There's Bound To Be Bargains

10/31/08 08:51 PM Filed in: Play

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If You Won't Listen to Me...

10/29/08 09:16 PM Filed in: Play

Merlin Mann is the guy behind the blog 43 Folders. It’s hard to describe the site but it’s focus is on helping you to get things done. Anything.

And he’s got passions. Lots of them. But one of the things he’s most passionate about is the HBO series The Wire. That DVD set you keep meaning to watch. If you could only find the time.

I know. I know. You’re sick of people talking that damn show. And it’s off the air now anyway so who cares? Merlin does. And I dare you to read his piece about the show and not come away at least a little intrigued.

Seriously. Seriously. Find the time.

The War of the Worlds

10/26/08 12:42 PM Filed in: Play

Seventy years ago. He adapted the novel. Assembled the actors. And changed entertainment history. The website The Mercury Theater on the Air has the audio files of his most famous radio drama along with more that you've probably never heard of or listened to. Go on over there. You're in for a treat. And, with Halloween just around the corner, if you're up for a truly creepy radio drama from the golden era of creepy radio dramas get over to Escape and Suspense! They've got a story (scroll down) called "Three Skeleton Key" read by Vincent Price. Listen to it in the dark. If you've got kids young enough to be scared pissless then by all means, park them in front of the speakers.

Placing Product in Your 30 Rock

10/23/08 11:21 PM Filed in: Work

In this age of TiVo (did I capitalize the right letters?) advertisers are being increasingly forced to outsmart what used to be a semi-docile, sometimes captive audience. They always wanted to trick you into buying something. Now they really want to trick you. And they’ve enlisted some major (stars’) help. Check out this fantastic article in New York Magazine’s online edition about the lengths some Mad Men will go to snag your eyeball.

Porn in the Afternoon

10/21/08 08:14 AM Filed in: Play

“...we acted very fast to get it off.” – Nancy Cottenden, Director of Communications for Rogers Cable.

Murdoch, Redstone & The Credit Crunch

10/21/08 08:03 AM Filed in: Work

Interesting article by Julia Boorstin over at the CNBC site.

The credit crunch is hitting the whole media sector — and hard. Two media moguls in particular, Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch, have seen their firms' stock prices hammered. But they're finding themselves in diverse spots and they're spinning their situations quite differently.

Distracted? Let Colin Explain It All For You

10/19/08 10:52 AM

Digital. Not Digitalis.

10/16/08 10:58 AM Filed in: Play

50 Years Ago Today

10/16/08 07:50 AM Filed in: Work

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Lights in a box. The New York Times explains it all.

The Object of My Affliction

10/14/08 10:30 PM Filed in: Play

Apple dropped some new hardware today. In spite of the fact that I’ve got more Macs than I know what to do with... I want. Check it here.

Disaster Coverage

10/11/08 08:00 AM Filed in: Play

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Another Sci Fi and More Channel

10/06/08 10:21 PM Filed in: Play

Remember when TV used to promise to take you places you’d never been and show you wondrous things? The AMC Network is beginning to convince me that it remembers that promise. MAD MEN is part of that. Writer/director Michael Nankin is working on a series set in WWII about downed B-17 fliers trapped behind enemy lines. And the novel Carter Beats the Devil about the trials and adventures of an early 20th Century magician is slated for production. As the networks keep regurgitating the same old same old it’s heartening and inspiring to see AMC (and A&E) reaching up to embrace ambitious stories that can elevate and entertain.