Archive for September, 2007
WIRED Magazine NextFest
Old-guy robots with really nice skin! A notebook from Wired’s NextFest, the world’s fair of new technology.
Welcome back, western
The return of the western as badass texican-trumpet-tinged morality tale!
Biggest Demonstrations in Burma in 19 Years
Hundreds of thousands of Burmese monks and civilians have spent the past week marching in cities across the country, demanding change. They want an end to the repressive, tyrannical rule of the junta. They want free and fair elections.
These are the biggest protests in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the junta) since 1988, when the army [...]
reverb: music from los angeles & beyond
A long time ago (in the Nineties), I discovered a Swedish band called Honey is Cool. They practiced a form of pop that most people probably lumped in with other Swedish bands like Acid House Kings and Starlet. But if you listened closely, Honey is Cool had a sound and an aesthetic that was just [...]
Rallies for the Jena 6
The Jena 6 are attracting attention all over the country. Thousands of people rallied in Jena, Louisiana, (pop: 3,000) this morning in support of the six African American students charged for beating up a white student last December. Read about it here.
And here in Los Angeles, crowds came out all over the city. One of [...]
A sixth-grade startup genius! Or not.
I had a friend in college who was touted during freshman convocation as having built his own computer while in sixth grade. It was later revealed that his father (an engineer) gave him a little bit of help during the process.
Similar suspicions arise surrounding a Mediaversed report that a sixth grader in Silicon Valley [...]
Just so white!
Does it matter that this video is like a half-year old? No. Why? Because it’s still funny and because it’s sort of good journalism too. From the race file, a contemporary American whiteness: identified, acknowledged, personified and mocked. Adorkable!
Reverb: NYOIL, Earlimart, MBV
Reverb
Gettin lynched at the grammys and presenting a soundtrack for a first-night stand.
A jew-bu marriage
Multiculturalism sounds magical and exciting, an example of the best part of globalization.
My husband is Burmese Buddhist. He worships idols. I’m an American Jew. I spent my childhood attending weekly Hebrew school classes and saying the Sh’ma every night: “Sh’ma Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad. Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the [...]
Pushing Off: the jew-bu marriage
Pushing Off
Multiculturalism is great, except that my husband worships idols.
reverb: music from los angeles & beyond
There has been a veritable explosion of good new music lately! Here’s some of the highlights.
Whenever Pinback releases a new record, it’s a sure bet that I’m going to be spending some quality time with my mp3 player. I’ve been a fan since their very first self-titled album in 1998. Four full-lengths and three EPs [...]
Fact-check unit
Anything that mocks magazine culture, TV crime shows and silly montage plot techniques is worth… ten-minutes of your time, maybe? This one also somehow features Bill Murray. I don’t know if Bill drinks milk before bed. I do know that being a fact checker is ridiculous— one of those jobs that you can’t believe (a) [...]
Broadband beach sale
It’s pristine 700 MHz beach-front property. It’s the next information super highway. And it’s for sale by the US govt.
The not-so-liberal media
Progressive media watchdog group, Media Matters, published a study this morning claiming that syndicated conservative columnists are taking over the world— or at least dominating the op/ed pages of your newspaper.
With a mission statement dedicated to “comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media,” you’ve gotta read the findings critically. Yet the [...]
Socializing medicine
Any health care plan that includes the choice not to be cared for by Dr. Keg Party.
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