I will admit that the past week has not been easy - and so I haven’t been posting very much. My dear friend Cheryl sent this to me via Facebook - and it made me cry.
It was a good cry.
So of course I’m going to share it with you.

UpDate - I found a better […]

I’ve mentioned George Carlin a few times in these pages. Here he is for a well deserved encore.
It’s all about context:

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Cheers

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This is the first of many many many videos which we are producing and will be posting online in the coming weeks and months. The official website itself isn’t ready yet, but will be soon. A preponderance of funny shit with people and puppets will proliferate even as […]

As posted by Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing the folks at Open Source Cinema have put their latest PSA against Bill C-61, the Canadian DMCA, which is given freely for distribution and you can even re-edit it and add your own shit and what ever else you want to do.
Here it is:

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And just so you […]

The New York Times reports that veteran commercial producer, audio archivist and media guru, Tony Schwartz, has passed away at the age of 84.
Schwartz was perhaps best known for the famous “Daisy” ad that ran once in the 1964 U.S. presidential campaign and clinched the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater.

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But Schwartz was more […]

When I saw this photo the hair on the back of my neck went up.
Click on it for a closer view - it’s just stunning.

The image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
There are obvious comparisons to the famed Earth Rise photos made by […]

For those who don’t know 5-25-77 is a feature film about a young high school student completely obsessed with Star Wars.

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Not to be confused with the upcoming (we hope) Fanboys - this film resonates so frickin’ strongly with my own geeked out youth. I remember seeing […]

I was saying it for months before the damned thing was ever released into the real world and now, with the next iteration of the iPhone looming on the horizon, I found this nifty video over at the MAKE blog. It showcases an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch called Piano.
Sweet.

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And then there’s […]

In his 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man, famed media scholar Marshall McLuhan wrote these words:

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights […]