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The introduction of compact discs in the 1980’s (along with the subsequent digital media explosion they heralded) spelled the end of the vinyl record’s golden era. CDs have since eclipsed vinyl as the dominant music medium; only to subsequently be replaced themselves by the almighty mp3. In today’s age of iPods and Internet […]
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This last week, I took my second annual trip to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It’s a big international gathering of many people in the video/computer games industry giving speeches, showing off products and meeting each other to try to score some money.
I don’t design games, but every year I go, I come […]
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The 52nd most popular website online today is called Digg.com, a website founded in 2004 that brings in 40,315,228 unique visitors web browsers from around the world every month. It is a website that essentially serves as an aggregator for the rest of the world wide web, pointing daily users towards worthy posts, videos, essays, […]
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(Note: We tried to write a celebrity gossip column for the first issue of The Consumer, but we became too consumed in our vices and instead became fodder for gossip.)
Let’s start with the fatties of Tinseltown: Jennifer Lopez, having squeezed every last baby out of her body, is no longer disgustingly overweight. Also, […]
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Lindsay Lohan, of Mean Girls and LA party scene fame, recently graced the pages of New York Magazine’s spring fashion issue in a recreation of Marilyn Monroe’s infamous last photo shoot. Bert Stern, 79, who conducted and photographed both the Last Sitting and Lohan’s shoot, captures Lohan, donning a short, blonde wig, copious amounts of […]
