NRK launches bittorrent tracker

Interesting turn of events in the wake of the spectrial (the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, read further below). NRK, Norway’s public service channel, just announced that they are launching a bittorrent tracker based on the same code as The Pirate Bay (the OpenTracker software). Initially they’ll use it to offer their shows for download. […]

Coen brothers’ comment on “clean coal”

Check out this short film made by the Coen brothers commissioned by Thisisreality.org – it so puts the weird ‘clean coal’ notion into perspective. Read the Boing Boing blog post where I found it.

Funeral for analog tv

On a less serious note, the tech-geek inside me really enjoyed this little bit (see video below). It stars Bruce Sterling, whose book ‘Shaping Things’ I conincidentilly just picked up in Amsterdam. Check out the Boing Boing blog posting (where I found the video).

Shooting in the NY subway

All of us who has ever visited New York has sneaked into shooting a few pictures in the subway, even if it is not allowed. The setting is so compelling and each subway station has its own unique and indeed very photogenic identity that gives everyone with a camera an itchy trigger finger. However, it […]

US bailout costs costs more than Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, moonshot, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq war, Vietnam war, and NASA’s lifetime budget — *combined*!

Interesting and immensely scary fact posted on the Boing Boing blog: Barry Ritholtz sez, “In doing the research for the “Bailout Nation” book, I needed a way to put the dollar amounts into proper historical perspective. If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars. People have a hard […]