Sail it off the lot and you lose $50M
Do you remember the uber sailboat, the Maltese Falcon, Tom Perkins was building a few years back? A refresher: cost $150M, length 289 ft. (the…
Clinton Stark
Filmmaker and editor at Stark Insider, covering arts, AI & tech, and indie film. Inspired by Bergman, slow cinema and Chipotle. Often found behind the camera or in the edit bay. Peloton: ClintTheMint.
Brand management and damage control 2.0: Social media to the rescue?
Audi’s “unintentional acceleration” fiasco of the 1980s might have looked very different if Twitter and Facebook were around. Could the PR nightmare been avoided 140-characters…
Theater review: ‘Tommy’ at Coastal Repertory Theatre in Half Moon Bay
‘Tommy’, the infamous rock opera by Pete Townshend of The Who, is legendary stuff. Many a childhood was forever changed thanks to that record. It…
Review: Lenovo IdeaPad U350 13.3″ laptop
For a first generation CULV-based laptop, the Lenovo U350 delivers on most counts.
TechCrunch on NYT, new media business models, and lean journalism
Michael Arrington, founder of a network of technology blogs including TechCrunch, published an interesting piece yesterday on new media business models and a hypothetical example…
Theater review: SF Playhouse ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ captures emotion, oppression, spirit
My how times have changed. A lot of so-called therapy today (not that I would know!) is based on spa-like treatment administered under the guise…
First look: Lenovo IdeaPad U350 laptop
We just received a Lenovo IdeaPad U350 from Lenovo. This is a 13.3" laptop with almost netbook-like proportions (but not quite). Thin and light, it…
2003 St. Francis Zinfandel Old Vines, Sonoma (88 pts, $125 magnum)
St. Francis in Sonoma produces some of my favorite wines (Cabs and Chards). At 330,000 cases per year, they are a large operation, yet they’ve…
Apple’s non-netbook answer: 10″ tablet set for Fall launch according to the Financial Times
If I’ve learned one thing in my years it’s not to bet against Apple. Ever (well, except when Gil Amelio is running the company). But…
Review: Toshiba NB205 netbook
It ships with XP, but even Windows 7 ran smoothly, and scored an index of 2.2, which is on par with other Atom-based netbooks.