OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights
Banner day for EMI: “OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights“
(Via @johnsgunn.)
Archive for Movies
James Cameron: Before Avatar … a curious boy
“Failure is an option, but fear is not.” A great talk by James Cameron at TED, February, 2010; touches on his early love of science fiction, his love of diving, working with Stan Winston at Digital Domain, and his work on The Abyss, Titanic and Avatar.
Dr Horrible. It’s a thing.
Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Act 1 (of 3), is now on iTunes.
What are you people waiting for?!? It’s new, it’s only $1.99, and it’s by Joss Whedon! And don’t tell me you’ve already had your quota of sing-along super-villain internet serials for the summer, because I’ll suspect you’re lying.
There’s a Dr Horrible web site, too.
Customer “Service”
Last night we went to see Wall•E for a second time, because it was such a great flick.
We saw it at the cinema in Amherst, Nova Scotia, which is part of the Empire Theatre chain, the same chain that runs all of the cinemas in Moncton (Trinity Drive) and Dieppe (Crystal Palace).
When we got there the box office was closed; instead, all customers were to line up at the junk food counter, even if they only wanted tickets.
Schneier on Security: ‘Digital Manners Policies’
‘Digital Manners Policies’ is a marketing term. Let’s call this what it really is: Selective Device Jamming. It’s not polite, it’s dangerous. It won’t make anyone more secure — or more polite”
Best argument for open-source software; now what about open-source hardware?
