Matt Drance's entirely astute opinion of why movie piracy is up. The studios don't realize that to eliminate piracy they should make it easier to buy it legally. I would certainly pay to get access to a la carte movies and TV shows if it weren't so hard.

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An interesting piece about the career of David Simon, creator of The Corner, Homicide, and The Wire

"Look, TV executives. I get that you’re not prepared for online distribution. I get that. I mean, the Internet just got sprung on all of us a month ago — it’s not like it’s been around for forty years, in people’s homes for almost two decades, and capable of streaming high-quality video to mass audiences since, I don’t know, 2006. And I realize you have nothing to worry about, since there are no reports of hundreds of thousands of people dropping their cable subscriptions like rabid hamsters or anything."<br />
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Fantastic article about the shortcomings of internet on TV, specifically Hulu's "Plus" offering.

awesome article on image compression and our ability to see blue.