Culture and Society

Given all the chatter about art and museums, it is only fitting that we turn our noses in the direction of the Perfume Museum of Barcelona. In the words of founder Ramon Planas Buera: The Perfume Museum of Barcelona, installed in the Paseo de Gracia 39, it was inaugurated in …

Microsoft confirmed that it will offer audio and video of Major League Baseball games via its MSN service, and AOL will offer live audio streams and 20-minute video clips for each game. The Microsoft deal, worth as much as $40 million over two years, according to sources, is one of …

Sony and McDonald’s pair up for a new music download campaign: Hungry for a taste of the online music business, Sony Corp. is aiming to line up McDonald’s Corp. to market the Japanese conglomerate’s new download service, according to people familiar with the deal. The two companies have been hammering …

Internet dieting has become extremely popular in recent years, according to this article from AP. We have seen some of the results here: this post on the South Beach Diet has been gathering comments steadily for nine months, and CW Fisher has just started a series on what he calls …

If you think about it for a moment, the fact that 75% of Americans have access to the Internet from their homes after just ten years is remarkable: In a February telephone survey, an estimated 204.3 million people, or 74.9 percent of the population above the age of two and …

Interesting essay by Clive Thompson in NY Times Magazine arguing that the Internet generally makes people more honest: a Cornell professor recently claimed to have established the truth of a curious proposition: We fib less frequently when we’re online than when we’re talking in person. Jeffrey Hancock asked 30 of …

As users quickly become aware, the worst part of using the major file sharing services is the crap they clog up your computer with: pop up ads, spyware, even viruses. If you are using Kazaa, this program will help – Kazaa Cleaner: Kazaa Cleaner is a free and tiny Adware …

A video clip wherein celebrities great and small rather gleefully pronounce their favorite swear words. The FCC will pop something upon inspection of this one. My favorite is the entended hyphenation at the end. UPDATE Some background on the video: FilmFour is to screen a controversial ad that features the …

David Carradine, who isn’t Chinese and only looks vaguely Asian because he squints a lot, is back in the spotlight with his title role in the Kill Bill films and with today’s DVD release of the first season of Kung Fu. I loved Kung Fu when it ran on TV …

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland is airing a closed-circuit feed from the Induction Ceremony from the Waldorf Astoria in NYC tonight. My great pal Johanna Hoadley is webcasting the event live from the Rock Hall: 8:31 p.m. Ahmet Ertegun, founder and chairman of the …