I have no idea when this happened, but some time not too long ago, very quietly MTV’s The State was added to the iTunes Store!
You can download the first 6 episodes for only $1.99 an episode. A statement on The State’s official site says:
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Check out the Japanese versions of the Apple v. Mac ads here. Note that the Mac doesn’t come across as a smug cockey hipster like in the US ads!
I was lucky enough to catch a recent bit on PBS’s modern arts showcase, SPARK, about LA-based painter Sandow Birk. He said that he was staying in San Francisco for a week or so, and as he’d tell people he was from Los Angeles, their usual response wore on him. He got tired of hearing their diatribes against the smog, and traffic, and all the other things people tend to hate about The City of Angels, and thus, he was inspired to create.
I love Aperture.
If you take a good amount of photos with your digital camera, and love organization, Aperture is for you. Like iPhoto, you can rate your photos, and keep Smart Albums, but you can also take your organization to a whole new level with a robust Keyword system as well as keeping “stacks”. Another great feature I love is the Master vs. Version model. Aperture uses what’s called “non-destructive” editing, meaning that your original files are never altered. When you make adjustments, the changes are saved in a little bit of text that acts as a recipe for the computer to show you what you’ve done, allowing you to make tons of versions and save crazy amounts of hard drive space!
Hacking Democracy: The trouble with Diebold
Google Video is hosting an incredible documentary on Diebold electronic voting systems, produced by HBO and Black Box Voting. The documentary chronicles the horrific problems with the electronic voting systems used to count approximately 87% of all votes, uncovered by a good-hearted American woman. After Diebold erroneously published the entire suite of tools and software used by their machines to their public FTP site, Black Box Voting went on to discover an amazing web of lies and mistakes, and ultimately how easy it would be for someone to steal an election.
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