Watching a movie at home? Grab your iPhone – USATODAY.com »
Oh goody, more distractions. David Lynch will love this.

Oliver Stone Returns to Wall Street for a Sequel – NYTimes.com »
Michael Douglas returns as Gekko. Charlie Sheen will make a cameo. Other notes of interest:
Shia LaBeouf will star as a young trader engaged to Gekko’s daughter. Josh Brolin will be the head of an investment bank. Frank Langella (who was awesome as Nixon in [...]

“New product launch, that’s all I’m allowed to say. Hold off from buying an iPhone/Pre.
via Twitter / Office ‘10 the Movie
It’s Zune-related, and it’s coming in June. I have the sneaking suspicion this will backfire – but I’m holding my breath for a shit-brown ZunePhone.
Seriously though, what is this? Microsoft keeps insisting it’s [...]

Before I even wrote about tech regularly on this blog, I wrote about Battlestar Galactica — quite a bit. During most of its run, I think it was not only one of the best science fiction shows on television, but one of the best shows, period. And though I think it waned a bit towards [...]

At one point during season 2 of Lost I was sure it was a one-season wonder. Season 1 was great, but the second season was frustrating because it answered questions with more questions. This, unfortunately continued into season 3, but then about halfway through season 3, something happened and the show took a turn for [...]

I get around fairly well. I’ve been quoted a good amount on different sites large and small, have been on quite a few podcasts and even on public radio talking about tech. But what’s really cool is when I see an interesting article on CNN’s main page, click on it, and find myself quoted multiple [...]

A recent interview by paidContent of Jim Keyes, the CEO of Blockbuster, exposed that he is confused by all the success Netflix has had.

Wired pulled out the best line of the interview and has a great zinger at the end:
Equally bewildering to Mr. Keyes is the emphasis on catalog size. Why would anyone want to [...]

So it looks like Jack White (of The White Stripes) and Alicia Keys are teaming up for the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace’s theme song. That should be interesting, but the one below is going to be hard to top.

Here I was thinking the rise of digital distribution to the living room would simplify my home entertainment set up. Silly me. Instead, it’s about to make it much worse.
Take the latest news: LG is launching a new Blu-ray player which will have Netflix streaming capabilities. Naturally I want this. It’s Blu-ray and Netflix in [...]

Stephen Dubner has an interesting post on the Freakonomics blog about product placement on the AMC show Mad Men. It works just as you expect it might with any other popular show, expect that Mad Men takes place nearly 50 years ago, so the products being placed aren’t exactly hot items anymore.
Dubner details a book [...]