In the aftermath of Kobe Bryant’s arrest, all kinds of conspiracy theories are floating around. The one getting the most publicity is that this whole incident was staged to give Kobe more street credibility. Here are two good articles which put that theory to the test: Sneaker Pimpin? Will brush with law raise Kobe’s ‘street… Continue reading Kobe’s Street Cred
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Black, Hispanic Players Hold Up Better in Heat?
Dusty Baker may have played himself with this statement – Black, Hispanic players hold up better in heat. We’ve started a little discussion about that in a previous post, but I thought this was worthy of its own post. My view is that Dusty is generally correct about darker skinned people handling the sun better… Continue reading Black, Hispanic Players Hold Up Better in Heat?
How Innovation Can Save Entertainment
Here’s a topic that I often write about: the state of the music industry, especially with regard to file sharing. How to Save the World has a good article examining how the entertainment industry can adapt to the wild world of P2P file sharing. Here’s a snippet: At the same time consumers have become increasingly… Continue reading How Innovation Can Save Entertainment
Kobe Arrested!
Say it ain’t so Kobe! Kobe Bryant has been arrested on a felony count of sexual assault. This is really difficult for me to believe becasue it seems totally out of character for Kobe. It should be really interesting to see this story unfold.
PaperBagTest.com?
GetUnderground.com has an excellent critique of LightSkinPeople.com. Here’s a snippet: “Are light-skinned people hard up for dates or something?” my friend Carol scoffs when I call her to discuss Rome’s new venture. Carol is a brown-skinned sister who’s fed up to the teeth with comments like “You’re pretty to be so dark,” so this discriminatory… Continue reading PaperBagTest.com?
Book Club that Blogs
This book club, Zuly’s Reading Room, looks like a great idea: Zuly’s Reading Room is a place to talk about books that you’re reading. We don’t all read the same book at the same time. Instead, we just talk about the book we’re reading at the present time. If other people have read it, they… Continue reading Book Club that Blogs
AOL’s Journals
Here’s a review of AOL’s coming blogging tool, AOL Journals. It looks like they’re doing it the right way. They’re even including RSS/XML (hello Blog*Spot). The article also has some interesting thoughts on the future of blogging.
Happy 4th
The Gothamist has a post which contains some links to help learn about the history of Independence Day.
KaZaA Lite K++ Edition
It’s time to give up KaZaA Lite for the K++ Edition. (I hope none of you are still using plain kaZaA!) K++ adds the following to KaZaA Lite’s features: Disallow others from seeing the files on your hard drive. ‘Search More’ an unlimited number of times. Download from up to 40 sources at once. Cheat… Continue reading KaZaA Lite K++ Edition
The Sad State of Music
I second and third the emotions of two posts about music I’ve read recently. The first (Grown Folks’ Music) laments the music being played on radio these days. I gave up on radio long ago, but I remember loving to listen to radio (especially KDAY and KJLH) in Los Angeles when I was a kid.… Continue reading The Sad State of Music