Thoughts on Life
A quick post while packing and running around like mad (updated)
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- Wednesday 24th October 2007
Of course, as soon as the crew at Best Kept Secret book me on a weekend tour of Italy, the people at Gyro enlist me on a job that deadlines on the day I leave. I’m not complaining; I’m just saying.
So while attempting to tune up my gear for the tour, finish the job, pack, and take care of the zillion other chores that always appear like mushrooms on the day I leave for the airport, I figured…
Thoughts on Life
Think you’re bad?
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- Monday 22nd October 2007
You ain’t bad.
These dudes are bad.
Thanks to…
Copyright
Comcast blocks Internet traffic it doesn’t like…
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- Saturday 20th October 2007
…and doesn’t tell anyone about it.
The AP tested and found that Comcast is blocking p2p file transfers of any size.
“NEW YORK (AP) Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.
The interference, which The Associated Press…
Music & Sound
A new film from the makers of “Scratch”
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- Tuesday 16th October 2007
Doug Pray and Brad Blondheim, the director/editor and producer of Scratch, respectively, are premiering another documentary, called Big Rig.
From the website:
“BIG RIG” is a broad portrait of modern America as seen through the eyes of long-haul truck drivers. Spanning 21,000 miles, 45 states, and dozens of truck stops, director Doug Pray and producer Brad Blondheim (the team who created…
Thoughts on Life
Heroin brands
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- Tuesday 16th October 2007
A few weeks ago I read American Gangster by Mark Jacobson; it’s a collection of Jacobson’s magazine journalism grouped around his profile of Frank Lucas, a leading NYC heroin dealer in the 1970′s.
In the Lucas story is a list of heroin brands available in Harlem in the early 70′s:
Blue Magic
Tru Blu
Mean Machine
Could Be Fatal
Dick Down
Boody
Cooley High
Capone
Ding…
Politics
A few fact$ that probably will have no effect what$oever on the legal $ituation of the telecom$ caught $pying illegally for Bu$h on their cu$tomer$ (UPDATE)
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- Tuesday 16th October 2007
From the new book Digital Destiny by Jeff Chester of The Center For Digital Democracy:
[...] federal candidates since 1990 have been given more than $183 million in campaign contributions by the communications lobby – $115 million of that since the 2000 election. The phone, cable, and broadcast industries have spent $344 million for lobbyists since 2002 alone.
There may be a lot of noise…
Politics
Man here says the Bush administration was spying on phone calls 6 months before September 11
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- Sunday 14th October 2007
The Washington Post and the NY Times both carried stories yesterday about allegations by Joseph Nacchio, former head of a telecom giant called Qwest Communications, former head of Bush’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, former possessor of a top secret security clearance (and currently a convicted criminal, I should add).
From the NYT:
The phone company Qwest…
Politics
The general malaise in the media over the latest torture revelations
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- Saturday 13th October 2007
Greg Mitchell (pictured), one of my fave columnists over at Editor & Publisher, weighed in this week with an examination of the media’s general lack of response to latest Bush war-crimes revelations.
He points out that some bloggers (not loonies like me) are taking this very seriously:
Andrew Sullivan, who now blogs for The Atlantic, and a onetime Bush-backer and war supporter, heads…
Thoughts on Life
How to learn good curse words in Mandarin
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- Saturday 13th October 2007
Duke Ellington once said: “Every man speaks to God in his own language; there is no language God does not understand.”
And right after God is Eric.
Several years ago, at the end of the dot-com boom, I was enlistd by e*Trade to do some sound design for various exhibits they planned to install in their brand new, gigantic 5th Avenue-right-between-the-IBM-Building-and-Sony-headquarters space….
Politics
You haven’t read all about it because you haven’t been told all about it
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- Friday 12th October 2007
Project Censored publishes an annual list of The Top 25 Censored Stories Of The Year, and by “censored” they mean ignored by the major media outlets.
This year’s list just came out, and there’s a good overview of it in The Fort Worth Weekly.
If the news you’ve been reading in the last few years scares you, what you haven’t read will get your knickers in a serious twist. The snooze in the…
