Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.
DIY Videomakers Should Stroll Through Digimation’s Model Bank
More accessories for the Army of David's video tool kit — three dimensional modeling; no 3d glasses required!
Liberal Fascism: The Font
As its namesake 2007 documentary vividly illustrated, Helvetica is utterly inescapable, both on your PC's monitor screen and in the 3-D world as well, from American Airlines to the IRS's 1040 form. But how did an era that promised unlimited freedom to designers create a font that became so ubiquitous?
Camelot and Its Discontents: Mad Man’s Third Season Comes to DVD
Say what you will about the weekly AMC TV series, at the very least, it's a reminder that the period that history remembers today as “Camelot” was nowhere near as tranquil and idyllic as that word suggests.
Adobe’s CS4: Updating The Army Of Davids’ Toolkit
Adobe's long-running multimedia tools receive their latest facelift. But what's under the hood?
Blade Runner: The Final Final Cut for Xmas
Ridley Scott's 1982 Blade Runner has been reissued in a "Five-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition," including its "Final Final Cut" just in time for present season. PJM Political's Ed Driscoll takes a look at the checkered career of the seminal noir sci-fi classic.
AMC’s ‘Mad Men’ And The Sweet Sell Of Success
Ed Driscoll reviews the deconstruction of Ike's America in the new cable mini-series Mad Men. "In the hands of a writer like Larry Gelbart or the late Terry Southern, this could be wonderfully satiric stuff... But the writers and producers of Mad Men don't seem interested..."
 | J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Left Loses Big in Citizenship Verification Supreme Court Case. “In the last year, I’ve litigated five NVRA cases and worked on the preemption issues for years, and there is more to cheer in today’s opinion than bemoan. Those complaining about the opinion don’t understand what the Left’s goals were in this case: total federal preemption, and on that score, Justice Scalia foiled them. On that score, the decision today was a huge war won, even if the small Arizona battle was lost.” ... |
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