January 2012
25 posts
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Jan 30th
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“The natural home for ideas and creations is in the commonwealth, the public...”
– Kevin Kelly
Jan 30th
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note to self:
Buy every DVD with “extras” of Patton Oswalt speaking extemporaneously. Watching the actual movie: optional.
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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“Under this new deal, pirated movies remain free of charge, free of non-skippable...”
– Matt Drance
Jan 28th
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Midnight excursions through a jazzy garden of caricatures, in Paris — with Owen Wilson almost a gentile caricature of Woody Allen. (2011)
Jan 28th
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“There has never been a time in entertainment history when TV has been this much...”
– Dave Pell
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“Don’t yell and scream about how you’re losing business to piracy when your stuff...”
– Jonathan Coulton
Jan 21st
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Did you ever notice that most of the bad guys on “The Rockford Files” where a suit and tie?
Jan 20th
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“SOPA and PIPA will die but they’ll be replaced with something just as bad because lawmakers are stupid and producers are afraid of the future — a future that’s coming no matter what the entertainment industry does. For the money they are spending on lobbying, a design team could develop a new system that would make more money by exposing more content, not less, enabling new business...
Jan 20th
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“Time-Warner has called, and they want us all back on the couch.”
– Clay Shirky explains the history of media duplication, up to today.
Jan 18th
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“I have a subterranean charm. Most aren’t able to see it right away.”
– La Femme Nikita
Jan 18th
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A real time rumpus, with common heroes and uncommonly realistic heroics, in the “Nick of Time”.
Jan 16th
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“House of Cards” mirrors its heartless protagonists too well: sorta interesting, but we just don’t give a shit.
Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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WatchWatch
The Intergalactic Nemesis appeals to our love of old time radio drama, and mixed media. Ready for a 15 minute coffee break? (excerpt from live at Dell Hall, Austin TX; via NPR.)
Jan 13th
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The Scale of the Universe →
Conveying the cosmic scale of Everything is a challenge, when limited to a screen that humans can see. Here’s one interactive attempt, inviting you to ”zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime” on a single web page, by Cary & Michael Huang.
Jan 12th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Jan 5th
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We’d be more interested to see “Stephen Fry in America” devote a full episode to every one of the 50 states, rather than breezing through each (huge) region in 59 minutes, devoting just a few minutes to one or two well worn stereotypes about each state. Alas, the breadth of geography and scarcity of running time guaranteed this travelogue’s shortcomings.
Jan 3rd
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Bob Mondello's Top 10 →
Making sure these are in our Netflix queue.
Jan 2nd
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Starting 2012 watching some documentaries we overlooked in recent years.
Jan 1st