Category Archives: Net Culture

Kottke.org

ClieA kind of weird thing happened to me at work when a client asked me to make some type smaller. So I went to Hi-Type and found Silkscreen.

Which lead me to the home page of the author, JasonKottke. It’s one of the nicest personal Web sites I’ve seen; low on clutter and pretension, high on design smarts. Okay,maybe that’s not such a weird story, but it was a clever way of getting those links in there, no?

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Motient Corporation and Rare Medium Group to Merge

“RESTON, Va., and NEW YORK, May 14 /PRNewswire/ — Motient Corporation (Nasdaq: MTNT) and Rare Medium Group (Nasdaq: RRRR) today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement through which Motient will acquire 100 percent of Rare Medium Group using a combination of newly issued Motient stock, shares of XM Satellite Radio stock (Nasdaq: XMSR) owned by Motient and certain other considerations.”

Read the full text of the press release here. I have absolutely no comment right now.

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Majestic

MajesticMajestic is a new-breed video game from Electronic Arts, not just net-based or multimedia-based but many-media based. It uses your Web browser, Flash, RealPlayer, AOL Instant Messenger (driven by AI), your fax machine and your telephone to “infiltrate your life”. Game sessions are short and can be tailored to gamer-defined parameters (default settings, for instance, might result in telephone calls to you from the game in the middle of the night), and can occur over the course of days or weeks. I’m not much of a gamer, but this has the ring of the future.

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The Hire

The HireIt’s an advertising trick of practically evil subtletly, but the five-film series “The Hire” is still worth a look. Ostensibly a collection of short films directed by some major talent — John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee and Guy Ritchie among them — and all starring the highly cool Clive Owens from last year’s “Croupier,” these films are, at heart, a disturbingly clever campaign for BMW cars. The film releases are staggered, with Frankenheimer’s “The Ambush” available for viewing right now, and Ang Lee’s “Chosen” due next week. The one I’m really waiting for is Wong Kar-Wai’s “The Follow.”

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