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Jun

The future is (almost) here.

Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir overviews the currently available crop of online movie delivery sites.  The most promising one for film buffs is probably The Auteurs, which focuses on cinephile-oriented classics and has a Hulu-like interface, clean and easy to use.  Watching Agnès Varda’s French New Wave classic Cléo From 5 to 7 streaming online, for free?  That is most certainly win, my friends.

09

Jun

A brief history of social media.

It’s funny, reading this article not only brought back memories of the good ol’ days, it made me realize that I’ve dabbled in every sort of category of social media since the beginning, including phone phreaking, which I’m sure is an alien idea to most people today.

The ironic thing is that I’m not all that social to begin with.