“Buying the War” was finally broadcast last night and it may well be called Moyers’ finest work ever. In “Buying the War” Moyers presents a sobering inside look at how nearly the entire journalist profession shirked its most basic tenets and became complicit in pushing the US into a war based almost entirely on lies. [...]
The RIAA's Cary Sherman has a Nov 13, 2006 must-read editorial on CNet. In it Sherman calls CEA's President Gary Shapiro statements "extreme", Sherman goes on and describes what he sees as the limits & definition of fair use. Why all the brouhaha? The just recently launched digitalfreedom.org site sponsored by the CEA. If you [...]
It is imperative that everyone support competition and a level playing field in the tv space. Please sign the petition (https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr007=80dnu42g11.app6a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=261) to force the cable companies to allow innovation in television. Of course all this might be for naught as internet TV may allow us to get around the cable companies completely.
Recently Frontline had and episode titled Tankman. The episode explored the question of what ever happened to the man who stood in front of a tank during the protests in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. Go see it over at the PBS website at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view/ and marvel that great TV still gets made.
Mark Russinovich is brilliant, check out his latest here:Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far Mark is an awe-inspiring engineer. And WTF is up with Sony. Who & how could this ever be allowed. Seems like we need anti-malware that detects software from well known corporations. I wonder how long [...]
Nice to see that Ruby on Rails is getting significant traction. Looks like the BBC is looking to leverage it on their latest skunkworks project. Check it out at: hackdiary: The BBC’s programme catalogue (on Rails)
Let’s face it, TV is dying. That morass of crap is slowly but surely becoming irrelevant, good riddance I say. I recently heard a statistic that soap operas are experiencing an amazing drop in viewer-ship and the entire tv industry was puzzled. That’s right, they are puzzled why they are losing viewers and are befuddled [...]
Sony connect music store was released a few months ago and I figured I would check it out. I assumed it would suck badly (how did Sony get this bad) and didn’t get a chance to check it out. Decided to go there and got this. They don’t support firefox? Huh? Took it off my [...]
Please go buy some music from Sarah Mclachlan over at iTunes. Why? Because she did this. And anybody that does that deserves to sell their stuff. Even if you don’t like her music you should support her efforts. Tell your favorite band to do the same.