Daily Archives: June 13, 2011
R.I.P. Director John Mackenzie
John Mackenzie He directed The Long Good Friday. It stars Bob Hoskins. I went to see it opening night in New York City. It floored me. Continues to every time I see it. So does its theme, which I embed … Continue reading
Marketing Music Differently
GUEST INFORMANT: Kim Boekbinder A few weeks ago I played a concert in Portland, Oregon which was attended by exactly 18 people. After everyone else got paid, I made exactly $12.50 USD. I know that independent musicians all over the … Continue reading
Filed under Digital Overthrow, Marketing, Music
Nook Touch Browser To Be Unhidden?
That’s if this post from an XDA Developers forum member is to be believed: Went and picked mine up from B&N today and while paying for the unit there was a tech engineer in the store from B&N. I asked … Continue reading
Filed under B&N Nook Touch Rooting
Watchmen: The High School Years
If someone told me that I’d have more fun watching a no-budget YouTube production than a multi-million dollar Hollywood movie today … … I would’ve said: Bring it! The Internet did. You have to see this!
Filed under Video
Video: Batman/Dark Knight Match Edit
OMG, the Internet! What it brings! This is just so great. Make it full screen for the full hit.
Filed under Video
Another Egress Movie
I sit here gobsmacked. Hollywood seems to have an endless appetite for stupidity. Even when they’re not doing some puerile comedy, what they wind up making has an IQ of zero. Source Code — make the stupid stop.
How Far Sony Has Fallen
Now there’s an entire site called Has Sony Been Hacked This Week? Yet Howard Stronger has not resigned. Nor been thrown out.
Filed under Sony Reader
Brewster Kahle Is Already A Hero
When Hard Books Disappear A prudent society keeps at least one specimen of all it makes, forever. It still amazes me that after 20 years the only publicly available back up of the internet is the privately funded Internet Archive. … Continue reading
Filed under Collapse, Digital Overthrow, Pottersville, Public Libraries
More Testimony Why Twitter Is Worthless
The Earthquake that killed Twitter? Initially I was a little concerned as most of the reports were from outside Christchurch, with few from the city itself, but this cleared up as networks, phones and power quickly came back to life. … Continue reading
Filed under Socialtech
