Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 27th through January 30th:

• NoteBookBook – This skeuomorph “BookBook” should be an appropriate present for grandparents as well as neo-nostalgic youngsters.
  Sold at TwelveSouth for $…
• U.S., Taiwan make arms deal – Overriding objections from China, the Obama administration unveiled a .4 billion arms deal with Taiwan — including about .85 billion in mis…
• Twitter shuns celebrities – Microblogging service Twitter made two major changes in the past week, betting that users are more interested in following their friends, in…
• Real Street View (2008) – Tara Kelton – "Life-size posters of Google Street View images removed from the internet and pasted in same location in the physical world. Monuments to sp…
• If Only Google Would Do All Our Social Interfacing For Us – The prank site Google Xistence "resembles a Google product page, complete with YouTube instructional video, and purports to let users plug i…

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 22nd through January 25th:

• Picasso Painting Torn In Adult-Ed Mishap At Met Museum – "An unidentified woman attending a museum class 'lost her balance' and crashed into the artwork," leaving a 6-inch rip in the canvas. "'Acto…
• China Fines Pop Singers For Lip Syncing – "Two Chinese pop singers have fallen foul of a lip-synching ban, facing fines of up to $12,000 (£7,400) for allegedly miming at a concert. M…
• Performance Art Gets Its Own TV Channel – OntheBoards.tv, is "the first online, pay-per-view series dedicated to presenting progressive contemporary performances from around the worl…
• The Leno/O’Brien Affair – A Misunderstanding Of Demographics – "Over the 16 years from O'Brien's first appearance on late night to his taking over "The Tonight Show," Leno didn't change his nice guy pers…
• Sundance Festival Vows To Change – "Sundance Film Festival organizers pulled a Domino's Pizza on Thursday afternoon, saying that they'd failed in some respects over the last f…

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 18th through January 22nd:

• People Watch TV News For Validation, Not Information: Study – "A new study suggests that viewers worldwide turn to particular broadcasters to affirm - rather than inform - their opinions. It's …
• Free-TV Site Hulu May Charge For Access – After spending "months studying how to strike a balance between what people expect to watch free online and what they would be willing to pa…
• Sundance Tries To Ditch Its Mainstream Reputation – "Year in and year out, the festival … is overloaded with undeniably non-commercial (and not necessarily artistic) films that don't have a …
• Avatar Earnings May Break Records, But Attendance Hasn’t – "Eleven years ago, of course, ticket prices were a lot cheaper — the most recent estimated average ticket price was $7.46, compared with $4…
• First computer to sing – Daisy Bell – …

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 18th through January 18th:

• Sebastian Mölleken – Sebastian Mölleken's A40 portrays Germany's Ruhr region along the A40 highway, using landscapes and portraits. Very impressive work!
  .end_g…
• Why The Late Night Talk Shows Are Failing – "In its glory days, "The Tonight Show" served as a search engine on culture, letting us know which politician had made a gaffe, which corpor…
• Why Are Professors Perceived As Liberal? – "Conjure up the classic image of a humanities or social sciences professor, the fields where the imbalance is greatest: tweed jacket, pipe, …
• Avatar’s Globes’ Win: Hollywood Self-Indulgence – "This was Hollywood giving thanks to Hollywood, for the benefit of Hollywood, while the rest of the world peered in from the other side of a…
• Nice Move, Royal Caribbean (Cruise ship frolicks in Haiti) – Haiti has long been a destination for cruise ships plying the waters of the Caribbean, though you'd expect that the recent catastrophic eart…

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 11th through January 17th:

• Why We Misremember All Those Famous Movie Quotes – "Play it again, Sam." "Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable." "Me Tarzan, you Jane." "Come with me to the Casbah." "Greed …
• Was Barthes’s ‘Death Of The Author’ A Sort Of Deicide? – "In France, perhaps more than anywhere else, the secularisation of society (compounded by the Republic's struggle against the Roman Catholic…
• PBS CEO Vows To Increase Arts Programming – "PBS's cultural programming — which is expensive to produce and doesn't necessarily draw the largest viewership — has gradually become mar…
• It’s Official: Sitting In Front Of The TV Shortens Your Life – "Researchers found that each hour a day spent watching TV was linked with an 18% greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, an 11% g…
• NBC Says It Will Lose Money On Olympics – "NBC paid $820 million for the rights to televise the Winter Games. That compares to the $613 million paid for the rights to televise the Ol…

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for January 6th through January 11th:

