions of why. I have to admit, a Peter Jackson “Halo” production with Guillermo del Toro directing would have been awesome.

My favorite tid-bit? It’s pretty random but I love the following quote -

Quoted: Once again, [Kevin} Smith's career was evidently set back by his insistence that he only work with actors he's had at least one drunken pillow fight with. Since this limits his choices to Lee and Ben Affleck (and we're thinking the latter would not only have ruined the franchise, but would have incited fans to pile up all the copies of the novel and hold a Nazi-style book burning) the studio is wisely developing Fletch with another writer and director.

Quoted: In an interview with SPIEGEL, prominent Russian writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn discusses Russia’s turbulent history, Putin’s version of democracy and his attitude to life and death.

The Seattle Arts and Lectures series has a spectacular lineup this year. I may be buying a couple season tickets!

Quoted: Seattle Arts & Lectures has begun selling series tickets to its 2007-2008 season, headlined by Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.