March 14, 2008
Told you so
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November 21, 2007
Down with Big Media!
Ok. I'm obviously biased on this one. I've picked my sides and I am squarely against big media and therefore with the unions when it comes to the current strikes. To me this is very much about the future of information.
How we define communications and media today will have a frightening impact on the future. And by future I mean tomorrow, next week, 5 years from now, 50 years from now.
Another link from United Hollywood
Bill Moyers on the movement taken by big media to gain unprecedented control over communications and information. To me this is a step backward similar in size to taking back the printing press. This is the opposite of progress and the doom of America if it is allowed to come to pass.
After a few sconds of digging, I'm pretty sure that Kevin Miller is the anti-christ.
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November 15, 2007
Can I just say that media companies SUCK!?!
I support the writer's strike.
Not just because I think that writers deserve more money. Writing is a pretty crappy job and much of the greatest works in history have been written while the author was starving to death or locked in some prison or some such nightmare. Torturing writers actually seems to make for better art, so I can live with that.
No, I support the strike because media companies just plain suck. They are awful, terrible groups filled with horrible human beings who should be recycled into some more useful material like seat cushions for football bleachers or flyswatters. Media executives should be cut into tiny pieces and their offspring shunned by society for generations.
I do not think I am exaggerating here. They are worse than #@% Yankee fans!
They refuse to discuss residuals for so-called "new media". In other words, yes we make money off of advertisements that we force people who watch our programming over the internet, but you can't have any because the whole internet is just so new and strange that we don't understand how it all works! It's like a bunch of tubes or something right? Heck, it might just be some fad and in a couple of years people will go back to the good ol fashioned wireless like my granpappy *those were the days*.
So their excuse for not discussing this is that they don't understand how to make money off of it. Meanwhile they continue to track down anyone who shares media and threaten to take away their milkmoney or medicare or whatever hardened criminals have these days. So they don't "understand" the internet, can't think of how to make money using it, and abhore people using it to use it for free entertainment.
Can someone just put these guys out of their misery? I mean they must have a horrible life scared of all these modern contrivances like airplanes, electric lights, and the wheel.
I support the strike because I hope that some television starved fans will go all zombie on the networks and snack on their lower intestines. I support it just because I don't like waking up in a world with people so dense that they are threatening to pull down the moon by their own personal gravitational pull. You should support it too. cause if you don't the zombies will get you too.
Support it now at United Hollywood
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Any song, Any time
Caught this from Appscout.
This is a pretty smooth easy to use interface. Google for music.
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April 19, 2006
SPACE ACE!
Space Ace! In all it's glory. Absolutely Brilliant.
Can't believe that someone has actually gone and edited the story together from the DVD's. Looks like they did Dragon's lair as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0whCxQjJWAI
This takes me back. I totally remember dumping quaters in these machines like there was no tomorrow.
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October 18, 2005
I can't think of a title that does this story justice
I've been follwing the whole Jack Thompson vs the Video Game industry, Jack Thompson vs. Everyone Under 20, Jack Thompson vs Everyone in the word, and finally Jack Thompson vs Himself story for a little while.
Mostly I found it pretty boring. I mean how many rhetoric spouting, loudmouth, my opinions are better than your facts, jerks does the world really need. And for every Mike Moore you have a Jack Thompson. They grow these guys in some hidden government jerk farm or something?
Still It does give people a chance to look really cool while dancing around these dorks. Penny Arcade (who have been providing me with therapy to get through my Sony addiction withdrawl pains) just blasted Jack clean out of the sky with his own video game violence induced shotgun.
Penny Arcade and Jon Stewart,
You guys rock!
Joystiq: Penny Arcade donates $10,000 in Jack’s name to charity
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June 13, 2005
RENT, the Blog
I really like seeing people use blogs in interesting ways to communicate.
I found an neat little proto-blog being written by cast and crew members of the forthcoming RENT motion picture.
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/rent/blog/index.php
After seeing the trailer for this film I am really looking forward to it. I remember first catching the show on Broadway while living in New York. I guess I have the tendency to get really nostalgic about thigs, but this reminded me too much about life in the very liberal college I attended. I was pretty deeply moved (although interestingly enough, a friend who attended with me, an alumn of the same school and a native New Yorker was hardly moved at all).
It's great that they got most of the original cast back for the movie. Can't wait to see it.
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May 20, 2005
Kakaku goes down!
InformationWeek.com: Hacker Shuts Down Japanese Site For Over A Week
Looks like an unknown hacker has cracked one of the biggest Japanese websites and planted viruses that would install keyloggers on unsuspecting computers. Even worse, it will take all weekend for Kakaku to clean up the mess it's servers are so infected.
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May 14, 2005
Another one bites the dust
Curse you MPAA!!!
Btefnet is down. No idea when it will be back up again. Rumors are flying left and right about lawsuits, hackers, or unpaid registration fees, but the result is my favorite television station is off the air. This hurst as much as Supernova going dark and I have yet to find a good replacement.
And this would take place right as season finales are going on.
Grrrrrr
Here's some discussion on the crash.
digg.com: btefnet is down
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May 11, 2005
Napster to Go, Pretty cool.
I finally managed to get Napster to Go to work last night. Was a lot more complicated to set things up as I am outside of the US and this is currently a US only service. A friendly proxy server and my US credit card later and I was up and running.
After trying it out I am again convinced that this is the way media companies should be looking. The system is set up so that by paying a monthly fee ($15) I can download select tracks and albums to my computer, a compatible portable player (in my case a Samsung YP-999), and listen to them at my leisure. In order to continue listening to these tracks, I will of course have to keep ponying up the fee every month.
But to show you how it went, I started off by downloading about 10 albums. Over a hundred songs. None of them were my favorite artists, or albums I already own. Instead these were all groups and albums that I kinda like, or were somewhat interested in. I doubt I would have bought them, but now I get to listen to them on the train or wherever.
This morning I was listening to Gwen Stefani's new album. I was pretty impressed with the selection. Sure, not every album is available for Napster to go users, but there was definitely plenty of interesting things as I searched. I actually liked the songs, so now I am considering buying the album (not from Napster, I still like hard plastic).
Sure the service is not for everyone. It's pretty pricey too, but if you like listening to a lot of different music, this is the ultimate in on-demand high quality radio-sans annoying dj chatter.
Now if only iTunes would add this to their line I'd be in heaven!
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