Four graphs created by the International Federation of Health Plans that compare how much US residents and people in other countries pay for health care. As Jay Livingston of the Montclair SocioBlog says, "Our Lipitor must be four to ten times a good as the Lipitor that Canadians ... More.
Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor, who are each best known for internet funnystuff, have stitched together a wonderful non-comedy web video series called Put This On.
I attended the premiere last week in Old Town Pasadena, held inside the building that houses the subject of the pilot episode (embedded... More.
Elizabeth says: "Robert Crumb hasn't been doing any TV interviews, and is only doing one
radio interview, but we did tape his B&N event in New York last week. It's pretty much the
only visual record of what he thinks of Genesis, and is a great look
into his creative process.
The video of Robert ... More.
How do you gauge the magnitude of a series of lion attacks that occurred over a century ago? In 1898, construction on the Ugandan Railroad in East Africa was halted due to deadly, nightly lion invasions that took the lives of Indian and African laborers who were working on the project. By some estim... More.
The man widely considered to be the father of modern anthropological study has passed away at 100 years of age. NYT, Bloomberg, Wikipedia, AFP.
"Among the more striking conclusions of his work was the idea that there is no fundamental difference between the belief systems and myths of so-calle... More.
YouTube also has an entire 60 Minutes segment from 1978 that's all about video piracy in which Harry Reasoner investigates the (then) new-fangled videotape technology and what it will mean to the content owners when any Tom, Dick or Harry can copy any movie or TV show for free.
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My favourite Harry Reasoner quote is "Saint's running in groups are likely to be ludicrous"
...Ah, Jack Valenti. Good to know he's now burning in Hell, waiting for the rest of his MafRIAA and WiMPAA cronies to join him in the pits.
"...Battlestar Galactica, recorded off the air illegally..." Ah yes, life before the Betamax decision. How strange. And right before that, the notion of studios undercutting pirates by selling films on tape. Did it really take years for these bureaucracies to realize they could legally get rich doing exactly what others did to illegally get rich?
It's amazing that pre-release availability dates back into the 70s. Ralph Smith was very clear and intelligent: people want it, people can get it, people will get it. You can't stop the signal.
"Last September 20'th, the FBI raided Televideo"
Happy Anniversary, I guess.
The tape that this segment came from held up pretty well...
a professional inside job?
"whose" is possessive, "who's" is short for who is....
Bummer. Gone. TOS'd into vapour. Pretty much just like the rest of our culture one day will be, eh?
oh man, they took down those videos - must have been too similar to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_7p4cvBURk&feature=player_embedded so was removed for copyright violation.
;P