By Mark | February 13, 2014
Comcast, the nation’s largest provider of cable and internet service, as well as the world’s largest media company, made clear their intention today to purchase Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable company in the United States. Assuming the $44 billion deal is allowed to move forward by the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged American Airlines, American Customer Satisfaction Index, anti-trust, Brian Roberts, cable, Comcast, competition, consumer rights, duopoly, Federal Communications Commission, France, free market, invisible hand, Justice Department, lobbying, media consolidation, mergers, monopoly, Obama, scumbag meme, telecommunications, the free market will fix everything, Time Warner, Tom Wheeler, turds, US Airways, Verizon |
By Mark | January 28, 2014
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, tiny sliver of it that worked its way through the gristle surrounding my heart 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of the zine publishers that I know, and asking them how they found […]
Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1992, 1994, 2001, 50 state projects, adventure, Alaska, Alaska Fishermen’s Union, Allen Ginsberg, Amsterdam, Andy Kaufman, anonymity, Arizona, autobiographical, before the internet, bicycles, cannery, chain restaurants, Chloe Eudaly, Communism, Cracker Barrel, Craphound, creative control, cruise ships, cycling, David Letterman, dishdogs, dishes, Dishwasher, Dishwasher Pete, Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, dishwashing, drinking on the job, eschewing responsibility, expatriate, Factsheet Five, Farm Pulp, fish processing, free stuff, gags, Grand Canyon, Greg Hischak, Guinea Pig Zero, Haight -Ashbury, Hawaii, Huck Finn, humor, impersonation, In the City of Bikes, individual responsibility, integrity, introverts, Jack-in-the-Box, juvenile delinquent, Kentucky, Kinko's, Kraft, labor history, labor movement, Late Night with David Letterman, mac and cheese, mainstream media, Malcolm X, Mark Twain, media consolidation, Myrtle Beach, National Parks, people who we know from television, Pete Jordan, Phoenix, photocopying, pranks, radical politics, Reading Frenzy, responsibility, restaurants, restlessness, revolution, Richard Nixon, San Francisco, Scam, scams, self-publishing, shitty jobs, Silicon Valley, South Carolina, Sufjan Steven, television, Temp Slave, The Untold History of Zines, theft, This American Life, Uncle Tom, underground press, unions, urban planning, zines |
Mozilla, the non-profit organization responsible for the popular Firefox web browser, has apparently stepped into the fray to lead the protest against our government’s recently uncovered campaign to aggressively monitor, record and mine the private communications of law-abiding American citizens. Saying, “We don’t want an Internet where everything we do is secretly tracked or logged […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alex Fowler, big data, data mining, domestic spying, Edward Snowden, FISA, Mozilla, National Security Agency, NSA, Patriot Act, petitions, PIPA, PRISM, privacy, PROTECT IP Act, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, StopWatching.Us, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism, thoughtcrime, War on Terror |
Google announced today that Kansas City, Kansas beat out Ann Arbor and almost 1,100 other cities to become the home of their first high-speed broadband fiber-optic network. It would have been a huge boon to Michigan if Ann Arbor had been chosen, as this fiber build-out will no doubt attract numerous IT-related companies looking to […]