I saw a musical play last weekend by Ray Bradbury called Vision 2116. I loved it. (*disclaimer: movies like I'm Not There, Dancer in the Dark, and yes even Moulin Rouge can make me tear up long after everyone else has left the building.)

Ray Bradbury was there and still delivering wise cracks at almost 90, and I had the good fortune of chatting with Roslyn Shapiro whose husband formed a writer's group with Bradbury in the 1940's. She says Bradbury was terrified of driving and, according to wikipedia, never did get his license.

Richard Bach was also in the group and Roslyn's daughter talks about fights breaking out -- her father wrote a parody of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and all hell broke loose. Watch Roslyn Shapiro and her daughter tell the story below:

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Jacob Solomon, a student from the UCLA multimedia class I co-teach with CyberFrequencies web guru Joshua Rodriguez (you'll be hearing more about this class as we pimp their stuff), did an interesting review of audio mics for those of us who are trying to squeeze better audio out of our iPhones. He comes out with Brand Flex as the winner. But my money's on Apple Headset. Take a listen and decide for yourself.  Read More...

I taped Queena eating a Bacon Donut at Nickel Diner for this Saturday's Off-Ramp. As I proudly posted it to YouTube, I noticed that the Bacon Donut (BD) genre has a rich and caloric history on YouTube.

So compiled here for you is a Best of (ours being the best, theirs being the "of").  Read More...

If you google the iPad, feminine napkin jokes are neck and neck with the actual iPad news. Heck, even Hitler weighed in. Does this mean we're collectively over-Appled? In Jobs' presentation on Wednesday, he re-positioned Apple as a "mobile devices company". Very unsexy way to position yourself when your company's been seen as more about innovation than business. Besides, something else could come along tomorrow and blow mobile devices out of the water (no idea what...I'm just sayin).

But my question is: What's the competition for the iPad? The iPod? As KPCC'S Molly Peterson says in our EXTRAS/THE VIDEO version of the CyberFrequencies radio show/podcast, Apple's entered the land of "ridiculously redundant devices". Watch CF outtakes video below:

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CyberFrequencies was in full force at the LA Art Show this year! (Which means two of us went.) I think there may have had some pretty good art. Sadly, I didn't seem much of it because I was waiting in line for about an hour for TWO Hama Sushi rolls. I didn't even bother trying to get a drink because the lines were twice as long. Now I think that if they wanted folks to buy art, they should have liquored them up and sprang for a couple people walking around with those cute little drink trays. But then...LA Art Show didn't ask me for my advice...so I'll stick to what I know.

Featured on KPCC's Off-Ramp this week were graffiti artist friends & collaborators El Mac & Retna. Here's what they had to say:  Read More...

Decide for yourself which beatboxer is better!



OR

Who's a better beatboxer?
	Daichi
	Julia Dales
pollcode.com free polls

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On Flavorpill LA Tanja Laden and Shana Nys Dambrot's Browsers:

1. Annenberg interviews with photographers

2. Tiger Woods' Slow Jam Remix

3. Dark Bob's New Year Special  Read More...

In case you're a little fuzzy on your history, the original Rosetta Stone was about four-feet-tall and two-feet-high. The ancient Egyptians etched three languages - hieroglyphic and Demotic and classical Greek - onto the one-foot-thick slab. Napoleon's soldiers found the stone and it unlocked ancient Egyptian civilization -- before then, nobody could read hieroglyphic!

The high-tech Rosetta Disk fits in the palm of your hand, has about 1,500 languages etched-on in microscopic writing and is designed to last ten thousand years.

Rosetta project director Laura Welcher says it could be the tool that unlocks ancient-English to the far-future. But more importantly, Welcher says with the world's languages (and culture) disappearing, the Rosetta disk will be a reminder of how diverse humanity once was. Check out the full-interview on CyberFrequencies Radio  Read More...

Robert Torres of last week's show on the gaming high school Quest to Learn says:
Some of my favorites sites are:
Design by Design
Quest To Learn
New York Times Education page
Daily Kos
Pandora
BBC
Ferry Halim
Shambhala
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Netflix just announced that it’s well on its way to a, well, blockbuster year of profits. The online movie outfit banked 430 million in revenue, lowered its costs-per-subscriber (who now number 11 million), and boosted all of the important acronyms and ratios that stock analysts care about.

But the rah-rah press releases don’t mention an important detail: I am responsible for Netflix’s exorbitant profits.

Okay, so I’m probably one of several million people. Here’s how it happened...   Read More...