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

It’s official: Twitter is worth about $7M per character

Who knew? Maybe if Twitter had doubled its notorious, infamous, and entertaining 140-character Tweet limit, it would now be worth $2B. Instead, alas, it must settle for a mere $1B valuation. The deal involving another round of funding had been rumored for days now (don't you read TechCrunch?) and it...

Re-discovering Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’, the album

Is it okay, at my age, to admit I still immensely enjoy the punk-pop music of Green Day? I was not the target teen even some 15 years ago when Dookie was our soundtrack of choice on snowy Canadian winters in the Glebe. I remember trudging down 2nd avenue, a brutal...

Theater preview: More opening nights this weekend

The ′09/10 Bay Area theater season is off to a roaring start, kind of like the San Jose Sharks and Ottawa Sens last year—and we know how that turned out. So, will the early success continue? To recap, here's the 2 minute lowdown on what's playing now and coming this...

Moblin is here

At least it's here in beta form. Moblin is a slimmed down operating system designed for Netbooks. It has a nice glossy, Web 2.0 look to it. Dig deeper though and you'll discover a few things. First, it's actually based on Linux—the OS most likely to live in a garage...

Plastic bags on the way out in San Jose

It won't take effect until 2011, but San Jose could become the largest city in the US to ban plastic (and paper) shopping bags. Mayor Chuck Reed said, "I'll step out and take the lead in the South Bay to eliminate the scourge of plastic bags." San Jose is playing...

Microsoft grabs .5% search market share in August thanks to Bing

According to comScore, Microsoft is making inroads against Google in the ever lucrative search market. In August, Microsoft's share grew half a percentage point to 9.3% of the total market. Even better, Nielson reported that Bing search volume grew over 20% in August meaning, perhaps, that more users are turning...

Theater review: ‘American Idiot’ an energetic journey

The lead actor John Gallagher, Jr., although looking more Jay Kay than Billie Joe, puts 110% into his role as the despondent teen looking to escape suburbia.

Microsoft starts free trials of Office Web Apps, belated response to Google Docs

Google has ruled the roost when it comes to free web-based productivity applications. But it was just a matter of time before Microsoft too would join the game. And it looks like that day is near. Free trials of Office Web Apps have begun as part of a technical preview...

Stark Insider Weekend: Gone in 60 seconds…

Here's the weekend that was, gone in 60 seconds. https://vimeo.com/6675980

Flashback: Clint, San Jose Shark for a day 2002

What a thrill. What a memory. 2002. I played an alumni game (second time) with former San Jose Sharks players. Yesterday, I happened to be surfing the Internet archive (Wayback Machine) to see what my former life, aka "Clintworld" (clintworld.com established 1997) looked like, before the StarkSilverCreek.com (i.e. pre-Loni) days. In...