It’s worth pointing out that almost all the “magic” that has been developed around flash was already scoped out in 2007. It just takes a while for a whole new industry to mature. Individual die capacity increased, meaning fewer die are needed for a solution – and that means less… … Read More
Karl Malone to homophobic ESPN reporter: You won’t ‘kick over and die’ if you touch a gay player
Legendary NBA power forward Karl Malone, who once worried that he could be infected with HIV by playing ball with Magic Johnson, now says that a homophobic ESPN reporter needs to “move past” judging other people. After NBA player Jason Collins revealed that he was gay on Monday, ESPN…
Atheist Richard Dawkins: ‘Indoctrination of religion’ is ‘child abuse’
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on Sunday told a British literary festival that parents who forced their children to believe that religion was a fact were guilty of “child abuse.” Speaking about his family-friendly book The Magic of Reality at the Chipping Norton Literary…
Kickstarter might get you audited
“Crowdfunding isn’t a magic bullet,” Amanda Palmer once told the Daily Dot in regards to her blockbuster $1.1 million Kickstarter campaign.“You can’t crowdfund without a crowd, and you can’t start a project from scratch and get people interested in it. You need to have some degree of reach and some small starting point. You need someone to send that link to.”Since launching in 2009, Kickstarter has gone from a last-ditch resort to the method of choice for artists looking to fund their next creative endeavor. The platform has revolutionized the entertainment industry, allowing artists to turn directly to their online audience for financial support and, in doing so, freeing them from the pressure and restraints often associated with major-label contracts. In the last two years alone, more than $55 million has been raised for roughly 8,000 music-related projects.Continue Reading… … Read More
Did Rand Paul kill conservative opposition to immigration reform?
Rand Paul has some sort of magic touch, according to TPM’s Benjy Sarlin, as his immigration reform turnaround apparently convinced a room full of the sort of Republicans who refer to immigrants as “animals” that allowing many of them to seek citizenship wouldn’t necessarily be a horrible idea.Earlier this year I told everyone to be skeptical that immigration reform would pass, and one of the reasons I cited was the I thought rather obvious fact that House Republicans didn’t support it. Now Rand Paul nearly has me convinced it could pass the House with more Republican than Democratic support.Paul’s primary argument was to convince very conservative politicians that they could get away with supporting immigration reform, even though the president wants it and many conservative voters don’t. The strategy is to just use different words, basically.Continue Reading… … Read More
“Justified’s” flip violence
It’s an intense and feverish time for TV violence. Almost all of the best shows have gruesomeness and brutality in their repertoires, resorting to them often (“Breaking Bad,” “Game of Thrones,” “The Americans”) or just occasionally (Lane Pryce hanging from a door on “Mad Men”). Other, lesser shows attempt to use violence to prove their bonafides and seriousness of purpose (“Boardwalk Empire,” “Magic City,” “The Following”). Most comfort TV procedurals start with a murder or rape to get the plot going. And perhaps the most impressively, aggressively gross show ever put on television — “The Walking Dead”— is a massive hit. As Time critic James Poniewozik put it in a recent essay on this subject, “TV drama [has] become reflexively brutal.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Roger Ailes calls Obama “lazy” in new book
Vanity Fair released an excerpt from a new book about Roger Ailes by Zev Chafets, Rush Limbaugh’s biographer, called “Roger Ailes: Off Camera,” which includes some candid quotes from Ailes about everyone from President Obama to MSNBC to Newt Gingrich.Here are the highlights:On MSNBC:“M.S. is a damn disease”On Rupert Murdoch:“Does Rupert like me? I think so, but it doesn’t matter. When I go up to the magic room in the sky every three months, if my numbers are right, I get to live. If not, I’m killed. Our relationship isn’t about love—it’s about arithmetic. Survival means hitting your numbers. I’ve met or exceeded mine in 56 straight quarters. The reason is: I treat Rupert’s money like it is mine.”On Newt Gingrich:Brian Lewis, his spokesman, asked Ailes for guidance on how to respond to Newt. “Brush him back,” Ailes said. “He’s a sore loser and if he had won he would have been a sore winner.” Lewis nodded. Ailes was silent for a moment and then added, “Newt’s a prick.”On Obama:Continue Reading… … Read More
