Category Archives: News & Commentary

Shield Your Eyes

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Andy Rush

  Flickr Photo courtesy of Sellers Patton I wonder if Fox Interactive/News Corp. had any influence on the policy of Photobucket considering babies in diapers as “nudity”. Their terms of service lists nudity as one of the restrictions when uploading … Continue reading →

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Voting – Why don’t you explain it to me

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Andy Rush

  ‘Tis the season . . .

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PCs Play Hi-Def Discs, Will Apple Finally Join?

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Andy Rush

  Even with Apple’s Leopard and its more then 300(!) new features, Blu-ray playback isn’t one of them. Yet. Macworld is this week and rumors are starting about Apple launching into the high-definition disc fray. Will it be Blu-ray only? … Continue reading →

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Stay At Home Servers

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Andy Rush

Microsoft has a sense of humor, as I confirmed a while ago, but what about for real products? Will they be able to market something well when it counts? Based on the site Stay At Home Servers , I’d say … Continue reading →

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Covering Up Good Luck Symbols?

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Andy Rush

  As much as anything else, the purpose of this post is to demonstrate once again how technology is literally changing our lives. This Times story describes how the Navy is spending $600,000 to camouflage a building on the Coronado … Continue reading →

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Lessig’s New Direction

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Andy Rush

Some interesting news was brought to my attention this morning, via Wes Fryer, that Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig will be shifting his focus from academic work, to what he calls the “corruption” of the political process. He states that … Continue reading →

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More Online News

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Andy Rush

Immigration: The Human Cost Sometimes “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” just aren’t enough. If you agree with that statement then you’ll be happy to know that The Onion is now doing video. Introducing the Onion News Network. From … Continue reading →

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Re-selecting the Times

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Andy Rush

I was disappointed that they created Times Select in the first place, but at least now you can access the archive of articles online for free from the convenience of your web browser. That is if you have a “.edu” … Continue reading →

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Winds of Change Part II

Posted on January 7, 2007 by Andy Rush

So it turns out that Demetri Martin, who I know from The Daily Show and who appeared in Microsoft’s Soapbox video sharing site, is doing a whole series of videos for Microsoft called Clearification. You can tell after a few … Continue reading →

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Winds of Change

Posted on January 7, 2007 by Andy Rush

Kodak – “They’re going to turn the schmaltz back up to 11″ How’s that for a tag line. This is one of those internal company videos that got released to the public, ala the “Microsoft Designs the iPod Package” and … Continue reading →

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