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(09/06/09 3:05am)
In a new pre-game tactic in college football, both teams in their entirety now walk out to the center of the field to shake hands with their opponent. It's an interesting way for the game of football to bring a new level of sportsmanship to the game.
(08/13/09 5:01am)
Pam Richter
(08/08/09 1:12am)
Everybody loves Nazis. Well, not exactly the Nazis themselves, nor the ideas that they extol, but instead, politicians and the media simply love to have Nazis to fall back on. Hitler's followers are akin to an acquaintance who no one's particularly fond of, but happens to own a pool, so when the heat rises, when the environment grows increasingly hostile, everyone's sifting through their contact lists trying to evoke the Nazi's name. They even have a diving board, for Pete's sake!
(07/23/09 7:15pm)
Pam Richter
(07/23/09 3:52am)
For a while there I really thought there was a betterment in the standards of the movie industry. Obviously there were always exceptions, but the last couple years I've been an advocate for the path Hollywood was taking, producing some pretty good movies on high budgets with big name actors. I mentioned it in the bit about Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are. Awesome concept. Then the pretty cool direction the sub-genre of comic epics.
(07/20/09 7:11am)
To commemorate the 100th post on the blog, as well as pay respects to Walter Cronkite's passing, here's the very first podcast courtesy of the Opinions Blog. Enjoy!
(07/14/09 10:51pm)
If you've ever seen some of the old Batman cartoons or that utterly ridiculous rendition with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze, you can appreciate the leaps and bounds taken by Marvel and DC Comics over the last few years in the film world.
(07/13/09 7:19am)
Watching the tralier for the new movie from the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow I couldn't help but notice the parallels between, well, all of these movies. The concept of humans trying to live through the end of time, and fighting against fate and all that. And top it off with some great big explosions, a little bit of a love story, some suspense, and it's all there.
(07/08/09 6:35pm)
Pam Richter
(07/03/09 9:26am)
I've always been a fan of Google's. The company has done an amazing job of predicting the online market and the progression of modern technology, well enough to see its stock remain one of the largest in recent years. It's contested Apple and Intel to that same effect, paving the way for a brighter internet future.
Now it has Google Books to add to its list of ever-expanding uses. You can read entire books on its Web site. Not the three-page preview you get on Amazon, but the whole thing. In most cases, at least. Hugo's Les Mis is "limited," but it shows 738 pages anyway, so it's basically just the abridged version.
Now it is coming under fire from the DOJ, but that's to be expected. Anything that's being transferred to digital and online resource is going through the copyright and antitrust debates.
What becomes difficult about it is the same problem that's plagued media for the last decade or so: how do you make money from that? It's obvious that this is a format that needs and wants to be embraced by society, but it is impossible to make a profit off of. People can take a PDF of the book and upload it to their Web site. Or they'll settle for the 3/4 they can read online. More than anything, people who would actually take the time to read what's available on Google Books wouldn't buy the book, they'd just read it on the site.
Just like with news print, with movies, music, and--yes--even with television, no answer has presented itself as to how to make a profit. The larger demand for large amounts of convenient media has destroyed its business model, and Google Books is just the latest example.
Of course companies are filing suits with the DOJ. They lose money. But it wouldn't do the media that much good to see something like Google Books go under at the decision of a court. It just means that the economics need to be rethought.
(06/26/09 6:42pm)
Pam Richter
(06/26/09 6:02pm)
The death of a celebrity is always a tough time. It brings people out in full force, ready to offer condolences to each other and show support for the family, or whoever's left. It brings people together, as they gather on the street outside the hospital, or at that person's Hollywood star.
(06/22/09 1:19am)
For the first issue of the summer, the opinions section will have a nice little balance of that warm, fuzzy optimism that you've grown accustomed to reading in other publications, and the typical grizzled, commentary that tends to dominate the editorial pages. If you're on campus (all three of you) then pick up your copy on Wednesday, but if not, take a look on the Internet. I heard it's the hip, new thing.
(06/19/09 6:27pm)
Pam Richter
(06/17/09 11:32pm)
Democracies are such a problem. Sure, they provide a solid basis for capitalist enterprise, grant people greater control of the government and give a nation greater credibility on the world stage. But oh, when failure and discontent festers in the minds of the voters, what are the poor strongmen in the palaces of power to do? They can't just let themselves be voted out by popular will, nor can they win an election by the slightest of margins. They must keep hold of their scepters and make it seem as though they have a mandate, to keep those snippity upstarts from mustering the gall to question them.
(06/16/09 8:06am)
Hulu has dominated the internet television and movie industry ever since it began, offering a legitimate home for shows that couldn't be shut down by copyright laws. It was great. It meant late nights would be complete, with an episode of Arrested Development to go along with the Cheerios when you need a break from writing a paper.
(06/14/09 5:57am)
Pam Richter
(06/12/09 1:51am)
It's not too often that an opinions section will have an editorial or contributor that writes only to commend something--I'm pretty sure Morgan has made that point before--but I think that it is well deserved in this case.
(05/12/09 5:09am)
Dr. Carlo Strenger is a pretty darn smart guy. A professor at the psychology department of Tel Aviv University, he frequently contributes to The Guardian (a paper that, if you have not noticed, I worship), mostly on the topic of religion and how it pertains to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. I know, it's a topic that it seems as though everyone in the world has already tossed their two cents into.
(05/06/09 7:23pm)
Never allow yourself to be even remotely close to a swastika, even if it's made by children and looks to be incorporated in a backwards Chinese flag.