Science and Technology

Forget Dot-Com: Dot-XXX Websites Approved, Will Aim For Adult Content

estherase via Flickr​The Marina Del Rey-based organization that governs website domains, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), approved a ".xxx" domain suffix for adult-content websites. A Florida-based company called ICM Registry will facilitate registration of sites ... More >>

This Week In: The Future of Web is Streaming Video, Jason Calacanis and Mark Jeffrey Explain Why

Buh-bye​Jason Calacanis, Internet entrepreneur and "L.A.'s brash tech superstar," thinks the future of the web is streaming video and he's willing to put his money where his mouth is. Literally, since his mouth is on "This Week In Startups," one of the shows featured on streaming video network ... More >>

Lily The Whale Is Back In Dana Point

KTLA News​We watched television news coverage of the wayward gray whale inside Dana Point Harbor this week and wondered if marine biologists were right: All they could do is stand by, they said, even as onlookers asked if there was more that could be done. It turned out there was: The whale, ... More >>

Al Jazeera presents: A Theme Song for the Icelandic Volcano (WTF)

File under: the world is a deeply weird place. Here's a little theme song for the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull ("pronounced ay-uh-fyat-luh-yoe-kuutl-ul") sung by Eliza Geirsdottir Newman and her magical ukelele (or toy guitar--we can't really tell). Adding to the weirdness, it comes to us co ... More >>

Top 10 'Green Cars' Announced: Which One Is Your Roadside Status Symbol?

Number one.​Remember when Escalades, Navigators and Hummers were all the rage? Dubs (20-inch-plus wheels), loud exhaust and bass music, right? Doesn't that seem like a million years ago? Today to be a true player in L.A., more modest hybrids are the status symbols to have. Kelly Blue Book on ... More >>

Streamy Awards Red Carpet Video Interviews: Web TV Stars Give You Advice on How to Start Your Own Web Series

Prior to the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards on Sunday, April 11, L.A. Weekly camped out on the red carpet with a video camera and asked nominees, presenters and winners what best piece of advice they'd give to someone just starting out who wants to create their own web series. We figured you wouldn't w ... More >>

I Blog Dead People

The tyranny of the uninformed in the Internet age

Food Bloggers Honored by Saveur: Winners of the Magazine's 1st Annual Food Blog Awards Announced

Saveur​Food blogging, as many of our readers and fellow bloggers know, is an activity where you can express reactions to the latest restaurant you attended, or simply share your penchant for baking chocolate chip banana bread pudding as a peace offering to your ticked-off husband. In recogniti ... More >>

U.S. Seeks $16 Million-Plus Fine From Toyota

​The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is seeking the maximum fine of more than $16 million against Toyota Motor Corporation for remaining silent about acceleration problems four months even though it allegedly knew about its "sticky pedal" issues, the U.S. Department of T ... More >>

Countdown to Web TV's 2010 Streamy Awards: Comedian Paul Scheer Confirmed as Host, Beatboxer Rahzel Says VOTE

When world renowned beatboxer Rahzel tells you to do something, you fucking do it. On March 29 after the 10 finalists were announced for this year's coveted 2010 Streamy Awards Audience Choice honor, the "Godfather of Noyze" and web TV enthusiast spit some beats and released this video encouraging ... More >>

Adam Carolla's Pilot Fish

Al Gore Backs Mayor's 'Carbon Surcharge' Rate Hikes For DWP Customers

​Former Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday backed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's "carbon surcharge" proposal for Department of Water and Power customers despite reports indicating that the plan could hike power fees as much as 28.4 percent. "Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles has introduc ... More >>

Update on Story LA Weekly Broke: Google Amps Up Its Music Blog Deletions

Fred Noland​Almost a year ago, LA Weekly freelancer Jeff Weiss broke the story of Google's unilateral removal of music blogs who were accused of posting unauthorized MP3s on the company's Blogger software. Wrote Weiss on February 5, 2009: Google, the bloggers believe, has quietly changed t ... More >>

