Like most of you, I suspect, I vividly remember the full-time television news coverage in the immediate aftermath of the horrific and monstrous terrorist attacks on the United States fifteen years ago today. The networks did a reasonably good job … Continue reading
In a free market businesses are free to set prices, customers are free to buy or not, and competitors are free to compete by offering an alternative product at a better prices. But sometimes customers don’t really have a choice … Continue reading
From YouTube’s “What’s the Mashup ?” channel out of France, the latest compilation of dance clips, this time from television series and set to Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling.” There are 75 total clips used. To see which programs … Continue reading
A couple of months ago John Green posted another good short video about Syrian refugees that’s worth four minutes of your time. Syrians in general aren’t all that different from middle class families in Europe or the United States. The … Continue reading
IBMs Watson project has used AI techniques for a variety of things, perhaps most famously competing against humans on the gam show Jeopardy. It has even done an analysis of the characters in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice … Continue reading
The Farrelly brothers bring back the Stooges in the form of Sean Hayes (almost unrecognizable) as Larry, Will Sasso as Curly, and Chris Diamatopoulos as Moe. Hayes played the extremely gay character Jack on Will & Grace, Sasso was a … Continue reading
John Oliver talks about politicians who use popular songs for self-promotion not merely without permission but often apparently without a lot of thought. Donald Trump has hilariously used “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (at the end of the … Continue reading
Even more than vampires, zombies have been done to death. But there are two zombie movies I like, both British: Shaun of the Dead (which I really should get around to writing a review for) and this one. An old … Continue reading
I’m not a particular fan of Star Trek (or of Star Wars, for that matter, having seen only four of the films in that series), but I’ve nothing against people who are, and I rather like this home theater based … Continue reading
Here’s an amusing little video to encourage all American citizens to register to vote by showing five things that are harder to do, from playing the classic kids’ game “Operation” to naming from memory the major characters on Game of … Continue reading