Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is going the route of Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and others and releasing his latest work, Slacker Uprising on the Internet as a free download. According to Moore, it’s the first major feature-length film by a noted director to debut for free via the internet. Slacker Uprising traces Michael Moore’s 62-city tour of […]

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A new survey has found that digital video recorders are not just indispensable, they may even improve your love life.

Amazon today announced Amazon Video On Demand, a new video service that lets customers watch ad-free movies and television shows on Macs or PCs. Previously, customers could only download titles and watch them on a PC (using the Amazon Unbox application) or on their TiVo box. Now customers can either watch instantly within their web […]

Want to get your politics when you want, rather than in the snappy 5 second soundbites you get from mainstream news? You can subscribe to podcasts of both the 2008 Republican National Convention (iTunes link) and the Democratic National Convention and get the party line on demand. Or – if you think that party rhetoric […]

Several sources are reporting, unofficially, that Apple will be introducing a new version of iTunes next Tuesday. While this is an unofficial rumor, it seems likely, since it’s been close to 2 years since iTunes 7 was released. Here’s a rundown of expected features for iTunes 8: Genius iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists […]

For the last three years, we’ve been wondering why Paris Hilton was the first celebrity podcaster. You may recall that, back in 2005, when most people had no idea what a podcast was, Hilton was featured in The Paris Hilton Podcast, considered by some to be the worst podcast of all time. Now a new […]

Apple has sent out invitations for a Sept 9 event in San Francisco. While the “Let’s Rock” event is sure to offer new iPods, there are two more important questions I’m interested to see answered: Will Jobs address concerns about his health? His last appearance has left people questioning his health, to the point that […]

Rapid adoption of the iPhone 3G has led iPhone Safari’s browser usage share to jump 58% in one month, going from .19% in July to .30% in August. If the trend continues, iPhone Safari’s browser share is on target to see at least 500% annual growth. To put the current numbers in perspective, about 1 […]

Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, journalists with the syndicated news program Democracy Now, were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department Monday and charged with conspiracy to riot. According to a statement from Democracy Now: Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained. They are […]

If Lord Vader, the dark lord of the Sith, were a high school math teacher, this is probably how he would explain the Pythagorean Theorem. Via learnmegood – a third-grade math teacher in Dallas, TX.