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...clearly there's reason for caution. Other Internet entrepreneurs have piped up about the issue. James Hong, who co-founded Hotornot.com, said that even back in 2005 he'd stopped taking the kind of offers that ask for cell-phone numbers or a subscription. "The offers that monetize the best are the ones that scam/trick users," he wrote on his blog. "Sure we had [legitimate] Netflix ads show up ... but I'm pretty sure most of the money ended up getting our users hooked into auto-recurring SMS subscriptions for horoscopes and stuff...
...stigma to raise money, but very little is going toward services, research into improved educational methodologies and things that have a practical impact on our lives," Ne'eman charges. He notes that other disability groups have moved away from using fear and pity in their media campaigns. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...have somewhat dulled Casablancas’ previously superb songwriting abilities. The album’s opener, “Out of the Blue,” rides a driving guitar riff resembling something from a punk rock Johnny Cash as Casablancas delivers one of the album’s best lyrics: “I know I’m going to hell in a leather jacket / at least I’ll be in another world while you’re pissing on my casket.” While Casablancas’ freewheeling tone adds a sense...
Casablancas’ lyrics work best when he embraces his appointed role as a lovable indie rock miscreant, guilty of overindulgence and carelessness. The excellent “Left & Right in the Dark” incorporates hand claps and a shimmering synth melody into his vocals about not knowing his way in the world: “I’m on my way, oh somewhere / Feels like I’m going left and right in the dark.” He brings a familiar tone of an unapologetic malcontent to “Ludlow Street...
...Halloween, Robert Zemeckis’ beautifully animated “A Christmas Carol” proves itself the perfect ghost story for any season. With nuanced performances, a strong visual aesthetic, and an expertly pitched pace, Zemeckis’ third experiment in motion capture animation proves to be his best yet. Though the film offers little by way of narrative invention and may frighten much of its intended audience, its truly spectacular 3-D effects and loyalty to Dickens’ novella will likely preserve it as a new Christmas classic...