
Another week passes. It's been a good week for yours truly, but now I feel a cold coming on and tonight is poker night. Could be a fatal combination ahead of the weekend.
Still, my bloggies have come through with some entertaining reading matter. Mark points to this about the obsessive list man
Ben Schott. And this on why Hollywood isn't in any hurry to make
decent movies. Because the big studios are actually doing very well thank you. He also like
this on whether God is an accident (and muses whether he's covered by ACC).
Stephen got
this, on the Wizard of Oz, from
Pop Bitch.
NZBC cub reporter Joe Bowman (11) has uncovered some scary anti-Catholic, anti-gay, anti-Muslim
tracts from so-called Christian cartoonist Jack Chick. And NZBC
interviewee Douglas Rushkoff, has
blogged the second in his series of "Thought Viruses" from his forthcoming book,
Get Back In The Box: Innovation From The Inside Out.
Evolvetv.tv, Chris says, is an interesting idea from
these guys. They've been piloting what they describe as "reality-based broadcasting", which involves experts debating topics in the news in video-blog format. As they say, "When CNN is more painful to watch than Fox … there quite simply must be a market for an alternative." Co-founder Jeremy also has a
blog, of course.
The Aboriginal art industry is now worth billions to the Australian economy, but the bubble seems to have burst. That may be no bad thing, says
Germaine Greer.
And, via Arts and Letters, this, by J. Peder Zane, at triangle.com - today's kids might think we're shit and past it, but what are they doing about it?
Nothing, it seems, because they just don't care.
Ciao.