Midnite Movies: Thirteen to Centarus

A JG Ballard story adapted for a British Twilight Zone-esque show calle Out of the Unknown. Great sci-fi from a great mind.

Everything is Permissable...

I don't even know how to react to this ad. Mostly with horror, but it affects me on a number of other levels beyond that.

the Shock Doctrine

With Alfon Cuaron, director of "Children of Men" and Naomi Klein, comes this delightfully terrifying little film.

Midnite Movies: Claude Shannon Juggline Machine

Claude Shannon, the father of Information Theory, unicycling and juggling enthusiast, demonstrating his juggling automaton.

Video Bizarre

Attention video junkies, psychotic maniacs, gore freaks, exploitation mavens, and cult covetists: come check out and join, and contribute to this great new community over at Video Bizarre. Destined to be a haven for the aforementioned characters. You know, people like me give or take. Regardless, it's an exciting little pocket of the internet I have recently found, and I'm just doing my part to fill it out. See you there.

Surface to Air

I'm sure the tech blogs have been abuzz with jabber about this for months, but I still think it's pretty cool. I'm not saying that I need one, or that this is even the revolutionary machine. I think rather that it hints at the future thinning of boudaries between interaction with digital interfaces. I find what Surface implies to be much more interesting than what it does.

Balanced Anarchy

I think it is both refreshing and inspiring to go back from time to time, and hear of the hope that so many great thinkers once put into the internet. Before there was MySpace and all the other junk now clogging up the tubes, there was that glimmer of utopian hope that many of the old revolutionaries scorned. That many of us have forgotten about. That is still out there today. But for how much longer? Keep the internet anarchistic; it will never happen again.

James Burk from his series, The Day the Universe Changed.

The Strange Case of Charlie Ours

For THIS, these kids have been expelled (later reinstated) and now sued by a teacher who they allegedly parody in the film. You can read all about the story here(s):
IndyStar
BoingBoing
Muzzie Award
ABC News
Fox News
MSNBC

This case is of particular interest to me because I grew up with Charlie Ours' brother, Joey Ours. He has sadly passed away, but we were the best of friend and play in the rocking and way ahead of their time punk band the Koaskies when we were about 13. We also made many movies almost EXACTLY this stupid! They never broke the 10 minute mark, whereas this one is supposed to be over an hour, and we never got into any trouble, so good for Charlie. He's already much further along than Joey or I ever made it. Give em hell kids. Now that you've got the Blogosphere at your back, that teacher is probably going to be in a world of trouble he never could have imagined.

Humanity Lobotomoy: Save the Internet

I'm sick of preaching to the choir. Anyone who is watching this video on the internet already agrees on this issue. It's no longer a question of that. It's a question of stopping these giants before they squash us out. Or we can all just look forward to becoming internet outlaws.

the History of Hacking

An interesting look into the early days (Mitnik, Wozniak, Draper, etc...) of Hacking, or as I like to refer to them: really intelligent people.

2600 NY Hackers

Doc exploring the NY 2600 Hacker culture from it's history in the MIT model train club up through (nearly) present day. An interesting look at an important culture.

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Fantastic little video exploring the issues currently at hand when dealing with the Web. Rethinking indeed...

The Death of The Internet?

The importance of this struggle cannot be overstated. This is the last bastion, fine, only bastion of true democracy in the world. Protect our information.

via COA News