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...Maddow is holding on to her radio show for now, saying that if Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity can do it, why can't she? At the moment she's deciding how much of her audio self can be transferred to video. The radio show has the tightest format around. It begins with "news from Iraq and life during wartime," has several five-minute sermons on topics of the day, allows only two segments for interviews with newsmakers and journalists. As a break from the gargle of grim death, she answers nonpolitical questions from listeners ("Ask Dr. Maddow...
...developer Benj Clews, even five words are too many. Users submit four-word film reviews to his FWFR.com site--such as "Tense. Intense. In tents" for The Blair Witch Project and "This is Spaniel Tap" for Best in Show. "It's all about the sheer, honest bluntness the format forces," says Clews. But why four words? "Three words never seemed like quite enough," he says. "Five felt like overkill...
...selling books, The Purpose Driven Life, and the founding pastor of one of the country's largest churches, the 23,000-member Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. And on Aug. 16, he will play the role of national inquisitor in a "civil forum" featuring (consecutively, not in debate format) the two presumptive nominees for President, who will fly to Orange County, Calif., to be civilly grilled for an hour apiece. (See pictures of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America...
...months ago, a friend e-mailed me a manuscript of his first book. It's torture plowing through 350 pages on a computer, and I was too cheap to print it out. So on a lark, I forwarded the document to Amazon, which converts such things into Kindle-book format for free; minutes later, I had a lovely version on the device. And since I like to get something for nothing, I downloaded from other sites a dozen great, free novels, ranging from James Joyce's Ulysses to Cory Doctorow's recent sci-fi novel, Little Brother. The giveaways motivated...
...upscale films, notably Robert Zemeckis' Polar Express and Beowulf, have been available in 3D. Yet for a viewer to put on those glasses, still as cumbersome a visual appliance as they were in the '50s, is to surrender to cheesiness. (I tell moviemakers who want to work in the format: get back to me when you invent 3D without specs...