February 8, 2010
Rich Ross, Chairman
Walt Disney Studios
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
Dear Mr. Ross,
Congratulations on recently being promoted to Chairman of the Studio! I have a few …

You might have seen this already: “iPad Available in US on April 3.”

Apparently land prices in Florida are getting so low that citrus growers are buying land from developers instead of selling land to developers.
Check out the Orlando Sentinel on the topic: …

This has very little to do with anything, but I just read an interesting article in the Miami Herald (what, you don’t read the Herald every day?) Planet Hollywood, …

If you care about this sort of thing, you’ve probably already seen this. But on Wednesday, Disney Channel announced a 10-part Tron series for fall of 2011.
Disney XD (another …

I haven’t read this yet (it is almost 600 pages) but I just downloaded the newWomen’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance study released yesterday …

Foreign Policy has a fantastic set of photographs from war zones.
Check out: “The Shooting War.”

No.
No, no, no, no: “Hella number: scientists call for new word for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.”
Before this article I’d never heard of “Yotta-” before (it means Septillion) and now they want …

I’ve got a weird obsession with Portand’s Time and Temperature Building. When Liz and I were looking for apartments, it was my dream, hope, wish, desire, to have one …

Annnnnnnnnnd the worst idea I’ve heard this week is that Walt Disney Theatrical Productions, or Disney Theatrical Group, or Disney on Broadway, or whatever Tom Schumacher’s calling his cadre this …

Istithmar World Capital, the private equity and alternative investment arm of Istithmar World, part of Dubai World, a Dubai government-owned company (phew) has defaulted on their $300 million mortgage for …

How did I not think of this?
How did Foreign Policy magazine make this joke and not me?
In their post “This will not end well” they make a joke about the …

No good news coming from Albany tonight – they’re reporting at the Times-Union that the Portland Pirates AHL hockey team is moving to the New York capital next season: “GM: …

Spencer Ackerman’s is a blog I read daily. He writes mostly about the Iraq War, but also about comic books and punk rock. He was also a consultant …

Slow news day so I’ve been catching up on the mass of articles about Leno last night. The battle-lines are drawn, most are either for him or against him, …

So last night was the first night of the new Tonight Show, re-starring Jay Leno.
Whoo.
I didn’t watch it, as much as out of solidarity with Conan as out of loathing …

I have no idea what website this came from, or what a “PaleyFest” is, but this article popped up on my radar yesterday: “‘Lost’ Creators Want to Get the Finale …

Uh-oh. Retaliation begins: “Dubai: Israelis Will Be Denied UAE Entry.”
Of course, we’ve talked about Israelis and Dubai before (see Shahar Peer and Dubai).
But this is different.
The Emirates will now …

I’ve meant to write more about the Winter Olympics over in Vancouver, but I didn’t and now they’re over.
So the final medal count turned out pretty nicely:
            Gold Slvr Brnz …

So now the Islamic Solidarity Games have been called off because host-country Iran inscribed “Persian Gulf” on the tournament’s official logo and medals.
This, as we know from last week, is …