Clinton Stark

Clinton shoots videos for Stark Insider. San Francisco Bay Area arts, Ingmar Bergman and French New Wave, and chasing the perfect home espresso shot 25 seconds at a time (and failing). Peloton: ClintTheMint. Camera: Video Gear

Motorola Droid: 3 of my favorite apps

So far so good. I think I'm sticking with the Droid. After hearing about some of the battery life horror stories with Eris and Hero, the Moto seems like a workhorse. Yesterday, in San Francisco, I used Internet, GPS, email, social networking widgets for a few hours, and again later...

Theater review: ‘FAT PIG’ a captivating take on self-image in America

Near the end of Fat Pig, a no-holds barred look at how we think about ourselves and others, plus-size Helen says, "I would change for you." But the real question is whether Tom, her peer-pressure laden lover, will do the same. Written by American playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute, the...

Scamville or why mainstream media is dying

This whole Scamville thing is trending big time. The story, originated by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, exposes the scam (and extremely obnoxious, annoying) that is Facebook "games." Little more than thinly veiled attempts to make people spend money, propegate crap on the masses and aggrevate the hell out of legitimate...

Motorola Droid: More early thoughts

Early thoughts on Motorola Droid on Verizon continued. Solid phone. Not quite iPhone killer (again nothing will until someone can match iTunes): I've been using it since Friday when I picked it up from Verizon store. The transfer from AT&T to Verizon was seamless; Verizon staff were excellent. I entered my Gmail...

New Verizon ad attacks iPhone weak spot: AT&T

The Apple iPhone is an exceptional smartphone. It started it all. And dominates for good reason: it's so easy and fun to use. But, everyone knows the AT&T network is its Achilles heel. And Verizon is attacking it aggressively. The latest 30-second spot once again uses the infamously sparse (but legally...

Sunday espresso: Me and my monkey, relationships, suck it up

Good morning from sunny, fallish (at least some trees and leaves are turning orange and red), and congested San Jose. I've seen my fair share of braking tail lights over the past few weeks. It seems I'm almost living in the car. Loni meantime sees it mostly as a...

Looking back: U2, Popmart Toronto 1997

Isn't it fun knowing something your friend doesn't? And even better when you can make use of that knowledge to win a small wager. In this case, I knew without question that at some point during the spectacle that was U2's 1997 Popmart tour, the band would "delemon" (?) from a...
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Google Voice, finally!

Today has been quite the whirlwind day. And to top it off I finally received a Google Voice invite. More on that in a sec, but first I would say I'm busy, but I've ranted about that before, and we all agreed we're all busy, all the time. Computers and tech...

Motorola Droid available today at Verizon

I'm not sure anyone really cares, except for hardcore Google Android fans, and the tech obsessed... like me. Sill, in case you haven't already heard (repeatedly) the new Motorola Android smartphone is now available at Verizon stores. I'm still on the fence. I need to replace my aging, 4-year...

Androids, Androids, Androids everywhere! (plus Android phone hotness scorecard)

My head has been hurting all week trying to keep up with this madness called Android. The short: Google is taking over the world, again. This time, the mobile one... cell phones... oh, make that smartphones! I don't need to go into all the details here, since you can find...