Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founding member of The Doors, passed away yesterday afternoon from bile duct cancer. He was 74. The quasi-Baroque introduction Mr. Manzarek brought to the Doors’ 1967 single “Light My Fire“ — a song primarily written by Mr. Krieger — helped make it a million-seller. Along with classical music, Mr. Manzarek also [...]
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Not sure what’s more impressive: that Yahoo has rescued and improved the beleaguered photo sharing site under Marissa Mayer or that it now comes with one TB of free storage space. Every other photo sharing site — Facebook/Instagram and Google, particularly — are now playing catch-up. For the first time in a long time, it [...]
Mat Honan perfectly captures the good and bad of Google after spending four-hours live-blogging its I/O keynote.
Spending $1.1 billion for Tumblr seems like a coup for Yahoo. Tumblr gets its exit strategy without worrying about how to actually make money and Yahoo gets the youth street cred it was sorely lacking. The big question that is yet unanswered is whether Yahoo will muck this up like most of its acquisitions or [...]
“Internally the project was code-named Project Acela, a reference to the high-speed train between Boston and Washington. A team led by Albert Cheng, Ms. Sweeney’s executive vice president for digital media, was given a deadline of May 14, the date of the ABC upfront. While Apple devices came first, other phones and tablets will be [...]
Yowzahs. Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light. The celestial spectacle, known as a “ring of fire” eclipse, was the second solar eclipse visible from northern Australia in [...]
High intensity interval training is essentially the principal for which P90X and Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred are based off of. Those workouts really do work — if you stick to the regiment. That was my biggest problem. Well, my inherent laziness was really my problem. But, anyway, I digress. Turns out, you don’t have [...]
Okay, that’s a bit of hyperbole, obviously, because as long as as the government is still engaging in domestic spying and the TSA makes getting through airport security a nightmare, we will constantly experience the ripples of 9/11 in America. But, I couldn’t help but feel some sense of closure as the spire was placed [...]
Betaworks describes itself as “a company that builds companies,” but really it’s a start-up incubator and the most interesting media technology company at the moment. Lately, it has scooped up a bevvy of smaller companies. We know they are working on a Google Reader replacement. It bought the much-maligned Digg last year and gave the [...]
Ray Harryhausen, a legendary visual effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator, passed away at the age of 92. Harryhausen’s fascination with animated models began when he first saw Willis O’Brien’s creations in KING KONG with his boyhood friend, the author Ray Bradbury in 1933, and he made his first foray into filmmaking in 1935 with [...]
