This short web film, S-11 Redux, an entrant in the Sundance Online Film Festival, is worth looking at on several levels. From a copyright theory standpoint, it shows the importance of making products of mass culture available for all to “sample” toward the creation of new art. On a content …

Our own Kevin Marks has a complex and fascinating look – with charts, graphs and other pretty pictures – at Power laws and blogs. Being really bad at higher math and averse to long strings of numbers connected by symbols, this is what I gather from the data: the best-known …

I caution against overweening pride and arrogance from the US, especially the military, but that is nothing compared to the arrogance of the doomed: Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz left Italy on Sunday, capping a visit and a papal audience with an appeal to the United States to listen …

US government released the report Friday. The president says this about that: My Fellow Americans: The way business is transacted, government operates, and national defense is conducted have changed. These activities now rely on an interdependent network of information technology infrastructures called cyberspace. The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace provides …

So you don’t want to spend the money or go through the learning curve to master music creation software like Acid or Cool Edit, but you would still like to dabble in the fun of creating your own mix tracks and get jiggy and whatnot. Bacardi DJ Sound Studio has …

I sincerely hope that George Bush thanks God for Tony Blair every night in his prayers. Blair is a great leader, thinker and speaker. After the Security Council debacle Friday, this speech couldn’t have come at a more important time: We will come through it by holding firm to what …

This concerns me: Here on the fringe of the Arabian Desert’s forbidding Empty Quarter, this aerial armada, mobilized to patrol the skies of southern Iraq, is emblematic of the U.S. military — which now stands astride the globe more dominant than any armed force since the legions of the Roman …

Check out the serious reefer-sucking lineup for the 2003 Bonnaroo Music Festival June 13-15: three days of camping and jam band-big groove-acoustic roots-world beat-bluesy love everybody vibe headed up by the newly rechristened “The Dead.” 2003 Bonnaroo Confirmed Artists: The Dead Widespread Panic James Brown The Allman Brothers Band Ben …

Madonna would appear to be mellowing in her middle-age: Statement from Madonna on American Life I feel lucky to be an American citizen for many reasons – one of which is the right to express myself freely, especially in my work. I understand that there have been reports about my …

In what could signal the continuation of a trend begun by 24, the NBC mini-series Kingpin is going to be released on DVD two days before the series concludes Feb 16: The move comes as networks look to such DVD releases to earn more from series. NBC said the “Kingpin” …