Friday, September 12, 2003

The Economist: Battle for the big screen. Innovations in materials and manufacturing processes are allowing the LCD to invade the plasma panel's territory--starting with 40-inch displays later this year, and then moving briskly to bigger sizes. The two rival technologies are poised for a clash. [Tomalak's Realm] 7:55:23 PM

News.Com: Microsoft goes to Hollywood. Microsoft submitted its technology to SMPTE on Monday, but waited until Friday to officially announce both that move and a blizzard of new Windows Media partnerships. The announcments were made at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam. [Tomalak's Realm] 7:55:05 PM

Both sides issue statement in Apple/Beatles lawsuit. An Apple Corps spokesperson confirmed on Friday that the organization started by The Beatles has file a lawsuit against Apple Computer Inc. The lawsuit cites breach of contract by Apple Computer over the use of "Apple." "Specifically, (the) complaint is made over the use by Apple Computer of the word "Apple" and apple logos in conjunction with its new application for downloading pre-recorded music from the Internet," Apple Corps said in a statement on Friday. [MacCentral] 7:54:31 PM

The Beatles sue Apple over iPod, iTunes [The Macintosh News Network] 9:38:11 AM

Consumers strike back, sue RIAA. [MacCentral] 9:37:55 AM

Disney Reanimates Dali's Flick. Salvador Dalí, the outrageous Spanish artist, considered Walt Disney a compatriot in subversive art. They tried to make a film together but shelved the project. Now, the Disney studio is reviving the very un-Disneyesque work 57 years later. By Jason Silverman. [Wired News] 9:37:32 AM

The Multiple Heteronyms of One Poet. Fernando Pessoa was a mastermind born in the late 1800s who fooled entire nations and important personalities into a web of fantasy and art using conventional newspapers and magazines to create a world of imaginary people, circumstances and places. His intricate web was revealed to us 50 years after his death, when his sister donated a chest with over 27 thousand documents written by him. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that these were written by more than seventy heteronyms he created, who were capable of producing not only poems but critical works, philosophical tracts, novels, plays, horoscopes, letters and interviews. Heteronyms: a concept stronger than pseudonyms, they were literary alter egos with intricate imaginary lives of their own. [kuro5hin.org] 9:37:19 AM