Tiny Watch Productions For President

Send to KindleTweet There is a god and he started tinywatchproductions. If you haven’t seen any of these videos, you are missing out on a real laugh. My cousin first sent me the iPhone video. Then I added them to my YouTube favorites. Now I’m a total junkie. From explaining “the Quantitative Easing” while slamming “the Goldman Sachs,” to [...]

Tobacco Companies May Have Found Advertising Loophole

Send to KindleTweet A new study published in the Tobacco Control journal suggests that the major tobacco companies are getting around the rules barring advertising to kids on television by tapping YouTube. Though the five major cigarette makers deny it, some suggest there are videos on YouTube with product placement-style promotions of certain brands, according [...]

Top Five Summer Playlist Songs

Send to KindleTweet Pandora is like the first cup of coffee in the morning-we’d survive without it, but not happily. Here are the top five songs on heavy rotation in the Pandora, iTunes and YouTube playlists. MGMT Kids For that upbeat mood-accept your reality and live in the present… Empire of the Sun Walking on [...]

M.I.A. & Freedom of Speech

Send to KindleTweet M.I.A., the British rapper of Sri Lankan descent, has released a new video that tests our first amendment rights and speaks to issues including discrimination and war. This comes at a time when we are about eight years into an Iraqi war and Arizona has just passed laws that essentially enable racial [...]

Four Fab Gender-Neutral CES Gadgets

Send to KindleTweet The Dirt: One of the biggest technology shows of the year recently culminated in Las Vegas, giving gadget whores a new stock of items to add to their wishlist. Among them, phones, cameras and storage devices, among other items. While many expected the Palm operating system announcement, not as many expected a [...]

From Street To Prison To Studio

Send to KindleTweet “The union of hip-hop to the mainstream is a hard one to imagine,” says the character Sydney Shaw in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar. The movie follows two characters that witnessed the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx as children and grow up to work in the industry, the male a [...]

Underwater Artificial Intelligence: Sea Bound Robots

Send to KindleTweet The Dirt: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a new version of the robot dubbed Odyssey IV that can hover like a helicopter, allowing it to take pictures and grab material samples. The small submarine was developed as part of the MIT Sea Grant College Program’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicles [...]