Todd Levin hilariously ponders the difficulty of finding ‘entertainment’ for a friend’s bachelor party. “In an effort to do proper diligence in researching this kind of specialty service, I decided to draft a questionnaire to help me screen any potential candidates for bachelor party entertainment.”

The screenwriter is out to promote the forthcoming, 10th anniversary re-issue of his fantastic, under-appreciated “Sports Night” series on DVD. Regarding his more recent, failed series “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” he says: “I made too many mistakes. I would give anything to go back and get another bite of that apple. Basically, to use a sports analogy, you can have the best team in football playing the worst team in football. But if the best team in football throws four interceptions, they’re not going to win.”

Armin Vit reports on a student-produced test book for the online, print-on-demand system Lulu. Its pages include photographs in CMYK, RGB, grayscale and half-tone, line and pattern tests, type specimens at varying sizes, and even crop marks — all so that designers working with Lulu can get a sense of what its digital presses are and aren’t capable of. Best of all, anyone thinking of using Lulu can purchase their own copy.

A list of nine best practices. One of the smartest: “Good blogs are the product of attention times interest.”

Jon Rubinstein, a veteran of Steve Jobs’ current reign at Apple, is trying to reinvigorate the former PDA and smart phone leader, notably with today’s release of the Treo Pro.

Mildly clever marketing campaign for HBO’s forthcoming “Tru Blood” vampire drama.

An excellent interview over at the Spout blog with the director of two of my favorite films. One of them, “Metropolitan,” became available for viewing at Hulu.com as of last week. The other, “Barcelona,” is well worth queuing up at Netflix. Via Vanderwal.net.

My friend Rob Giampietro, formerly of Giampietro + Smith, teaches a class at Parsons called “Typographic Research.” Each student publishes at least three times a week to a a blog of the same name, resulting in many posts full of beautiful stuff.

In case you had missed it, the band released the source code to their unconventionally animated music video some weeks ago. This rendition uses that source code as physical choreography for Lego blocks, animated via stop-motion photography. Really beautiful.

“During the fantastic opening ceremonies, as well as many hours of broadcasting this week, I never heard NBC mention the stadium’s architects, the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron… If a story concerns a building but not its design per se, then journalists generally assume that their audience has no interest in knowing who designed the building, especially if the designer is not well known. Design authorship is usually considered factually irrelevant.” Sniff.