When Ordered, Twitter Monitors Tweet-Bangers For Authorities -- Report

​Representatives of Twitter and Facebook said they cooperate with authorities investigating gangs that use the social-networking tools to communicate about crime, according to a report. "Representatives from Twitter and Facebook say they regularly cooperate with police and supply information ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Javier Cabral of Teenage Glutster

Javier Cabral turned 21 two weeks ago, which means not only that now he can legally drink alcohol when he eats out with his blogger friends, but that the name of his blog, Teenage Glutster, seems a bit outdated. Some might agree that after a mention from Dana Goodyear in a New Yorker profile of Jona ... More >>

Chinese Government Sued In L.A. Over Censorship Software

Lenovo​The Chinese government was sued in Los Angeles court this week over its imposition of content-filtering software that is allegedly based on code stolen from CYBERsitter, LLC. The $2.2 billion suit claims that the People's Republic of China distributed "Green Dam Youth Escort" censorship ... More >>

Census Kick Starts In Los Angeles; New York Gets Bigger Census Rig

U.S. CensusA trailer in full bloom.​As the 2010 U.S. Census head count kicked off in Los Angeles this week, we were disappointed to learn that New York hosted a bigger traveling rig than what L.A. is getting. First New York claims it sees twice as many international tourists as the City of Ang ... More >>

A Movable Feast: LudoBites 3.0 at Royal/T Café

Meet Your Food Blogger: Pat Saperstein of EatingLA

Pat Saperstein is senior editor at Variety and the grand dame food blogging in Los Angeles. Her blog, EatingLA, is playful and pithy, offering up restaurant reviews, Top Chef updates and local food news. Squid Ink caught up with Saperstein to ask about Peter Bart's foodie side, her take on comped me ... More >>

Mayor V. Has A Lot Of 'Capital,' Gives L.A. Yet Another New Title

​You know him as the man who coined the phrases "farmers market capital of the world," "America's undisputed creative capital," and, of course, "the eco-fashion capital of the world," has created a new tag-line for Los Angeles. That's right, from this week forward, Los Angeles is the "capital ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Matt Armendariz of Matt Bites

Alex PerelmanARMENDARIZ BITES!​Food blogger Matt Armendariz, of Matt Bites, is living the dream. He specializes in food photography and is married to Adam Pearson, a stunning, red-headed food stylist. He has appeared on the Martha Stewart Show, and spent January at Club Med in the Bahamas with ... More >>

Bon Appétit Food Blogger Bake-Off: Enter Your Food Pix Bring A Plate Of Christmas Cookies To Barbara Fairchild and François Payard

Last year, Bon Appétit ran a slideshow of the best pictures of holiday desserts from national food bloggers. It was, to put it mildly, a rather popular slideshow. This year, they're going one better and holding a contest: the Bon Appétit Blog Envy Bake-Off. Anyone with a food blog can enter (altho ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Rickmond Wong of Rameniac

Alhambra native Rickmond Wong considers himself a ramen shaman. According to Jonathan Gold, when Wong was in high school he was already emailing our food critic to brag about his superiority in the field of the often understated noodle. Wong's food blog, Rameniac, pays homage to the history and trad ... More >>

Meet your Food Blogger: Bill Esparza of Street Gourmet LA

Bill Esparza is a professional saxophonist, and the mouth and mind behind food blog Street Gourmet LA. He also teaches a class called Affordable Ethnic Dining at the Burbank Adult School, an eating-intensive class that takes students out into the streets of Los Angeles to diversify their palates and ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Amanda Simpson of FoodPornDaily

Hot red lobster with Prosecco butter sauce running down its claws, seductively posed on a bed of creamy rosemary, garlic and chèvre yellow corn grits. Pork tenderloin outfitted with bacon, stuffed with figs and blue cheese, splayed out on a white porcelain plate, surrounded by crimson fig slices. I ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Cathy Danh of Gastronomy

Cathy Danh's Los Angeles-based food blog, Gastronomy, straddles science and language, table and stove. Danh likes to cook, eat and write. Her fiancé (and frequent dining partner) Vernon Chaplin, aka The Astronomer, is a physicist who also enjoys eating, particularly with Danh. To manage the impact ... More >>

