media
Site to See
Fully Sleeved
DefaceValue.com
March 15th, 2012
The vinyl LP is one of our enduring miracles. If human civilization were to die out tomorrow and our trappings encased in amber for 10,000 years, the super-intelligent aliens or androids who inherit the planet from us will surely say something to the effect of, “Humans were primitive and unstable … but, man, did they ever put some great shit on vinyl.” Read more »
Found Material
Headed Off the Tracks
Economist.com
March 15th, 2012
A proposed high-speed train between Los Angeles and San Francisco seems to make a lot of sense, until you crunch the numbers. Read more »
Vegas Tech
Tap on Drinks
March 8th, 2012
It all started with a beer—one that I ordered and paid for at The Beat coffeehouse using an iPhone app. The waiter received my order through his iPad, and the beer was promptly delivered to me upstairs at a desk in the downtown tech library Read more »
Found Material
Coaches Answer Social Call
BeamingBohemian.com
March 8th, 2012
College athletic coaches have different ways of handling their players’ social-media activity. Read more »
Site to See
Space in Vader
Akjak.com/vader-sessions
March 8th, 2012
Disclaimer: Video production company Akjak first put the Vader Sessions on the Web six years ago. But to my mind, if George Lucas continues to reissue the Star Wars films in theaters, I should be allowed to post this ingenious parody over and over. Read more »
Vegas Tech
Fitness Helpers for the Truly Wired
March 1st, 2012
An old management adage says “what gets measured gets done,” and with the evolution of electronic sensors and personal computers, many people are discovering that measuring themselves is a great way to keep motivated. The Koko FitClub in Henderson uses this idea in its computerized SMARTrainers. Read more »
Site to See
A Scanner, Brightly
Cartoonize.net
March 1st, 2012
It began with Richard Linklater’s Waking Life. That 2001 animated film spelled out several radical theories that are now widely accepted as immutable fact. No. 1: Life is truly a dream, and only by embracing that dream state can we achieve enlightenment. No. 2: Ethan Hawke’s face is a lot less scary in animation. Read more »
Media
This Thing of Ours
Outsiders take aim at the Mob Museum
February 23rd, 2012
The opening of the Mob Museum on Feb. 14 was a big day for Las Vegas, but it was also another opportunity for the world to say what they think of us. Here’s a sampling of national and international media takes on the House That Oscar Built: Read more »
Site to See
Meet The Twins
Xorph.com/fists
February 23rd, 2012
“We live in a cynical world,” Tom Cruise said in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire. I couldn’t agree more, and as a gesture of understanding I’d like to introduce him to a pair of my dearest friends, Johnny Dundee and Seamus Heaney. Dundee is my left fist and Heaney my right, and they’re just dying to express their appreciation for Maguire through coordinated discourse. Now, I did not name my own fists; that would be presumptuous of me. Read more »
