sep 8
2004

iPod

TV

Letterman is having a contest in which you can submit an answer for Top Ten Signs You're In Love With Your iPod.

Since getting TiVo, I've been constantly thinking about cancelling my Netflix account. Now there's the surprising news that they will be working together, and I'll be able to download movie via Netflix to my TiVo. (PVRblog is abuzz with conversation.) See also: L.A. Times essay on the the ways the DVR is changing society.

FILM

Guardian profile of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, the guy who has spent 16 years living in an airport and is the inspiration for the new Spielberg flick, Terminal.

MEDIA

Anderson Cooper receiving dating advice from Puffy.

ProjectCensored: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004. "Censored" is probably not the right word, but it's a good list.

MUSIC

Miscellaneous new videos from Dizzee Rascal, Modest Mouse, Duran Duran.

Pitchfork sez a Nirvana boxset with three CDs of unreleased material is coming out later this year.

WORDS

Media Bistro has an excerpt from Lads: A Memoir of Manhood by David Itzkoff, formerly of Maxim now at Spin. WSJ review.

ONLINE

Another Craig "Craiglist" Newmark profile.

POLITICS

Dick Cheney profile in Rolling Stone.

politics.slashdot.com.




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