May 6, 2008

Yet more interestingness: 6 May 2008

Below are simple links to other interesting stuff I've come across on the web in the last day or two; they may or may not concern literature or photography, or indeed the arts at all. You can click here to learn more about how I compile this list and what software I use, if you're interested.

Nelson Mandela is on the US terrorist watchlist
Unbelievable.

Robin Williams does two surprise sets at Chicago's Lakeshore Theatre
A friend of CCLaP's, Lakeshore Theatre owner Chris Ritter (at Belmont and Broadway), had a bit of a surprise last weekend, when Robin Williams asked to do two unannounced sets there while in town last week for "Ellen in Chicago." Nice!

Marvel uses "Iron Man" success to sign three horrible development deals
Reps at Marvel Comics this weekend used the surprisingly huge success of "Iron Man" to push through development deals for three more B-level characters -- Thor, Captain America and Ant-Man. Suckers!

Seriously, NBC? You dropped iTunes just to sign with Zune?
NBC announces this week that they've struck a new deal with Microsoft's Zune online store, which most experts agree won't even be open in another couple of years; worse yet, their episodes are still selling for $2 apiece, the issue that made them break with Apple in the first place.

FBI spends a year hunting Seattle "terrorists;" turns out they were just tourists
After a Seattle ferry captain identified a pair of "suspicious" dark-skinned passengers in 2007, the FBI spends an entire year hunting down their identities; now it turns out they were just EU tourists, taking photos of the ferry's car capacity because they had never seen a car-ferry before.

Filed by Jason Pettus at 8:06 AM, May 6, 2008. Filed under: Arts news |

 

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