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Reviews and commentary for the media whore inside us all.
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The French Scapegoat (Media)
By shinshin Thu Oct 20th, 2005 at 08:56:50 AM EST
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On this day 224 years ago, the British General Lord Charles Cornwallis offered his sword in surrender to the French General Rochambeau and General Lafayette, ending the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia. The defeat of the British to the combined French and American forces, coupled with the defeat of the British fleet by French Admiral de Grasse in the Battle of the Chesapeake, was a devastating blow to the British war effort and effectively ended the American Revolutionary War. A century later, the Statue of Liberty, the ubiquitious symbol of American liberty and freedom, was unveiled in New York Harbor on October 28, 1886 as a gift from the Fench to their "sister republic". Grover Cleveland accepted the statue with a speech: "It is a token of the gratitude and appreciation of France, assuring us that in our efforts to commend to the world a government by a free people, we have a steadfast ally, and can demonstrate the kinship of republics. We are not met to bow before a severe and warlike god, but to honor our own peaceful deity".A century after that, France is the most universally reviled Western country in the United States.
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The fallacy of Katrina Aid (Media)
By tannhaus Wed Sep 14th, 2005 at 05:19:59 AM EST
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I live right beside the New Orleans airport. I am a survivor of Hurricane Katrina. I keep seeing all these stories and press announcements about how we're receiving tons of aid. However, this is my story...the story from someone who was there and is still in this horrible situation.
I was a resident of Kenner, which is the suburb where the New Orleans airport is located.
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The 6 Indie Mistakes (Media)
By Chris Canfield Sat Jul 30th, 2005 at 01:42:02 PM EST
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If you spend much time in the game development industry, you start to see patterns. I was browsing around the David Perry designer forums, and came across quite a few interesting people bursting with designs. One particular one caught my eye, though. It sounded interesting. It sounded exciting. It sounded like an epic so grand it would put Cleopatra to shame. And it sounded utterly, utterly impossible to make. I won't single out the budding designer here for ridicule, but he had created a story so grand, a world so rich, that it would take a team of thousands several years to create. He, of course, had only himself, and no idea what to do to start.
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The methods and bias of the media (Media)
By walkingshark Thu Jul 28th, 2005 at 10:03:52 PM EST
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by Michael Leza
When most people watch a TV show, like Buffy or CSI or Survivor, they are well aware of the fact that everything they see is preplanned, scripted, and fully controlled. Days of planning, hard work, and post production have gone into that show to turn it from a jumble of video recordings into a coherent show.
What many of these same people are not aware of (and how could they be?) is that when they sit down to watch the nightly news, or their favorite artificial news-flavored product, they are in fact watching a show that has been just as managed, planned, and scripted as any episode of Seinfeld was.
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HOWTO: Make a file sharing system. (Media)
By Surial Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:02:22 AM EST
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The RIAA and many other local facsimiles in nations outside the USA are aggressively persuing file sharers. More and more files on the file sharing services available are fakes; they do not contain what they portend to be, or contain only 5 to 7 seconds on a loop. Leechers reduce the average download speed considerably. Some manage to circumvent most of these problems but do not offer satisfactory search.
In short, there are plenty of reasons why it's time to introduce Yet Another File Sharing Service. This time, let's do it right.
Read on for a detailed description of how solve all the problems that current file sharing systems are struggling with.
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Amazon.com, Ebooks and "Chump Change" (Media)
By rjnagle Mon May 16th, 2005 at 11:54:13 PM EST
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What is Amazon up to these days? Are they the friend or foe of the independent writer?
Amazon's recent purchase of two companies (Booksurge and Mobipocket) hints at a future business strategy geared not only to the long tail concept but also self-publishing in general.
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