http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-vanishing-20090226 "Like the Hawaiian crow and the Chinese river dolphin, Costa-Gavras's 1972 Uruguayan political thriller State of Siege is effectively extinct. While it survives in a few, used VHS versions (you can get one through Amazon.com at $159.99)...

*When even the calm, scholarly eco-geeks get into Rush-bashing, you know it's the New Normal in American political discourse. *Looks like Rahm really gets it about Rove. This polarizing, raw-meat, intensify-the-contradictions thing, that's the Rove handbook. The one great novelty in the culture-war ...

You know I work for FanHouse. I am allowed great freedom there to get my voice out to a large audience. It's not really all that difficult of a job, but it's a hell of a lot of fun, and it's very rewarding.Since you all know I do this, I don't feel the need to pimp the hell out of it.There are excep...

Welcome to the podcast by (Cool) Shite covering soundtracks from TV & Film. Tracks Covered Theme From Lupin III ‘78 (2002 Version) - Yuji Ohno - Lupin III Kaneda - Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira DOGFIGHT - Initial D - Move Reincarnation - Ghost In The Shell - Kenji Kawai Rain (Male Version) ...

   vs. Day 2 YouTube's battle with music licensing body PRS which led to takedown of music videos in the UK continues with both sides taking their battle public and some of the effected players and usual pundits weighing in. A Google EU exec spoke out about the dispute. (paidContent UK) “We’ve...

Wow, this sure clears it all up. A couple weeks ago, the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel published a story about an additional $10.00 being tacked on to Wisconsin’s driver’s license renewal fee which the state began collecting last year. The money was to be used to help Wisconsin comply with ...

Continuing on with my Lotusphere 2009 recap I want to take a slight diversion as to why Lotusphere 2009 was a bit "different" for me this year. Again, I want to reiterate the fact that Lotusphere was as good as it ever has been however, I think the yellow bubble is beginning to take a harder look at...

by Bruce Webb Andrew Biggs references an editorial from the Charleston SC Post and Courier Advance Entitlements Reform However, President Obama's major entitlement-reform offensive strikes on the Medicare front. He proposed, in his speech to Congress, to deliver "quality, affordable health care for ...

COMMENTARY:  By suddenly taking down music videos in the UK, Google's YouTube proved that it could walk away from the table. Music videos, particularly those just in the UK, are something that the mighty Google can live without. Anyone who has ever been involved in high stakes negotiations has prob...

Recently Mike B decided to create a presence on Facebook for his blog GarageSpin which focuses on trends and technologies for garage-based home recording studios with great side  trips looking at the challenges and opportunities that indie musicians face.  Social networking giant Facebook is an op...