• Sign Out Forever – Our previous post on Next Nature learned that The Good People behind Webwill provide us with a service to extend our lives on social networ…
• Photoshop before there were computers: "The Art of Retouching and Improving Negatives and Prints" – One of my finds of a trip to Troubadour Books (which might be the closest you can get to being inside Borges' Library of Babel; see a coupl…
• The most expensive liquid – Printer ink is assumed to be the most expensive liquid on Earth. If you believe the many websites that quoted the figure above. But little …
• 3-D TV: Coming Soon To A Living Room Near You? – "A full-fledged 3-D television turf war is brewing in the United States, as manufacturers unveil sets capable of 3-D and cable programmers r…
• Avatar Breaks Another Record, For Film Piracy – Director James Cameron "had predicted that the film's 3D technology would deter online theft, but almost one million pirate copies were down…

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for December 23rd through January 2nd:

• John Baldessari at Sprueth Magers – Artist: John Baldessari
  Venue: Sprueth Magers, Berlin
  Exhibition Title: Hands And/Or Feet (Part Two)
  Date: November 20, 2009 – January 16, …
• Virtual Realities by NL Architects – Some beautiful “visual thoughts” by NL Architects. On the left: Minimum Speed 200 kh/h. On the right: United Airlines. (more…)
  Design for d…
• The Semiotics Of The Dude – "The Big Lebowski has spawned its own shaggy, fervid world: drinking games, Halloween costumes, bumper stickers ('This aggression will n…
• TV Revenues Plummet In 2009 – "Network television revenue fell 21.5 percent, and syndicated television stumbled a relatively benign 7.2 percent, according to a report fro…
• The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan –  
  A candid conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media

  From “The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan”, Playboy …

• Bill would lower volume of loud TV ads – It's after dinner. You're tired. You ease yourself into a comfortable place to watch your favorite TV show. Suddenly you're jolted from your…

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for December 21st through December 22nd:

• The year tech changed us – Engineers didn't make huge improvements to technology in 2009. The year's big tech names — Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon — all …
• Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights – To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes….
• Cut Down On TV And — Presto! — Become Less Sedentary – "Overweight adults who cut their viewing in half for three weeks used about 120 more calories a day than a similar group of viewers, who con…
• Santa And The Tooth Fairy Help Kids Grapple With Reality – "For years, imagination was thought of as a way for children to escape from reality, and once they reached a certain age, it was believed th…
• The Unreality Of "Reality" TV – "Certainly, as a concept, reality programming offers the possibility, and rare actuality, of personal drama and cultural revelation. But fro…
• Opinion: DVD security beats Pentagon’s – It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster: A group of insurgents hack into American military drones, using software they got off th…

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for December 14th through December 18th:

• Archaeologist finds ruins of ‘Friendster’ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mFJdOsjJ0k&rel=0

  Last month internet archaeologist Dr Maxwell Fry stumbled upon the perfectly preserve…

• Werner Herzog: ‘I’ve Always Made Mainstream Movies’ – "Because when you have a real good story to tell, real good actors, it's always mainstream. Sometimes in a way it was secret mainstream. But…
• Scientists spot nearby ’super-Earth’ – Astronomers announced this week they found a water-rich and relatively nearby planet that's similar in size to Earth.

  .end_gr_to_omnino…

• House Votes To Muffle Commercials’ Ear-Splitting Volume – "Irritated by loud commercials, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., drafted the measure after discovering it was a common complaint with the Federal …
• Was One Man Motivating Americans To Go To The Movies? – "You may not know his name — Don LaFontaine (also known as 'The Voice') — but you certainly know his work. He's the guy with the ominous v…

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant

Auto generated list of links of shared on Google Reader for November 29th through December 14th:

• Larry Sultan Dies at 63 – Shared by Bryant
  He came to VCU and told me that my videos were not slick enough.
  Incredibly sad news this morning: "Larry Sultan, a highly…
• Larry Sultan Dies at 63 – Incredibly sad news this morning: "Larry Sultan, a highly influential California photographer whose 1977 collaboration, 'Evidence' – a book …
• Paramount Plans Division For ‘Micro-Budget’ Movies – "Fresh off its stunning Paranormal Activity success - a $15,000 thriller that has grossed more than $107 million in its domestic release wit…
• Will the Placebo Effect Drive Medicine Out of Business? – WIRED's feature on the increasing effectiveness of placebo drugs — those tablets of inert sugar designed to present a baseline measurement …
• Despite Tech Revolution, TV Still Rules – "Entertainment technology has been moving beyond television lately, leading some to suggest TV is in decline. Not true. TV screens live all …

Filed under:
Shared Items by Bryant