I’m a fan of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, not because I think he was a great writer (his prose is a bit purple by today’s standards), but because he really was the father of 20th Century post-Gothic horror. Sadly, all the film adaptations of Lovecraft’s work to date have been mediocre at best and usually wretched, […]
As you may or may not be aware, Hugo Chavez, strong man of Venezuela, recently banned “The Simpsons” from Venezuelan TV, replacing it with — wait for it — “Baywatch Hawaii.” Shawn Macomber, over at the American Spectator blog, likewise pointed out that during his recent visit to Venezuela, episodes of the shows “Men in […]
Nearly two years ago, I wrote a post about the future of broadcast video, comparing Al Gore’s venture, Current TV, with YouTube and similar venues. The post ended thus: On our DirecTV satellite system, we have hundreds of channels, though fewer than we used to; we dropped all the movie channels when we discovered that […]
…I wish that I had won the ‘geek lottery’ back in the dot.com boom: The robot comes with working lights, a build-inWenn Sie mehr Hilfe brauchen,wenn sie kostenlos Pokerspiele online , um die Aktion Buttons zu verstehen, gehen Sie bitte zu Das Spiel spielen. sound system, and “over 500 voice tracks by Richard Tufeld, the […]
Some 18 months ago, I wrote about the Blu-Ray v. HD-DVD format battle and suggested that both formats were a dead-end, and that the real next-generation video media would be based on solid-state storage (e.g., flash RAM). I predicted this was quite a few years away, though. What I forgot is that there’s another optical […]
[Thanks to the incoming links, particularly from io9 and Ace of Spades HQ, two of my favorite blogs; as the saying goes, feel free to look around (and to hit the tipjar over in the right column). Also, the first section of this review is spoiler-free; all the spoilers are in a white-text section at […]
…but this video of outtakes while anchoring in New Hampshire makes her downright likable: Doesn’t mean that I’m going to start watching CBS Evening News, though. I haven’t watched network evening news since David Brinkley retired or thereabouts. Hat tip to Suitably Flip. ..bruce w..
…historians and social anthropologists will still be mining “The Simpsons” for insights into 20th/21st Century civilization. But apparently not via YouTube — the clip I linked to disappeared (“We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”) just a few hours after I posted it. Ah, well. Anyway, hat tip to Eschaton while it lasted. ..bruce […]
The media tends to operate on a hype/anti-hype cycle (following Shannon’s theorem that the value of information is inversely proportional to its probability). So it was refreshing to read this post over at The Jawa Report that takes the current poll swings among Republican presidential candidates — each of which has been declared ‘toast’ or […]
Well, the circus that is the Iowa Caucuses is complete, and I am thankful for that. Never before have I seen the media make a bigger fuss over a tiny handful of voters and what their whims were. To see teams of analysts and pundits attempt to draw broad conclusions over what is (apologies to […]
