In what is a just plain spiffy documentary, we present a clip from “In Search of Excellence,” a documentary produced by John Nathan based on Tom Peter’s book that profiled six unique companies. The following segment was filmed in the summer of 1984 and highlighted Apple Computer and the original Macintosh team, complete with its […]
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Relax, there is no need to call up Fox Mulder, these E.T.s weren’t buried by a government conspiracy. They were buried 30 years ago by a video game company. The mid-80s saw a lot of changes in not only the personal and business computing market, but also the home video game markets. The two were […]
In preparation of its release on Blue-ray, the Criterion Collection has made Errol Morris’s documentary about Stephen Hawking available on the iTunes Store. The 1991 film tells the story of Hawking’s struggle with the degenerative disease that paralyzed him. From the description; “Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the […]
There’s exceptions to every rule and some of them get pretty interesting. Per the cool cats at Ars Technica, the Digital Millennium Copyright makes it illegal to “circumvent” digital rights management schemes. But when Congress passed the DMCA in 1998, it gave the Librarian of Congress the power to grant exemptions. The latest batch of […]