The … truth … will … be … revealed … November 22 … on … the SCI FI Channel. The cable channel sent a team of archeologists to Roswell, New Mexico, site of the most enduring UFO controversy, to see what they could see: In an effort to verify once …
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A Long, Long Way From Cleopatra
Egytian satellite TV channel talks sex and nation’s youth reveal they don’t know their lingam from their yoni. The government disapproves either way: A risque mix of sex and politics has got a ground-breaking Egyptian satellite TV channel into hot water with the government. Dream TV has been asked to …
Read More »Audible Books Go Digital
Audible.com getting rave reviews, this one from the International Herald Tribune: The Internet offers an alternative to buying or renting audio books by mail: Download the books you want to hear. This, however, presents a copyright problem – think of Napster and its successors. Publishers are reluctant to make their …
Read More »Reduced Comdex Reconvenes
DVD technology the big buzz.
Read More »Poop Pops From Pasadena Pipes
Homeowners pissed.
Read More »Spacey’s Spot for Fledgling Filmmakers
In what sounds like a kind of StarPolish for film, Kevin Spacey’s TriggerStreet.com debuts today: Trigger Street Productions, Inc., was formed in 1997 by Kevin Spacey to develop and produce entertainment in a variety of mediums. Realizing that the path to his own success would have been much rockier without …
Read More »Video Thingies
Mullah Omar or myself are the last people to be writing about video games, but I don’t think Omar can write so it’s up to me. To the best of my memory, the last video game I played was at my son’s 8th birthday party at a Chuckie Cheese’s – …
Read More »The Truth of Parody
Phil Donahue is not long for this TV world.
Read More »Street Art
I am a big fan of found art – in fact, our family makes weird little sculptures from bits and pieces of man-made and natural objects. As a result, I find this photo series of juxtaposed and overlapping posters, stickers, graffiti and stencils from SoHo particularly evocative and appealing. Billie …
Read More »Eregious False Comparison of the Week
Myopic, self-centered, gross overreaching for a startling metaphor, and very stupid: Star Wars producer Rick McCallum equates the fight against file sharing to the War Against Terrorism. Other than little things like the loss of thousands of innocent lives in an attempt to destroy a way of life for a …
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