“Stanley Kubrick’s films were landmark events ó majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films grew longer and longer, and less and less was seen of the director. What on earth was he doing? Two years after his death, Jon Ronson was invited to the Kubrick estate and let loose among the fabled archive. He was looking for a solution to the mystery ó this is what he found.”
“If everyone’s a criminal, maybe the law is wrong. That’s the contention of Lawrence Lessig, who you might just say is DJ Danger Mouse’s patron saint. Lessig, a professor at Stanford University Law School, is one of the leading advocates for changing copyright law. Via his popular blog, as well as in various books and media appearances, Lessig promotes the view that any system that makes criminals out of millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens ó like the more than 100,000 people who have downloaded Danger Mouse’s ‘The Grey Album,’ a groundbreaking but illegal mix of the Beatles’ ‘The White Album’ and Jay-Z’s ‘The Black Album’ ó is a broken system. The law must be updated to reflect the new digital reality, Lessig contends. But in that brave new digital world, how will artists pay their rent? Enter Internet pioneer Ken Waagner, who oversees all things online for the Chicago band Wilco. When a record label rejected Wilco’s ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ three years ago, Waagner and the band decided to put a streaming version of the entire album on the Wilco Web site. Commercial suicide, said music-industry conventional wisdom.”
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“Almost everyone searches Google to find information, and Google quickly rewards them by displaying the information they are seeking. Thereby, Google rewards useful sites with the eyes of people who are looking for useful information. This is helping the web recover from being the wasteland of marketing hype, which the dot-come-and-gone explosion forced it to become. Google is saving the web by ultimately forcing site designers to make their sites useful again… I keep this page to help people understand how to design their sites for maximum effectivness. Please let me know if anything on this page is misleading, needs updating or additions.”
“Do you still have nagging questions in your mind about lenses, aperatures and exposure? Are you confused about circles of confusion? You might be surprised to discover that even many published textbooks present misleadingly kooky information on the subject of basic lens optics. Would you like to have a more intuitive grasp of how a lens works?”
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