What the f***? | | | | Neil Finn in 1987. From Split Enz to Crowded House to his solo career, he's one of my favorite songwriters in the whole world.
(Rick Eglinton/Toronto Star/Getty Images) | | | | | rantnrave:// A controversial memo about gender diversity ignites a battle over ideological diversity. It's man vs. woman, nature vs. nurture and left vs. right as the culture wars spread to GOOGLE. This is not RANDOLPH and MORTIMER DUKE stuff. I don't know what's legal here. I suppose there is a FIRST AMENDMENT right to say whatever you want. Stupid or not. True or not. Doesn't mean you get to keep your job does it? Debates galore. Emotions are high. A must-read TechSET: "The Google Memo: Diverse Notes on a Diversity War"... Sometimes I dream. Not often. Last week, I dreamt that I was on FANTASY ISLAND. MR. ROARKE and TATTOO greeted me. I think I was there to be a rock star. On and off stage. On the way to my fantasy another guest was arriving. It was DONALD J. TRUMP. His fantasy was to be POTUS. So it was all just a dream? Just a TV episode? How great is that! Then the GOOGLE HOME alarm went off. "Ok, Google. Stop." It was 6am and there is no Fantasy Island and DJT is actually president. How did I know? I asked "ok, Google. Who is President of the United States?" Google confirmed it. So, now I'm awake and worried about the end of the world because of his TWITTER battle with that North Korean guy with the bad fraternity haircut from the SETH ROGEN movie. Just wondering if I punch 4 8 15 16 23 42 into the computer will it save us? Hoping this works... TV money has made the ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE the wealthiest soccer league in the world. It's helped the EPL expand its global footprint and made everybody rich. But can money buy happiness? We take a look in SportsSET: "Can a Soccer League Be Too Rich for Its Own Good?"... It's possibly not the right thing to say, but let's be honest. It's all BRAN STARK's fault. He had to go climbing... A re-run of my take on THE DEFIANT ONES... From her music to her outspoken politics to her continuing struggles with mental illness, SINÉAD O'CONNOR has given the world countless opportunities to misunderstand her, and the world has complied. Can the world judge less and listen more? MusicSET: "Sinéad O'Connor's Universal Truths"... Someone explain jicama to me. I get jicama if you dipped it in gravy. But it's essentially tasteless. I don't want your jicama... One of my favorite shows in HBO's HARD KNOCKS. Love the athletes in training camp fighting for their jobs. The dreams. The hopes. Being called in by the coach. The cuts. The LIEV SCHREIBER narration. This season focuses on the TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS. The greatest thing in episode 1? The players discussing GAME OF THRONES. The entire coda of the episode featured awesome vignettes. Here's a snippet. I've asked HBO to post all of them but here's the full episode for now... Back tomorrow with rant on media industry OTT moves overall... Happy Birthday to BETSY MORGAN, DAVID MATHISON, CORY LLEWELLYN, CHRIS PETROVIC, and AURORA HERNANDEZ. And Belated to JEFF BERMAN. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by the people who were on board. | | |
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| A wave of brutal violence against visiting college students is forcing the country to examine its racism problem. | | |
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| A Backchannel investigation reveals the difficult issues police and communities face when they adopt the secretive firm’s data-scooping software. | | |
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| People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - perhaps since the VHS/Betamax battle of the early 1980s, and perhaps longer. Content and access to content was a strategic lever for technology. I’m not sure how much this is true anymore. Music and books don’t | | |
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| Suicides and cries for help have made mental health an issue the music world can’t ignore. | | |
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| Beautycounter has women on both sides of the aisle advocating for -- and selling -- safe beauty products. | | |
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| Praia do Norte's enormous surf was once greatly feared by the townspeople, but now it’s becoming their greatest resource. | | |
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| "Investment in content is going to increase," says John Stankey in his first interview since being named to oversee HBO, Warner Bros. and CNN as he reveals AT&T's post-merger synergy strategy, Peter Chernin's potential role and the top priority for making a mark in showbiz: "We're going to have to earn our way in." | | |
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| Rolling Stone examines how Charles Manson turned the words of the Beatles' White Album into his own manifesto to kill. | | |
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| Alex Nguyen filed the only formal net neutrality complaint, and he’s still waiting for an answer. | | |
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| When Michael Deng, a college freshman, joined an Asian-American fraternity, he was looking for a sense of belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead. | | |
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| Dan Davies takes centre stage in the saleroom as he learns the fine art of auctioneering at Christie’s | | |
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| The museum's former director shares his views of its present turmoil in the wake of Thomas Campbell, and his new job at Acquavella. | | |
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| Sicily is showing the world what can be accomplished on a shoestring budget. | | |
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| The president has launched an online TV network. He’s calling it "real news." | | |
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| Cooling the air was once seen as sinful. Maybe the idea wasn’t entirely wrong. | | |
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| Tracing her footsteps back into history. | | |
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| "Orphan Black" was no TV Themyscira, having been brought to life like most things in show business: with two guys at the helm and a smattering of women populating a more traditional sea of men. | | |
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| The threat landscape has changed so dramatically, so fast that it has outpaced previously sound security practices. | | |
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| "I would go to four or five brothels a week, sometimes seeing multiple girls at each brothel. I stopped working out and seeing my friends." | | |
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| Botswana’s heavy metal culture gets hyped for all the wrong reasons, but beneath the surface is a DIY subculture uncorrupted by the outside world. | | |
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| What does An Inconvenient Sequel, Fruitvale Station, The Zookeeper's Wife, Leonardo DiCaprio'sdoc Before the Flood, Lion, The Hunting Ground and Where to Invade Next all have in common? It's Picture Motion, a New York-based company that develops social impact and grassroots marketing campaigns for films. The company was founded in 2012 by Christie Marchese and joined one year later by Wendy Cohen. | | |
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| With major spaceflight milestones behind it, China is working to build an international reputation for space science. | | |
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