Archive for 'Culture'
Pirate’s Dilemma
Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing posted about Matt Mason’s Pirate’s Dilemma, a book about our current culture of piracy. Seems the book is being turned into a series with the help of Jesse Alexander (”Heroes” and “Lost”) and here’s the trailer:
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Cheers.
P. S. Today is a holiday here in Canada and that means I […]
Posted: July 1st, 2008 under Old Media, Copyfight, Culture, Television, Metaphor, Free Speech, DRM, The Big Picture, Music, Censorship, Internet, Mickey Mouse, Lies, Law, Short Videos, Business, Corruption, DMCA.
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Stephen Fry On Broadcasting
Stephen Fry recently gave a speech on behalf of the BBC and he has reproduced it for his podcast as Episode 4: Broadcasting.
You should listen to it for a number of reasons: Stehen Fry is a wonderful speaker and writer, he is an admiringly geeked out technophile and he is probably one of […]
Posted: June 28th, 2008 under Culture, Politics, Personal, Television, Metaphor, Free Speech, The Big Picture, Lies, Comedy, Business, Public Domain, Canada.
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George Carlin - At His Best
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
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Culture, Endings, Metaphor, Free Speech, The Big Picture, Censorship, Short Videos, Comedy, Language, Art.
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Monkeys With Car Keys - First Steps
Welcome to “Monkeys With Car Keys”>
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 […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Beginnings, Culture, Television, Cartoons, Ooo - that's neat!, The Small Picture, Web 2.0, Short Videos, Comedy, Art, Puppets, Future.
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George Carlin
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Culture, Personal, Endings, Metaphor, Free Speech, Censorship, Comedy, Art.
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Canada DMCA - Open Source PSA
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 […]
Posted: June 21st, 2008 under Copyfight, Culture, Personal, Metaphor, Free Speech, DRM, Censorship, Internet, Lies, Law, Short Videos, Art, Canada, DMCA.
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Tony Schwartz - RIP
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 […]
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under Old Media, Culture, Politics, Cinema, Television, Endings, Metaphor, The Big Picture, Radio, News, Short Videos, Art, Advertising.
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Earth And Moon - From Mars
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 […]
Posted: June 8th, 2008 under Beginnings, Cool Tech, Culture, Society, Ooo - that's neat!, Metaphor, The Big Picture, Science, Art, Travel, peace, Future.
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Slingbox For The iPhone - Final Stake In Heart Of TV Industry?
Gizmodo has a post about an upcoming release of a Slingbox app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Go the Gizmodo post to watch a video of it in action - it’s pretty fucking cool.
For those of you unfamiliar with Slingbox (and their other related products) it is essentially a way of connecting you with […]
Posted: June 8th, 2008 under Beginnings, Cool Tech, Old Media, Culture, Television, Ooo - that's neat!, Endings, Metaphor, Free Speech, The Big Picture, The Small Picture, Internet, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Business, Advertising, Future.
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National Conference for Media Reform - Bill Moyers Speaks
I found out about the National Conference for Media Reform through Susan Crawford’s blog. She spoke there yesterday and today Bill Moyers gave his talk and I’ve posted it here for you.
By all means check out the full site for the conference because it’s informative and inspiring. Moyers, of course, possesses the ability […]
Posted: June 7th, 2008 under Beginnings, Culture, Politics, Television, Free Speech, Net Neutrality, The Big Picture, Censorship, Internet, News, Law, Short Videos, Business, Fascism, Corruption, Future.
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