links for 2007-12-08
Posted by derickson on Dec 8th, 2007
2007
Dec 8
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The Humphrey Institute hosts many guest speakers throughout the year and these special events will now be made available online for anyone to download at no cost.
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Watch The Crimson Permanent Assurance, Monty Python’s hilarious parody of 1980s corporate America.
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Batman and Spider-Man tag-team bitch-slapping an apparently innocent civilian in front of the Chinese Theater on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, as a crowd watches in amazement.
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The Pocket Films Festival in Japan, which organizers say is the first in this nation, marks yet another use for the omnipresent portable phone here, already used to exchange e-mail, surf the Internet, read novels and navigate on miniature digital maps.
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JetBlue Airways Corp. will start offering limited e-mail and instant messaging services for free on one of its planes next week as airlines renew efforts to offer in-flight Internet access.
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Drew became an outcast after she participated in a hoax in which a fictional teenager by the name of "Josh Evans" exchanged online messages with 13-year-old Megan Meier. Megan received cruel messages from Josh that apparently drove her to hang herself in
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More than 800 years later, about 17 copies survive, and one of those, signed by King Edward I in 1297, will go up for sale Dec. 18 at Sotheby’s.
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"Look" suggests the cameras that increasingly blanket society are both a blessing and a curse. Rifkin’s cameras catch people cheating on their spouses, criminals murdering a police officer and attractive women farting in elevators
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Analysts say Dell must expand its presence in stores because consumers increasingly see computers as an extension of their personality, and want to touch them before buying.
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As her performance began, the room filled with electronic beeps and buzzes of a 1980’s video game pulsing to a danceable beat, as if Mario were hosting a rave. As heads bopped in the audience, Kim proudly held up her instrument: a Nintendo Game Boy.
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Gatorade in a jelly bean. Who knew?
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Coke is introducing its online island within a larger virtual world site called there.com that tries to filter out unsavory content.
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An online virtual world.
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This is a remarkable oral history by a man who was stationed at Hickman Field next to Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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GreenMark provides customized services in green strategy, sponsorship, policy development, branding and communications.
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An open source search engine project.