If you want to change the world you have to have to strong shoulders. It would never be enough for Ava DuVernay to have made Middle of Nowhere, a film she funded by herself (for around $200,000). She also had to work with her distribution company to get that film into theaters. That proved more difficult than she thought it would. Turns out, the art house crowd is...
Monthly Archives: October 2012
As I was reading this story it occurred to me that the Republicans will try to use ye aulde false equivalency to try to say that the airing of this film, Seal Team Six two days before the election is as bad as a cable company in Ohio showing the propaganda fakumentary, Obama’s America 2016. It isn’t. One is based on a true story. The other is political propaganda....
Microsoft’s debut of the Surface family of tablets wowed on several levels yesterday, not the least of which is the fact that Redmond will be moving into direct competition with some of the hardware partners it relied upon to build the dominance of Windows. Acer and Lenovo have both shown off Windows 8 tablets in recent weeks, with Dell, HP, and others expected to...
Microsoft’s debut of the Surface family of tablets wowed on several levels yesterday, not the least of which is the fact that Redmond will be moving into direct competition with some of the hardware partners it relied upon to build the dominance of Windows. Acer and Lenovo have both shown off Windows 8 tablets in recent weeks, with Dell, HP, and others expected to...
What is that sound? Oh, that’s the sound of panic. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the spigot for unlimited spending on candidates by Super PACs and while Obama’s campaign is taking in substantial donations it can’t compare to dump-trucks of cash the Romney campaign commands. So many billions of dollars are at stake here,...