Saw the trailer for this last week in front of “A Prophet”. Looked interesting, although I have a natural bias towards anything banksy-related.
Exit Through the Gift Shop - Movie Site
Saw the trailer for this last week in front of “A Prophet”. Looked interesting, although I have a natural bias towards anything banksy-related.
Exit Through the Gift Shop - Movie Site
Out here in LA I tend to watch less television than I did before, view more feature-length films (especially because I’m working on projects related to the industry) and drive a whole lot more.
Last week I had my high speed modem installed, but I decided not to subscribe to cable television, which saves me about $100 a month in service fees. Instead, I’m going to try using a Mac Mini, along with a number of parts and accessories, as a home media center that depends on the Internet, and eventually Over-the-Air (OTA) digital broadcast television, to satisfy my video entertainment needs.
I want the system to take care of the following tasks:
I also require that it:
As I work my way through the process, I’ll continue to extend this post with relevant information and links to the parts and software I’m using.
“See, now this is mockery.” - John Gruber
Coming soon to your local design-fetishist arthouse movie theater. Immediately added to my Netflix "saved" list in case I miss it in theaters. (Here's the film's Netflix page if you want to do the same.)
Specifically, what if The New York Times goes out of business — like, this May?
The Atlantic has a worthwhile article pondering the (very real) possibility that the NYT print edition might cease to exist by the middle of this year given their current financial situation.
One comment on the article -- it posits the HuffPo as a model for what a new, non-print NYT could be like. I hope that's wrong, given that the HuffPo for all its attention captured less than half a million dollars in revenue last year (and could make half that this year, given the lack of an election and a declining ad market.) Sure, the Times reaches 20 million online per day versus the HuffPo's 8 million or so per month, but even a multiple of say 10x the uniques isn't going to generate enough revenue to support their operation.
"The Magliozzi Brothers are qualified. They both went to MIT, and Tom has an MBA and Doctorate of Business Administration from Boston University. They have long railed against SUVs and called for increased fuel efficiency. Tom doesn't even own a car, and Ray drives a 1987 Dodge Colt Vista, which he bought for $100. These guys are not automotive industry insiders and will be on our side."
- John McGrath in the Facebook Group "Click and Clack for Car Czar"
If we're going to blow $15 billion on Detroit, we might as well at least get a laugh or two out of it. One things for sure - they can't do any worse than the current guys in charge. As someone who worked with these guys many years ago (on the original version of CarTalk.com), I wholeheartedly endorse the nomination.
A delightful, entertaining talk by Hodgman from this year's TED conference. Perhaps not quite an illuminating or informative as the usual TED video, but well worth watching nonetheless.
You might have to be a little bit of a videogame industry wonk to find this amusing, but the creative team that developed Battlefield: Bad Company came out with post-launch video clips poking fun at the sometimes overly intense Rainbow Six, Metal Gear and Gears of War franchises. I'm surprised they haven't posted one for Call of Duty yet - it seems ripe for the picking.The recent Gatorade "Big Head" commercial has to be one of my favorite television ads in a long time. It's a great little set piece (I suspect it's a one timer and not a long-term campaign), with a lighter attitude than their previous efforts. A nice little reminder for all the adults about everyone started out playing the game.
(A detail I didn't notice on the first viewing was fastpitch softballer Jennie Finch's remark -- "why don't you throw it underhand?" Nice.)
All day, baby, all day.