Covered this week; Dan Haren’s post-career Twitter flurry… Russell Mills’ Cargo in the Blood Hesitation Mark artwork… The slowly sinking Miami, Florida… the Year in Pictures from the White House… Side-by-side comparisons of Music Cloud services… T-Mobile CEO John Legere’s video rant… a great Rolling Stones Tumblr… Deadwood movie project green lit by HBO… the story of Disney’s Mickey Mouse copyright… Top 10 2016 MLB off-season acquisitions…
January 4, 2016
Dan Haren took to his Twitter account this afternoon to share some gems with us. Just read this in all its glory.
January 5, 2016
To document the inspiration and process behind the artwork of Cargo In The Blood and Russell Mills’ previous collaboration with Nine Inch Nails on The Downward Spiral, filmmaker Charles Leek created this short film containing exclusive footage and access to the artist.
January 6, 2016
Hal Wanless, the chairman of the University of Miami’s geological-sciences department, has spent nearly half a century studying how South Florida came into being. From this, he’s concluded that much of the region may have less than half a century more to go… as told to Elizabeth Kolbert for her piece ‘The Siege of Miami‘ in The New Yorker.
January 7, 2016
The Year in Pictures from the White House. Behind the lens of Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza. A window into the day-to-day of a head-of-state… hit this link when you have 20 minutes to burn… 111 hi-res photos with captions. Stunning.
Apple, Amazon and Google all have services that let you access your music in the cloud. A side-by-side comparison.
January 8, 2016
A great Tumblr for the Rolling Stones fans in the house.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere defends his streaming plan against “bullshit” complaints from the “jerks” at Google.
January 9, 2016
I can’t tell you how happy this makes me… looking forward to finally getting a more satisfying resolution to the time I invested in this epic series… HBO green lights David Milch for a Deadwood movie.
I’m not a huge Disney fan by any stretch… but this tale of how Mickey continues to evade the public domain is a fantastic read.
January 10, 2016
Steamer — a player-projection formula used to predict future performance based on trends and historical comparisons — projects the WAR for every player in the 2016 season. These are the 10 acquisitions who offer their teams the biggest upgrade from last year to this year.
