The Kiffin Era starts tonight. Full coverage at the newly-revamped TrojanWire.

The Kiffin Era starts tonight. Full coverage at the newly-revamped TrojanWire.

And Vinyly: Turn Your Ashes Into A Hip Vinyl Record

I like the medium, but settling on a final message sounds like the most difficult task imaginable. [via]

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, only 20 percent of American adults reported using digital tools to communicate with their neighbors or stay informed about community issues at least once in the past year. Only one in 10 reported reading a community blog at least once in the past year.
Barb Palzer, The Hazards of Hyperlocal (American Journalism Review)
Looking forward to trying this out next week.

Looking forward to trying this out next week.

The Race for the Second Screen (Redux)

Apple: Apple TV box currently plays videos purchased with iTunes on a TV set; wants to offer 99-cent rentals of new TV shows, making big announcement today and stream it live on Apple.com.

 Amazon.com: Sells on-demand videos playable on set-top boxes and TVs; wants to offer unlimited viewing of older TV shows and movies for subscribers, expected to make announcements this week.

Netflix: Online streaming service lets subscribers play older TV shows and movies on media players and game consoles, expected to be a part of Apple’s announcement today.

Google: Google TV software seeks to merge TV and Web programming on TVs using various hardware, set to debut in time for this holiday season.

Hulu: A paid subscription service will offer new episodes of many TV shows on Internet-connected TVs and other devices like PS3s and XBOX360s.

Touché. [via]

Touché. [via]

Target To Sell Facebook Credit Gift Cards

Virtual currency continues to rise while the real stuff is still getting more worthless by the day.

How soon do people start FOREX for Virtual Currency?

Minas Tirith Made from Matchsticks: What did you do with your summer vacation? [via]

Minas Tirith Made from Matchsticks: What did you do with your summer vacation? [via]

Wait, what does your startup do?

Eeerily reminiscent of the old SwearMaster 3000.

Gmail Priority Inbox: The last five years were all about The Social Web™; the story of the next five is The Filtered Web™.

Golfer's swing snags rock, sparks California fire

From ESPN:

The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday. On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough ablaze and eventually attracted 150 firefighters to the scene.

(Thanks to Blackburn for the link.)

Check out this amazing panoramic shot from TDB’s Hawaiian correspondent Chris…made all the more amazing by the fact it was shot using only an iPhone 4 and the PanoApp. (Chris assures me all he used Photoshop for was the frame and the URL.) Pictures like this from something you can carry in your pocket that can (occasionally) make a phone call. As soon as technology gets on that whole teleportation thing (or at very least, jetpacks), we’ll be set. iPhone 5: consider the gauntlet thrown down.

Check out this amazing panoramic shot from TDB’s Hawaiian correspondent Chris…made all the more amazing by the fact it was shot using only an iPhone 4 and the PanoApp. (Chris assures me all he used Photoshop for was the frame and the URL.)

Pictures like this from something you can carry in your pocket that can (occasionally) make a phone call. As soon as technology gets on that whole teleportation thing (or at very least, jetpacks), we’ll be set.

iPhone 5: consider the gauntlet thrown down.

Today’s edition of The Daily Bunch is brought to you in SaboVision. (Thanks to Freer for the link.)

Today’s edition of The Daily Bunch is brought to you in SaboVision.

(Thanks to Freer for the link.)

Since production cannot be created by government stimulus, neither can demand. To the extent that there are savings, demand can be brought forward by stimulus – but only at the cost of future demand, plus interest. If stimulus could produce demand, then no nation would be poor. Taken to its logical end, Reich’s argument suggests that African poverty would be wiped out if African governments simply printed money more freely. In reality, Africans are not poor because they lack currency to spend; they are poor because their corrupt and inept governments inhibit production by soliciting bribes, denying property rights, abrogating contracts, preventing the accumulation of capital, and nationalizing profits.
Peter Schiff
Eiffel Tower by Sandra Malters [via]

Eiffel Tower by Sandra Malters [via]