The end of film: Variety: “Citing collapsing demand for film prints as theaters shift to digital projectors, lab giants Technicolor and Deluxe have struck subcontracting agreements that edge them toward an end to their century-old competition in 35mm release printing.”
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Everybody’s a comedian…or a hacker, but this hack is funny because it’s true:
“1. Politicians and other public servants lie,” reads the event description provided on the Obama campaign website. “2. Politicians tell you what you want to hear and offer to provide things for ‘free’to get votes. 3. When government buys, the people pay.”
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WSJ: Flying Car Maker Gets Regulatory Clearance.
Hmm. I don’t know. That looks too much like a small airplane to me. A flying car is supposed to be a car that can fly, not a “roadable aircraft”. It’s 2011, already! Why can’t it be like these flying cars?
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The recently released anti-Janice Hahn attack ad directed by Ladd Ehlinger was bound to ruffle feathers. Now Turn Right USA, the PAC responsible for the ad, has become the object of a DDOS attack on their website. But have they uncovered the man responsible for the attack?
Sounds like another instance of ‘Freedom of Speech for me but not for thee’, all too common among the oh-so-tolerant Left.
Now the FBI is involved. Stay tuned.
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A major web security FAIL: “Seriously, this is kindergarten level stuff. Really, really stupid.”
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FilmLadd: “Converting two-dimensional movies into stereoscopic ones ‘after the fact’just doesn’t work.”
That’s just the studio trying to capitalize on 3D to sell tickets. In other words, it’s a gimmick. So it adds nothing to the experience. In fact, it probably gets in the way of it. And – according to one study – in the way of selling tickets, too!
Related: Boston Globe: Many theaters are misusing 3D lenses while showing 2D films…ruining the experience in the process.
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“A man’s laptop is stolen, but he’s able to track it remotely and with the help of social media, recover it” after police refuse to help.
Related content at Gizmodo: “Internet, can we keep crowdsourcing all our law enforcement needs?”
Well, maybe not all of them. But it’s nice to see we can use the internet to compensate for some instances in which police are unable or unwilling to get involved.
Via Consumerist.
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At last! You can download it from the Android Market, free!
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Harvard researchers are working on an app that finds landmines.
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Word is he did, via a helmet cam video feed.
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Consumerist: Stolencamerafinder.com may be able to help.
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If so, it’s about time.
But no gun turrets? That seems inadequate…
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Consumerist: Allegations of photography cause plane evacuation.
If you’re a photographer, you should know that you have rights (via BoingBoing).
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Gawker: ” The spying iPhone is no accident. A recent Apple patent application reveals that the location-tracking dossiers accumulated in iPhones are to be used in apps from Apple and any number of other companies.”
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Take heart, everyone!
NRO: “After Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a computer error in heavily Republican Waukesha County failed to send election results for the entire City of Brookfield to the Associated Press. The error, revealed today, would give incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a net 7,381 votes against his challenger, attorney Joanne Kloppenburg”.
Watch closely: the word “fraud” will become acceptable in the hours ahead.
UPDATE: The new numbers get Nate Silver’s seal of approval.
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An important cog in the machine: Meet the former RIAA lobbyist who recently made it to the federal bench…and is coincidentally presiding over a massive peer-to-peer file sharing lawsuit.
This legislation the White House is pushing dovetails nicely with the above, doesn’t it?
As for Obama’s promises that lobbyists won’t find a job in his White House, I guess he never said anything about keeping lobbyists out of the judiciary.
That sound you hear is millions of rubes slamming their palms on their faces…
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He sure doesn’t look it. Live long and prosper. Happy birthday!
If you’re a Shatner fan, no doubt you’ll enjoy watching him marvel at microchip technology while on an old gig for the Bell Labs.
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But not quite extinct yet: Judge puts California’s job-killing greenhouse gas law on hold.
Let’s see how it does on appeal…
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WSJ: Selling Video Scoops Online.
In the era of the ubiquitous camera, websites that syndicate amateur video for professional news organizations had to emerge sooner or later. Is this another nail in Old Media’s coffin? A great deal of images for news has traditionally been provided by the likes of Reuters, AP and AFP. On the other hand, this is great for independent journalists such as Michael Totten and Michael Yon.
But perhaps it’s great in general. Journalism is hard. And many who practice it professionally are obviously unfit for it. We need more James O’Keefes and less Dan Rathers. And we simply can’t expect journalism schools to fill that void.
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Forbes: Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal to Body Scan Pedestrians.
Why don’t we just go ahead and rename the Department of Homeland Security as the Ministry of Privacy? I mean, if you’re going to go Orwellian, go all the way. Plus the whole Obama presidency has been a big, steaming bag of Doublethink on the issue of privacy anyway.
Just ask all the rubes who were convinced – and tried to convince us – that Obama would be ushering in a 4th Amendment utopia. I’m sure they’ll have plenty to say about it, after they’re done blushing…
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UPDATE: Related: video of Discovery’s launch from a passenger jet. Very cool…
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Learn Chinese and watch Red Dawn, just in case…
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Fairweather Socialists: HuffPo brass tries to defend exploiting free labor for profit.
Emphasis on ‘tries’…
UPDATE: TOM links with related content. Thanks!
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Pam Geller: White House creating “fake people” on social networks to push propaganda.
Wow. I guess the Left does need a bigger Sorosphere. MSNBC and all the Lefty blogs are not enough? Brings a smile to my face.
Or maybe this is what they do when they can’t steal elections with fake votes. They try to steal the debate with fake opinions. Either way, cynicism at its most digital…
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Feds mistakenly shut down 84,000 websites for 6 days.
Bonus damage: the sites were smeared as child porn distributors in the process.
Your tax dollars at work…
UPDATE: Related: TSA Screeners at JFK Admit to Stealing $160,000 From Passengers.
We let them touch us and on top of that they steal from us???
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Any superheroes out there looking for an arch-enemy? Consider this teenage evil genius.
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The Magazine Death Pool. Which publication will go next?
I don’t seem to have time to read magazines anymore. I’m certainly reading plenty of magazine-like content on the web, but still I subscribed to Texas Monthly (which I used to read religiously in the early 90′s) and Wired last year. I love both magazines, and yet the issues just pile up without me even touching them. It’s a struggle to find the time to sit down and read either one.
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BBC: Wikileaks’champion Anonymous suffers DDoS attack.
UPDATE: Related: Wikileaks: News Story of the Year.
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Anne Thompson explains in Popular Mechanics.
Anne has her own movie blog, here. Whether your interest lies with indie, foreign or Hollywood studio pictures, she’s got’em covered.
She’s also a Tisch School of the Arts grad, like me. So you know she knows her stuff…
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The Chicken-powered Steadicam.
Great way to cut below-the-line production costs, but don’t expect to see these chickens on union shoots.
Seriously now, at least one group will condemn this practice on animal rights grounds…
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MPAA to universities: curb piracy or lose federal funding.
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NYU professor has camera installed on the back of his head.
He teaches at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, too. My alma mater…
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…as the FCC considers repurposing the TV spectrum for wireless broadband.
Wi-fi for everyone? But at what price?
