Voices » Brian Lam http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:48:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Giz Banned for Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080115/giz-banned-for-life-and-loving-it-on-pranks-and-civil-disobedience-at-ces/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080115/giz-banned-for-life-and-loving-it-on-pranks-and-civil-disobedience-at-ces/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:05:57 +0000 Brian Lam http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080115/giz-banned-for-life-and-loving-it-on-pranks-and-civil-disobedience-at-ces/ By Brian Lam, Editor, Gizmodo

A Gizmodo writer has been banned from CES for a prank. But when I see some fellow press damning us for the joke, I feel sorry for them: When did journalists become the protectors of corporations? When did this industry, defined by pranksters like Woz, get so serious and in-the-pocket of big business? This is totally pathetic.

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]]> http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080115/giz-banned-for-life-and-loving-it-on-pranks-and-civil-disobedience-at-ces/feed/ 0 This Video Makes Bill Gates Look Cooler Than Steve Jobs http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080107/this-video-makes-bill-gates-look-cooler-than-steve-jobs/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080107/this-video-makes-bill-gates-look-cooler-than-steve-jobs/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:27:39 +0000 Brian Lam http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080107/this-video-makes-bill-gates-look-cooler-than-steve-jobs/ By Brian Lam, Editor, Gizmodo

OMG, I can hear the fanboys battling already. Here’s a video from last night’s CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates’s last for the foreseeable future. And I know it’s scripted, edited and contrived, but I’m sold: The man is a cool geek.

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