SPINAL TAP TO REUNITE

An important announcement today: Spinal Tap is going to reunite and appear at Wembley Stadium on June 7, as part of the worldwide Live Earth concerts.Director Rob Reiner has prepared a 15-minute film explaining what the band has been doing since its last...

GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FREE WIRELESS BROADBAND

A potentially world-changing announcement from Google today – the launch of Google TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users’ plumbing systems. A simple fiber-optic cable running through any toilet on a...

ZE FRANK & THE SHOW

Ze Frank has just finished a year of producing The Show, three-minute video monologues that appeared online five days a week. Slate, the Los Angeles Times, and others are writing paeans to a project that blossomed into something unique and special. The audience turned...

LIFE WITHOUT THE NETWORK

From Max Barry’s marvelous book Company, about corporate life in the weeks after the computer network goes dead:”Two weeks ago the network went down; soon after Senior Management assured the company it would have the problem fixed within a few days; now...

THE IT CROWD

The IT Crowd is my new favorite TV show. The first season’s six episodes can be downloaded pretty freely – here’s one collection of links to downloadable files, for example. Much of it is available on YouTube if you don’t mind low resolution...

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

Happy Valentine’s Day! Stuck for a gift? I’m sure a lot of you depend on Thinkgeek.com for your last minute holiday shopping, so you’ll be relieved to know that Thinkgeek is all prepared for Valentine’s Day. For example, you might not have...