Occasionally you see these stories about people deciding to do without their smart phones for a day, or a week, or possibly 10 days, just to see if it can be done — or if their heads will indeed explode from sheer lack of connectedness, as seen in the 1981 movie Scanners. As of […]
Music for a song? That’s theft
I’m not outraged that Apple has bumped the price of its music downloads a cool 30 percent, a move followed a day later by Amazon and then by Wal-Mart. I’m not sure why they don’t raise the price 50 percent, or 100 percent, or 1,000. The music industry is on the ropes, after all, […]
Same old content, new higher price
As much as I liked The Man From U.N.C.L.E as a kid, I don’t recall ever lusting to see any particular episode more than once. In fact, we’d usually scorn the summer reruns as being beneath our dignity. Same with Bonanza, or Mannix, or Petticoat Junction. You’d fight for a place in front of […]