Read: Lessons in Manliness from Bass Reeves

April 26, 2011

Bass Reeves is one of my favorite historical characters from the Old West so it’s essential that I pass this on. According to the Art of Manliness: Who was the greatest Deputy U.S. Marshal of the Old West? Wyatt Earp? Wild Bill Hickok? How about Bass Reeves? Bass who? Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was ...Read More

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

January 14, 2011

• Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Liberty Hall (803 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS) Wednesday, January 19, 6:30-9:30pm From the organizers (Films For Action): Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is a feature length experimental documentary that assembles experts in the fields of public health, anthropology, neurobiology, economics, energy, technology, social science, and other relevant subjects that relate to social ...Read More

Film Screening of Dirty Business & Climate Action Discussion

October 8, 2010

• Film Screening of Dirty Business & Climate Action Discussion Ecumenical Christian Ministries (1204 Oread. St. in Lawrence, KS) Sunday, October 10, 7-9:30pm From the organizers (Films For Action): Films For Action, the Sustainability Action Network, KU Eco-Justice & GPACE present a free encore screening of Dirty Business on Sunday October 10th. This event is ...Read More

Watch: Kevin Smith’s True Hollywood Stories

July 26, 2010

You probably know Kevin Smith as the mastermind behind such movies as Clerks, Mallrats and Zak and Miri Make A Porno; but what you may not realize is that Smith also happens to be one of the greatest living storytellers around. While some in Hollywood insist on keeping their behind-the-scenes shenanigans under wraps, Smith is never afraid to lay it all out there for you. Here we’ve collected some of our favorite Kevin Smith True Hollywood Stories.

1. The story of how he almost wrote and directed a Superman movie in which the man of steel would not fly nor wear a cape.

2. Kevin Smith hangs out with Prince for a week to shoot a documentary…then things get weird.

Prince and Kevin Smith part 2
Prince and Kevin Smith part 3
Prince and Kevin Smith part 4

3. How Smith ended up protesting his own movie Dogma

Watch the actual news report from the Dogma story here

Watch Smith tell the story of how he pissed off Tim Burton here

Watch Smith describe how people reacted to his stories here

Much of this footage is from the 2002 DVD An Evening with Kevin Smith

Infographic: Google’s Data Removal Service

July 23, 2010

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According to Good Magazine (published July 20, 2010):

Google compiles and holds vast amounts of the world’s data. It’s supposed to be totally private but sometimes governments need that information for investigations, and they request it from Google (or its subsidiaries like YouTube, Blogger, or Orkut). Other times, governments find a piece of data offensive or erroneous, and request that Google remove it from its database entirely. The search giant makes all these requests public. This is a look at which countries ask Google for the most information on its users, which ask Google to remove the most information, and how often Google gives information.

The infographic was designed by MGMT design.

posted by: Brent Carter