Fight Club: Where Is My Mind?

Nerd Movie Night: Fight Night

Thursday, August 11, 2011, 8:00 PM
New Work City
412 Broadway

World War III Time: Let's Go To War

Image via CrunchBaseTechRadar: Google declares war on Microsoft and Apple over Android

Google has openly declared war on Microsoft and Apple, with the internet giant claiming that a "hostile, organized campaign against Android" is being waged through "bogus patents"....... the first shots of a war between the highest profile technology companies on the globe. ...... Whether that's with the purchase of patents, huge investment in products (ie Microsoft's Windows Phone 7) or by marketing – it is clear that nobody can pretend that it is good-natured rivalry that is spurring on a now vicious battle.

Eric Schmidt On The Case
Android Has To Be Kept Free
Microsoft And Oracle Misbehaving On Android



The short term victory would be to see that Android stays free, that manufacturers are not having to pay Microsoft - Darth Vader - a dime. The long term victory would be to see the ridiculousness of software patents in general go away.

Donna Lewis: I Love You Always Forever

Now playing on the cafe sound system.

Nerd Movie Night: Fight Night

Update: This event is now on August 11.

Nerd Movie Night - Fight Night

Thursday, August 4, 2011, 8:00 PM
New Work City
412 Broadway

I missed out on a cool event at the same venue recently.

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BMW Guggenheim Lab: Movies

BMW Guggenheim Lab





August 3, Wednesday, 6 PM: Blank City
August 7, Sunday, 6 PM: Last Address and Wild Combination
August 10, Wednesday, 6 PM: Chain
August 13, Saturday, 12 PM: The NY Leftover Bailout: My Brooklyn
August 24, Wednesday, 6 PM: Garbage Dreams
August 27, Saturday, 7 PM: A Conversation and Screening with Clayton Patterson
August 28, Sunday, 6 PM: Flow





September 7, Wednesday, 6 PM: The Garden
September 11, Sunday, 6 PM: NY Export: Opus Jazz
September 14, Wednesday, 6pm: The Price of Sugar, 6 PM: Charlie Ahearn Hip-Hop Short Films
September 17, Saturday, 6 PM: The City Dark
September 18, Sunday, 6 PM: Zero Percent
September 21, Wednesday, 1 PM: Short Takes on the Solidarity Economy, 6 PM: The Take
September 28, Wednesday, 6 PM: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth



October 5, Wednesday, 6 PM: End of Suburbia
October 9, Sunday, 6 PM: Streetfilms at the Lab
October 12, Wednesday, 6 PM: Bogotá Change

BMW Guggenheim Lab

Image via CrunchBaseOnce in a while on PlanCast an event shows up that looks like everyone in town is going to. This BMW Guggenheim Lab event is the same way. And it seems to go on for six weeks. There are lots of movies, first thing I noticed.

And it is a topic of great interest to me, the idea of reimagining this amazing city.

Wait, it's not six weeks, more like 10 weeks. This goes on and on and on.

New York City

I think visually. At high school this dude who was one year senior to me said he remembered names but forgot faces. I thought that was the weirdest thing to say. At college my first good friend Beth asked me, "But if you know so many languages, what is the language you think in?" I was confused. But I don't think in languages, I thought. Movies speak to me at that level. Movies are great mind food for minds that think primarily visually.

Thelma & Louise

One badass movie. A lot of action. Walked over to Little India afterwards.

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Tum Aa Gaye Ho

The Future Of War

Fast Company: The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War

Adobe Was Always Going To Do HTML5

Image via WikipediaI am not at all surprised that Adobe is getting into HTML5. It never was Flash versus HTML5 for Adobe, even when Steve Jobs suggested it was so.

Verdict: The iPhone Is Not Open, Flash Is Not Cutting Edge
HTML 5 And Online Video

Also Mark Zuckerberg's response to Google Plus can not be Facebook News, it has to be HTML5. HTML5 is what will finally eat the iPhone's lunch.

Apple Going After Google's Cloud? Facebook Going After Apple With HTML5
Fred Wilson On Android And HTML5
HTML 5 And The Small Screen
Facebook's Next Major Breakthrough

The idea that you have to create one app for the iPhone and another for Android and a third one for Blackberry, and another for a Windows phone, not to say for the iPad, that is just weird.