They Own Us

from Gizmodo Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque. By Lucas Ropek The owner of a data brokerage business recently put out a...

Graydon Reflects

from The New York Times via DNYUZ Graydon Carter and the Golden Age of New York City Media Lorne. Graydon. Keith. Three abiding kings of New York City’s cultural life are the subjects of new books. Lorne is Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live,” who is...

Val Kilmer Gone

from Variety Val Kilmer, Star of ‘Batman Forever,’ ‘Tombstone,’ Dies at 65 By Pat Saperstein Val Kilmer, who played Bruce Wayne in “Batman Forever,” channeled Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone‘s “The Doors” and starred as a tubercular Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” died...