The grim video footage is here. Like Al says, part of the appeal of SNL is that, in the Eastern Time Zone at least, it really is live and things can and do go wrong. Take Ashleee Simpson’s second song Saturday night. NBC’s SNL board has been burning up since …

Without succumbing to total self-parody as did Leslie Nielsen (who has had an exceptional second career as a buffoon, but I can’t imagine him playing a serious role again), William Shatner has somehow had it both ways, lingering the public imagination as the heroic, gravitas-laden Captain Kirk, winning his first …

The trend toward corporate broadcast media consolidation – led by poster children against the trend Clear Channel and Sinclair Broadcasting – has reduced localism in broadcasting and reduced variety over the airwaves. Ironically, satellite radio, which is literally the same all over the nation, is where the variety is, since …

Roc-A-Fella and Rocawear mogul Damon Dash is encroaching into iPod land with the Rocbox, Roc Digital’s new line of MP3 players that launches in November. The first two models are a chrome-colored 20GB model that’ll sell for $299 and a smaller white and aluminum flash-based player that’ll cost $159. If …

If you were around twenty years ago, I am sure you vividly remember the video where a roomful of UK stars sang “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” line-by-line individually, collectively on the choruses: first George Michael, then Boy George, Bono, Simon LeBon, Sting, Phil Collins, Bananarama, etc. It was the …

I just mentioned yesterday Lessig and company’s p2p Politics.org site which is gathering election-related video, primarily ads of one kind or another. Well the Internet Archive: Election 2004 site, with 462 movie files (as of the moment), is on another scale entirely. With debate footage, candidate ads, interest group ads, …

Curt Schilling’s performance in game 6 for the Red Sox was the real nail in the Yankee’s coffin. I had a gut feeling of soothsaying certainty after the Sox, behind Schilling’s stunning performance, won another nail-biter 4-2 that game 7 would be a blow out – just ask my wife. …

I love El Greco, and the Cleveland Museum of Art houses one of his greatest, “Christ on the Cross,” an epic, vastly empathetic thrust into the gaping maw of a damaged universe, where Bosch meets Van Gogh, Christ’s very human figure pitted against palpably hostile clouds of hatred and despair. …

The single most catastrophic collapse in major league sports playoff history (it’s happened twice in the NHL, but they they have more rounds of playoffs than teams) now sits squarely at the feet of the New York Yankees of song and lore, forever changing the physical molecules and numenous spirits …

mi2g Intelligence Unit, the U.K. digital risk assessment and security company, has some very sobering news regarding hacking trends: The phenomenon of Islamic hacking for political purposes did not exist in any significant measure prior to the 9/11 events in 2001, save India-Pakistan and Israel-Palestine localised cyber skirmishes. International Islamic …