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AT&T lectures the FCC on getting out of corporate America’s way following T-Mobile’s layoff announcement.

SlashFilm:

Disney is a prolific company with its name on a great many successes, and it likes to hide its missteps and failures. The process of doing so sometimes helps those mistakes become things of legend. Song of the South, with its politically incorrect and racist portrayals of certain characters, is likely the most famous example. Another example might be The Sweatbox, a very rarely-seen documentary about the failed making of an animated film called Kingdom of the Sun, which eventually morphed into The Emperor’s New Groove.The Sweatbox filmmakers John-Paul Davidson and Trudie Styler were given unprecedented access to Disney’s process and the resulting film painted the executives in such a negative light, they more or less made sure the film would never been seen in public.

A harsh look at the process of making movies with some cool behind the scenes footage.

Om Malik:

Unlike the past, when Coca Cola, Levi’s and McDonald’s were icons of globalization, today the brands are very different. They aren’t entirely American, but instead very global.

I remember when seeing a European brand was odd, but not so much anymore. It really is becoming a small world.

Stock that baby up with Heineken and we’re on the road.

New photos of the Titanic wreck put the site into an entirely different perspective.

Learn tips for how to wire your house like a pro (if Wi-Fi just won’t do).

Peter was featured on this week’s “The Bro Show” podcast.

Nokia has applied for a patent for vibrating tattoos.

Brilliant.

[Via Jim Coudal]

One of the colleagues of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” creator Mike Daisey disputes his assertion that people don’t expect truth in theater – especially Daisey’s.

Screens VNC for iOS and Mac. It just works.

The charming story of a young couple traveling the nation’s Big West, where humiliation is the punchline.

Foxconn said on Monday it had no plans to take legal action although the programme had hurt its reputation.“Our corporate image has been totally ruined. The point is whatever media that cited the programme should not have reported it without confirming (with us),” said Simon Hsing, Foxconn’s spokesman.

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Bad Astronomy:

On Google+, Michael Interbartolo — who worked for ten years on the Space Shuttle Program in Mission Control in Houston — just posted about this amazing video from cameras mounted on the Shuttle solid rockets as they rode into space.On the upper left is elapsed time, and on the upper right is the air speed as calculated using on board instruments. Watch as the speed increases… and then the increase increases!

Om Malik:

When did we stop talking about ideas, technology and instead started focusing on you know… names and investing.

It’s been my experience that those that can name drop don’t.

Former Britannica.com editor Charlie Madigan:

This was inevitable. As a senior editor at Britannica.com, where I went to work after decades as a newspaper editor, I had high hopes for the idea of giving away knowledge.Talking about the public’s right, and need, to know with some of those folks was like talking to frogs about poetry.

Does this signal the beginning of the end of these kinds of books?

A new Kickstarter project hopes to build ‘digital Bolex cameras’ that resemble 16mm movie cameras but record digital video in high-quality RAW format.

Copyright troll Righthaven, which tried to sue people who used content from newspapers on their blogs or Web sites, has been told by a judge to forfeit all its copyrights.

A Goldman Sachs executive is leaving, but not before he very publicly, very viciously gives the investment bank a piece of his mind.

The US, EU and Japan have filed a trade complaint against China for its handling of rare earth minerals, which it has almost monopoly control of.

Ben Brooks brings up some good points about this “via” and “hat tip” debate.

Om Malik:

It is my belief that in modern times, no success goes unpunished. Infographics, too, were “punished” for their success.

Agreed.

A stunt to give SXSW showgoers 4G hotspot access using homeless volunteers has backfired, thanks to good ol’ fashioned white liberal guilt.