Beyond the Rhetoric

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like reverse auctions are picking up in popularity. Unlike eBay and other traditional auction sites, a reverse auction rewards the item to the person who doesn’t put up the highest bid, but rather the person who has the lowest unique bid. In this way, it is very possible [...]

I think it was a brilliant idea to avoid casting big names in Frank Miller’s 300, but did you know that a rather famous person made a brief cameo appearance? Very nice! I like! And here is what 300 would have looked like if it had a much, much smaller budget.

I’ve been a huge fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise for as long as I can remember. As I’m sure you’d expect from a pre-pubescent boy, I was also very much into Saturday morning cartoons, and no other cartoon — with the possible exception of X-Men — captivated me quite the same ways [...]

In the world of movies, things don’t need to make logical sense. We have time travelers, people that can shoot fireballs, and folks hell-bent on paranoia and the number 23. The Mummy series starring Brendan Fraser wasn’t exactly a critical success, but it did just fine for itself at the box office thanks to some [...]

Earlier this month, John Chow put up on his post talking about people who use their names as their domains. I, for example, fall under this categorization, because I use MichaelKwan.com for my freelance writing business, and btr.michaelkwan.com for my blog. This is one of the requirements, it seems, to being proclaimed a dot com [...]