Andrew O’Hehir’s blog in Salon examines Peter Askins’ new film “Trumbo,” about the life of the most famous of the blacklisted filmmakers in the ’50’s witch hunts, along with the lessons the three generations since can take from the history of censorship and political gagging of Americans.
If the Hollywood blacklist and the entire Red Scare […]
Flat-rate broadband – however cheap or expensive (depending on your point of view) it might be – inspired the formation of Skype, YouTube, Facebook, Apple’s iTunes and MySpace, amongst others. It allowed us to freely experiment, to embrace both the applications and the ideas they represented, such as VoIP, online video, digital downloads and social […]
Archer, Florida’s most famous citizen passed away yesterday. Bo Diddley was one of the architects of rock, a self-taught musician whose distinctive sound — coaxed from a series of homemade guitars — influenced just about every rock musician of the 20th Century.
NPR had a great piece on Bo this morning, with a retrospective of some […]
Cult books include some of the most cringemaking collections of bilge ever collected between hard covers. But they also include many of the key texts of modern feminism; some of the best journalism and memoirs; some of the most entrancing and original novels in the canon.
50 best cult books - Telegraph
Taps for HD DVD as Wal-Mart Backs Blu-ray - New York Times
“SAN FRANCISCO — HD DVD, the beloved format of Toshiba and three Hollywood studios, died Friday after a brief illness.
“The cause of death was determined to be the decision by Wal-Mart to stock only high-definition DVDs and players using the Blu-ray format.There […]
Redeye VC: Why Kindle is a hit…
When Amazon announced their Kindle last year, I bought one. I wasn’t too optimistic, as I had read a lot of bad reviews.However, to my surprise, I’ve really enjoyed my Kindle experience.
Essays on writing by some heavy hitters who apparently got bored during the writer’s strike. Why We Write
From WIRED Listening Post:
As I left the Imax theater after seeing U2 3D, a manasked me, “So, what did you think?” Using my best Larry Davidimpression, I responded, “Pretty good. Pretty… pretty good.”
I was lying. The film I had just seen — the world’s firstthree-dimensional live-action concert film — was astounding. I justdidn’t want to […]
Steve Bass, who does something or other over at PC World Magazine, presents us with some of his favorite things:
“If you’re working anywhere near as hard as I am today, [Note from editor: Oh, like you ever work hard?] then you’ll have plenty of time to sit back and enjoy these time wasters–favorites from 2007, […]
Anime News Network announces the following guests for Florida SuperCon. For further information, follow the link at the bottom.
* James and Oliver Phelps: Harry Potter superstars! James and Oliver are best known for their roles as Fred and George Weasly.
* Stanislav Ianevski: Harry Potter superstar! Stanislav is best known for his role as Viktor […]
The Sony Corporation is now selling a futuristic TV in Japan that is only about one-eighth of an inch thick — that’s one notch on a tailor’s tape measure.
The new televisions, which began arriving in Japanese stores this month , have an 11-inch screen and cost 200,000 yen (almost $1,800), said Jon Reilly, a product […]
Stare at the center for 30 sec. (Not a trick. Nothing will jump out. Just relaxing.)
http://www.psychedelic-art.net/psychedelic-picture/041_24_045.5.html
No. I didn’t misspell it.
How The Thought Screen Helmet Works
The thought screen helmet blocks telepathic communication between aliens and humans. An abductee who took voltage readings from a second helmet while wearing another one demonstrates that this communication is a form of electromagnetic energy.
Aliens cannot immobilize people wearing thought screens nor can they control their minds or communicate with […]
Keeping a few family photos in your wallet, of course, is a requisite of parenthood. But it’s also a duty that requires a degree of organization, as in remembering to swap out pics as the kids grow older.
To say nothing of the fact that those prints start to look fairly shabby over time. Isn’t that […]
From ProjectSidewalk.com via SiliconValley.com comes the Procrastination Flow Chart
Christopher Goodwin of The First Post reports:
A deep gloom has settled over Hollywood, and it’s not just because of the strike by Hollywood writers, which is gradually bringing all television and film production to a halt. What’s much more worrying in the long-term is that after years of complaints that Hollywood wasn’t making intelligent movies […]
