December
17, 2002 -
Burn, Baby, Burn - The real
threat to the music biz isn’t P2P – it’s
CD-Rs swapped on the street. By Paul
Boutin, Wired Magizine, Three and a
half years after Napster’s launch, online
song-swapping is dead in the water. A
dogged legal campaign by the Recording
Industry Association of America has shut
down the best services, Napster and
Audiogalaxy. The good ones – KaZaA and
Morpheus – are on the run...
December
06, 2002 -
From the
Bronx, a drug ‘Empire’ - By David Elliott, SPECIAL TO
MSNBC.COM, John Leguizamo has been so keyed up and “on” in movies
like “Moulin Rouge,” “Summer of Sam” and “Romeo & Juliet,” perhaps
overloaded by his solo stage shows in New York, that he seems to be
having an almost out-of-ego experience in “Empire...”
December
06, 2002 -
Video May Kill Satellite's Star - By Dustin Goot, WiredNews,
ANAHEIM, California -- Broadband Plus, formerly the Western Cable
Show, opened this week with a call to arms from the chairman of the
California Cable and Telecommunications Association: Cable companies
must "stop the bleeding that's going to DBS (satellite)..."
December, 2002 -
Solaris, Rediscovered -
Issue 10.12 Wired Print
Edition, By Gary Wolf, STANISLAW
LEM MADE HARD SCIENCE AND DEEP
PHILOSOPHY INTO SOME OF THE
GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION YOU'VE
NEVER SEEN. NOW HIS CLASSIC
SOLARIS IS GETTING THE HOLLYWOOD
TREATMENT. Stanislaw Lem has
never been beloved by the
science fiction establishment.
Philip K. Dick accused him of
being a communist agent. Members
of the Science Fiction Writers
Association booted him from
their group. And no wonder: Lem
has denounced popular sci-fi as
trivial pulp produced by mental
weaklings. Science fiction, he
once wrote, "is a whore,"
prostituting itself "with
discomfort, disgust, and
contrary to its dreams and
hopes." But strained relations
with his peers hasn't tarnished
Lem's career. The author of
dozens of books translated into
40 languages, he is considered
among the greatest sci-fi
writers of all time...
December 09, 2002 -
The
origins of ‘White Christmas’ - How Irving Berlin’s throwaway
song became a holiday classic. THE TODAY SHOW. When Irving Berlin
first conceived the song “White Christmas,” he envisioned it as a
“throwaway” — a satirical novelty number for a vaudeville-style stage
revue. By the time Bing Crosby introduced the tune in the winter of
1942, it had evolved into something far more. Read an excerpt of Jody
Rosen’s “White Christmas,” to learn more about this holiday classic...
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