The Great Annie Leibovitz

from the New York Observer What Makes Annie Shoot? The great Leibovitz realized she was never a journalist but made news with magazine covers. An artist who was once fascinated with her subjects lately seems largely fascinated with herself   BY CHOIRE SICHA  “I look...

White People Steal Music

from Stuff White People Like Blog #93 Music Piracy March 30, 2008 by clander  White people have always been renowned for having ridiculously large music collections. So when file sharing gave white people a chance to acquire all the music they ever wanted, it felt as...

Tar Is Art Spelled Loopwise

from MediaBistro Tar: New Mag From Blackbook Founder   Evanly Schindler, the visionary behind Blackbook, is jumping back into the magazine world with Tar, a glossy publication slated to launch in October produced by Tar Art Media, the company he runs with Maurizio...

Federal Court Rules on E-mail Delinquency

snipped from TidBits U.S. Federal Court Declares Email Bankruptcy Illegal by Glenn Fleishman In a move that could affect as many as 20 million Americans, the U.S. District Court for New York has ruled that a Poughkeepsie man will need to retain all the email in  his...

If Daedalus were alive today…

from New Scientist How to transform your arm into a wing 00:01 01 April 2008 NewScientist.com news service Jeff Hecht Daedalus used feathers and wax – and we all know what happened to his son when he flew too close to the sun. Instead, you could try surgery,...

More Juno

from Reuters “Juno” star sings in sequel to movie soundtrack Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:12am EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two months after the soundtrack to the pregnant-teen comedy “Juno” hit No. 1 on the U.S. album charts, a second volume is...