Pop Culture | Nov 19, 2009
Video of the Week: Clean It Up
Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. Chicago-based street artist Goons uses paper and stop-motion to create a one minute clip for all the clean-freaks and germaphobes out there. By Emmanuel Hapsis
Pop Culture | Nov 12, 2009
Video of the Week: Ready, Able
Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. Artist Allison Schulnik uses stop-motion claymation to make the most amazingly bizarre Grizzly Bear music video to date. By Emmanuel Hapsis
Pop Culture | Nov 01, 2009
Listening to the Zeitgeist on Blip.fm
I'm a reluctant participant in social networking mania. I don't even want to know what Google Wave is, but am sure that in a week or two I'll be completely hooked. So on that note, here's another site to add to the mix: Blip.fm. By Molly Samuel
Pop Culture | Oct 29, 2009
Video of the Week: Bloody Belly Comb Jelly
Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. The bloody belly comb jelly proves it can be scarier than a cemetery and a haunted house combined. By Emmanuel Hapsis
Pop Culture | Oct 25, 2009
Is Apple Eating Itself?
Apple's electronic gizmos are well-built gadgets, granted, but the company's product announcements now attract the kind of feeding frenzy most Hollywood studios and record labels can only dream of. But, while others may gaze enviously on, celebrity status comes at a price. By Keith Laidlaw
Pop Culture | Oct 22, 2009
Video of the Week: 1950s Motorcycle Formations
Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. In a clip from the 1950s, Italian police officers wow crowds with coordinated motorcycle formations. By Emmanuel Hapsis
Pop Culture | Oct 08, 2009
Video of the Week: 4-Year-Old Finnish Rappers
Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. Four-year-old Finnish rappers bust a rhyme about riding the train and the wonders of flushing the toilet. By Emmanuel Hapsis
Pop Culture | Oct 01, 2009
Video of the Week: A Glorious Dawn
Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. Your inner geek will want to check out A Glorious Dawn, Carl Sagan's hot new single feauturing Stephen Hawking. I smell Grammy. By Emmanuel Hapsis
Pop Culture | Sep 24, 2009
Video of the Week: Drunk Vervet Monkeys
Every Thursday, the KQED Arts blog features a new Video of the Week to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. A BBC report adds another similarity between monkeys and humans to the list: both species like to get their drink on! By Emmanuel Hapsis
Pop Culture | Sep 10, 2009
Video of the Week: Meet the Elements
Video of the Week has moved its bad self to Thursdays to help you forget that it isn't Friday yet. Boing Boing pairs up with They Might Be Giants on Meet the Elements, a cutesy educational video about the elements of the periodic table. By Emmanuel Hapsis
NPR Topics: Digital Life
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'Googled': From Brainchild To Behemoth
How much do you know about the company that knows so much about you? In Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, Ken Auletta chronicles the growth of Google, from the brainchild of two computer science graduate students, toiling in a California garage, to the multi-billion dollar, multi-nation corporation it is today.
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AOL Cutting One-Third Of Staff
Internet icon AOL plans to cut about a third of its staff, or about 2,500 jobs. Time Warner, the New York media conglomerate, said this week that it will spin AOL off to investors Dec. 9.
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Was Internet Complicit In Fort Hood Shooting?
From what is publicly known about Maj. Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 in a rampage at Fort Hood, he had no accomplice — unless you count the Internet in which he communed, exchanging sinister thoughts with an extremist cleric.
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Watching TV On Your Computer
Omar Gallaga, technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman, explores the latest technology options for watching television on your computer and vice versa. Gallaga says there is more aggregation of television content on the Internet in the form of search engines and new Web sites.










