Across Real America, Real Americans like you and me are distracting ourselves from what’s Really happening in the Real World. Coastal Elite types may find it difficult to let loose and ignore the dire predictions planted in their always-thinking brains by the media. In service to this small but whiny segment of our audience, SD&IF [...]
Entries from October 2008
31 October 08
Friday Roundup—October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween! So much has happened this week that I had hoped to comment on, but could not find the time. I was too busy pulling together the most awesomely perfect Mad Men ensemble for tonight’s festivities. So, here’s a quick rundown…
Obviously MTV and the Beatles are a match made in heaven. Thankfully we now [...]
30 October 08
Soulja Boy Salutes Slavery
This is just… I don’t know what to say.
Toure, blogging for Daily Beast, interviewed a series of hip-hop figures during a BET event, and cleverly asked them all a few questions from the Proust questionnaire. One of the interveiwees was Soulja Boy, who wrote that completely ridiculous and terrible song about what 15 year old [...]
30 October 08
The Sky is Falling—October 30, 2008
Every week, Draynd drops by to go all Chicken Little on some new fad or trend or actual catastrophe. He doesn’t really like anyone or anything, so everything is fair game. Except fancy mints. This week we are pro-fancy mints.
This week: Are you smarter than a Fox News anchor?
29 October 08
MTV Music
As some of you may already know, MTV released MTV Music, which is a redundant (Music Television Network…Music?) way of saying they put, like, every music video ever online. Take THAT, YouTube!
The best part is exploring the vault and watching all of these musicians try and figure out just what the hell one actually [...]
28 October 08
A Decade of DMCA
Public Knowledge has a week long series of blog posts and video interviews to commemorate the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which was enacted 10 years ago this week.
Yesterday, Rashmi Rangnath wrote:
Today is the 10th anniversary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) – a law that content owners claimed was absolutely necessary if they were [...]
28 October 08
China’s Filtered Web
This is incredible: China Channel, a new FireFox add-on, allows you to browse the web as filtered by the Chinese government. [via]
Kudos to Aram Bartholl, Evan Roth and Tobias Leingruber for developing this eye-opening and progressive educational tool. Check it out!
Thanks to Michal for the tip.
UPDATE: In related news, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo unveil their [...]
28 October 08
Palin Porn: A Staged Reading
Yesterday, I alluded to the fact that even thinking about a faux Sarah Palin/Hillary Clinton hookup in Larry Flynt’s Who’s Nailin’ Paylin made me a little nauseous (personally, politically, and philosophically – for the record).
Thankfully, Thandie Newton and Ricky Gervais joined forces with Graham Norton to make it all fun and games again! Here [...]
28 October 08
From Mad Men to Mad Science
I, like many bloggers and critics (but not nearly enough viewers), am an avid fan of AMC’s Mad Men. The balance between gritty HBO-style series and Sirkian melodrama is delicately struck, and it’s a pleasure to watch.
However, with tawdry office sex and button-down social politics taking up most of the screen time, it’s sometimes easy [...]
28 October 08
NAB and the Reality of White Spaces
Save The Internet separates fact from fiction in the NAB’s protests against the opening up of white spaces:
FICTION: The NAB told Washington that white space devices will affect the digital television transition, scheduled for February 17, 2009.
FACT: But the FCC won’t allow sale of any white space devices until “after the transition to DTV service [...]