Meet Your Food Blogger: Eddie Lin of Deep End Dining

"Eddie Lin eats raw chicken," sounds like the kind of insult you might find scrawled on a bathroom stall or passed around on a piece of scratch paper in a high school classroom. In Lin's case, it validates a Renaissance eater. Eddie Lin, the blogger behind Deep End Dining, has risked his stomach ... More >>

Bites of Sugar: A New Food Blog from Tavern's Pastry Chef

Bites of SugarSunlight on macarons​The Maginot line between the kitchen and the Internet keeps getting fainter, between the updates of tweeting chefs and the posts from guerrilla food bloggers madly blogging from the bathrooms on a restaurant's opening night (that according to Anisette chef-ow ... More >>

Golden Anniversary: L.A.'s Nuclear Meltdown

This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Los Angeles area's most closely guarded secrets -- the partial meltdown of an experimental nuclear reactor operated by Atomics International Inc. near Chatsworth. For 20 years information of the event had been confined to a terse, euphemistically wo ... More >>

Apocalypse Now and Then

“Pompeii and the Roman Villa” at LACMA; Steve Canaday at Parker Jones

Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Rejected: Trent Reznor is Pissed, Posts E-Mail from Apple on NIN Forum

On May 2 Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor broke the news via Twitter that Apple had rejected the updated NIN iPhone app because it contained "objectionable content," specifically lyrics on the album The Downward Spiral. Needless to say, Reznor is pissed. After posting Apple's rejection e-mail on the NI ... More >>

Thurston and Kim Rather Rip Through MOCA

Plus, Lovers & Strangers at Hear Gallery, Mustache Mondays at La Cita and Dance at Arena

It Pays to Be Green: On Beth Barrett's Measure B Story

Measure B fine print: DWP's scooter and wind power debacles

By Daniel HeimpelThe battle over Measure B, City Hall's solar plan that sped through Los Angeles City Council at the speed of light, is heating up like a photo-voltaic panel under summer sun. During a special hearing at City Hall early this week, Council member Tony Cardenas pressed DWP bureaucrats ... More >>

Google's New Killer App? Why Are Music Bloggers' Posts Disappearing, and Who Is Deleting Them?

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L.A.'s Solar-Energy Ballot-Measure Melodrama

David S. Freeman: City Hall "is capable of screwing up a two-car funeral"

Let's Forget About the Tongue-Tied Lightning: Battling Britney Spears and Gilbert Arenas for 2008 Weblog Awards

Sunday afternoon, my editor e-mailed me and asked how I was doing in the 2008 Weblog Awards, where I'm nominated for Best Celebrity Blogger, alongside blogging heavyweights Gilbert Arenas and Britney Spears. Yes, you read that correctly. "I think I'm going to lose to Britney Spears," I wrote back. ... More >>

Talking with the Institute for Figuring’s Margaret and Christine Wertheim

Masters of the Woolen Reef

Best L.A. Record Store: Amoeba Records

Texas greener than California?

In the effort to go green, Texas appears to be kicking the crap out of California. After a summer that saw sewage spill after sewage spill mar beaches across L.A. County, it's refreshing to see that at least one city in America has its shit together. Yesterday, San Antonio, Texas announced plans t ... More >>

Space Race Two: SoCal Loses Fight for Private Space Terminal to New Mexico

State turns instead to manufacturing ships, suits, even diapers

Fighting About How to Fight Global Warming

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It's not the technology stupid!: Romantic & pragmatic thoughts on what consumers want from recorded music

CDs are kind of fucked, but so are radical new models of music consumption. The key to selling music is still not about convenience, price, or practicality. It is about obsession and possession and most of all object fetish.

Why to Love This Song: The Dodos "Fools"

How does Pitchfork.tv stack up against YouTube? ALSO, let's just talk about how rad this song is, okay?

RFID: Tag, We're It!

As the technology spreads, who will protect our freedom from information

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

Will the Next President Try to Out-green California?

A solar White House

The Eel World

For the past decade, E has created parallel universes. Turns out there's a reason why

Can David Nahai Keep the Lights On?

L.A.’s man to watch in 2008. Talking water and power and history with the city’s new DWP head