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A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Epic Beard Man: Unconventional Web-based Documentaries
Not sure what this all means - it's a fight on an Oakland transit bus that has morphed into something of an online cultural phenomenon, now chronicled by this two-part documentary. Part 1: Part 2: The "star" of the show is Thomas Bruso, now known as "Epic Beard Man."...
Bad Sign
On a day in which prosecuters announced that they had established a DNA link between the Trailside Killer and an "unsub", I saw this sign: Single women, walking alone through the deep, dark Redwood forests, are starting to disappear again...
Martin Bosworth is gone, and the world is a little less fun & bright
Martin was also tormented by self-doubt, but he didn’t let that stop him from writing about the things that he cared deeply about; the world of comic books, heavy-metal music and cheesy sci-fi movies that are the Nerdcore Holy Trinity frequently appeared on his blog, and to read his reviews was to feel as though you were hanging out on a friend’s couch, relaxed and free to express your deeply held beliefs that Liam Neeson used the same fighting moves in “Taken” that he learned all those years ago on “Krull.”
The Creative Class War: FIrst Casualties and Collateral Damage
This started as a long comment in response to Martin Bosworth's well-sourced screed on Boztopia...but I realized about 1/2 way through that the points I wanted to make were starting to get a little elaborate for just the "Comment" space - and besides, I have far too...
Newspapers to TV, Movies: “We arrived in separate ships, but we’re in the same boat now”
Signs were there that DVD sales were about to implode; industry ignored all warnings To anyone in the newspaper industry, the parallels are eerie. The disruptive technology is introduced, and people with the ability to look beyond this quarter's P&L statement say,...
The New York Times’ Take on Charles Johnson & Little Green Footballs
This story has been developing for some time, and has provided the usual lefty suspects with quite a delicious schadenfreude chortle or two. But now the New York Times has weighed in, and the article makes it clear that something extraordinary is happening in the...