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≡ Category: Google, History | ≅ 4 Comments
In November, Google launched  a 3D tour of Ancient Rome, circa 320 AD. The tour, produced with the help of the Rome Reborn project at the University of Virginia, features over 6,000 buildings, some rendered in fine detail, and it includes some interiors as well. The Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Basilica Julia, the Temple of Vesta — [...]
≡ Category: Film, Television | ≅ 2 Comments
Above, you can watch Orson Welles’ last interview and public appearance. The clip brings you back to October 10, 1985, when the great filmmaker, then 70 years old, appeared on the Merv Griffin show and talked a good deal about aging and his aging generation. Just two hours later, Welles would die of a heart [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Business | ≅ 2 Comments
The audio book version of Seth Godin’s latest book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, can be downloaded for free from Audible.com. Godin is the best-selling author of entrepreneurial business books and writes a popular blog on “marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread.” In print, the book usually costs $13.57 and runs 160 [...]
≡ Category: Media | ≅ Leave a Comment
Clay Shirky, who does a lot of good thinking (see his latest book) about the social and economic effects of internet technologies, has posted a new piece on the slow but steady demise of the newspaper. It’s an intelligent, not entirely lengthy, piece. Here’s a quick quote to whet your appetite: Round and round this [debate], [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs | ≅ 3 Comments
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≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
More just a heads up than anything else. If you’re spending money downloading MP3s from iTunes, you may want to give Amazon MP3 downloads a serious look. Amazon MP3s are generally cheaper, and you can find some outstanding deals there. Take, for example, $3.99 for The Pogues’ If I Should Fall from Grace, or $1.99 [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs | ≅ 5 Comments
A pretty brilliant saga played out over the last week on The Daily Show. It started when Jon Stewart tweaked Rick Santelli and his widely-publicized rant against homeowner bailouts. Apparently Santelli’s network, CNBC, couldn’t take a little joke and fought back, which only provided The Daily Show with more comic fodder. (You can watch the [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Nina Paley, a self-taught animator, released in 2008 an 82-minute animated film, Sita Sings the Blues, that mingles the classic Indian myth, The Ramayana, with contemporary autobiographical events, and it’s all set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. The film, which launched the San Francisco International Animation Festival (and was also recently featured [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 2 Comments
Appearing last month at the TED Conference, jazz pianist Eric Lewis presented a quite amazing version of Evanescence’s hit Going Under. As you’ll see from the very outset, the piece has some rather unconventional elements (some won’t like it), but stay with it. It all hangs together in a strangely beautiful way. via Minnesota Public [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 2 Comments
Legendary Canadian musician Leonard Cohen is now touring the United States for the first time in 15 years (get all of the details here). Fans who can’t catch a show will be pleased to know that NPR’s All Songs Considered provides free access to Cohen’s recent show at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. (It was [...]
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