Vivmag cover shoot: behind the scenes
The magazine shares access to the behind the scenes video of Griffin’s cover shoot.
Father: son ‘killed by the government’
Robert Swartz says during the service in Highland Park that his son was hounded by the government.
He was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles.
Swartz’s girlfriend, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, said:
Aaron wanted so bad to change the world. He believed you had to see the world for how it really was to change it. With this [upcoming] trial and everything he was facing the last two years, I think [Aaron] fell into the pain. I love him, I miss him and I’ve learned so much from him.
Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the World Wide Web, and Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, director of the Safra Center for Ethics where Swartz was once a fellow, also spoke at the funeral.
Tu Ecuador cover
Cyrus appears on the cover of a January 2013 issue of Tu Ecuador magazine.
Phylicia Rashad interview
Rashad talks about beauty and her own self acceptance and the first time she felt beautiful.
When I gave birth to my son.
Rob Riggle interview
Riggle returns to the Conan couch to promote his new web series, Coogan Auto. He also talks about his actual method in making his NFL picks and some of his predictions for the Superbowl. He also explains a controversial photo featuring himself seemingly ogling Jennifer Lawrence.
This was so unfair! So, she won for Best Action Actress, and she’s amazing. She came up on the stage and I don’t even think I shook hands, I just said “Congratulations” and then we had to back away. And so she stepped up to the microphone, we were squared up and as she turned to the microphone, we all backed away. And as we backed away, I was looking to see where we were going, and sha-boom. Right there.
WWE Active interview
Torres talks to WWE Active about her frustrations with Smackdown General Manager, Booker T and his last minute changes to her Diva’s championship match.
This is completely unfair! Booker cannot add a stipulation last minute like this. He needs to be removed from his position as SmackDown General Manager.
TechCrunch interview
Scoble talks with Andrew Keen of TechCrunch about upcoming tech trends in 2014:
I think it’s going to be a war of wearables – do we buy an Apple Watch or Google Glass?
He says two other trends are going to be whether pay TV and ultra HD can compete with streaming, and whether Apple going to ‘take over the entire world’.
‘Made the Internet a thriving ecosystem’
The EFF offers a tribute to Swartz:
Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way,
‘A kid genius. A soul, a conscience’
Lessig writes a tribute to Swartz:
He was brilliant, and funny. A kid genius. A soul, a conscience, the source of a question I have asked myself a million times: What would Aaron think? That person is gone today, driven to the edge by what a decent society would only call bullying. I get wrong. But I also get proportionality. And if you don’t get both, you don’t deserve to have the power of the United States government behind you.
‘He belonged in the place where your thoughts are what matter’
Doctorow at BoingBoing writes:
I met Aaron when he was 14 or 15. He was working on XML stuff (he co-wrote the RSS specification when he was 14) and came to San Francisco often, and would stay with Lisa Rein, a friend of mine who was also an XML person and who took care of him and assured his parents he had adult supervision. In so many ways, he was an adult, even then, with a kind of intense, fast intellect that really made me feel like he was part and parcel of the Internet society, like he belonged in the place where your thoughts are what matter, and not who you are or how old you are.
This morning, a lot of people are speculating that Aaron killed himself because he was worried about doing time. That might be so…. But Aaron was also a person who’d had problems with depression for many years. He’d written about the subject publicly, and talked about it with his friends.
Value of college education interview
Willis interviews Kirk about the value of a college education:
Kids are waist deep in debt, and waht it does is disallows for entrepreneurial innoc=vation, and kids wont be able to follow their dreamsand they’re in some kind fo servitude for the next 20-30 years.
BBC Radio 6 interview
Branson tells Stuart Maconie on BBC Radio 6 Music that his Virgin stores were the first time music lovers could go to a proper store. An ad for the store:
There are no dopes at Virgin Records, that’s because all our customers are cool. They know a swell joint when they see one.
Branson:
The alternative was to go to a very staid Woolworths or Menzies to buy your music, it was incredibly dull, and this was the first time that people could come into a record shop and it would have pillows on the floor, there were bootlegs on the wall. There were people that actually knew about music, who went there to talk about music, and if you did smoke a joint sitting on the pillows you weren’t going to be told to leave the store. It was a proper music shop.
That attracted a crowd:
There was a shop in Liverpool which we opened… and the first week the takings were £20,000 and the next week it was £19k, next week £18k and it got down to about £500 and I decided I’d better go up to Liverpool to find out what was happening, and it had become a club. There was no way anybody could get to the till to buy any music. It was just a place that every single person in Liverpool went to hang out, and it was a free club of course. So that went a little bit too far
The Talks interview
Walken gives an interview to The Talks. He discusses his hair, his cats, and coming across old films of his on tv.
I’ve done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I’m proud of… Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them. I’ve never made a movie I wasn’t surprised to see.
GQ cover
Beyonce appears on the cover of the February 2013 issue of GQ magazine.
Ricky Gervais interview
Gervais returns to Conan and chats with O’Brien about his Scandinavian comedy tour and Netflix series, Derek. They briefly discuss Gervais’ bathtub Twitter photos, after which they both hop into a bubble bath-filled tub on stage to take a special Twitpic.
Lance Armstrong interview
Winfrey interviews Lance Armstrong on Oprah’s Next Chapter, the interview details allegations that Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career.
Time interview
Kassig tells the magazine about forming his NGO, SERA, after he was deployed to Iraq as an Army Ranger in 2007:
I divide by time between my personal volunteer efforts, my organizations relief operations, which include the distribution of aid materials such as medical equipment and children’s clothing, as well as food and cooking materials in both Lebanon and Syria.
Zooey Deschanel interview
Seacrest interviews Deschanel during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about her role in the TV show New Girl.
I’m just so grateful. I signed on to the show because I really believed in the material and I loved the character. I really love the people I’m working with, so I feel like I really lucked out. I love our writers.
LinkedIn interview
Branson is interviewed for LinkedIn. On women in leadership:
In the end, it’s down to individuals. I would encourage companies to work really hard towards getting a 50/50 split of women on their board — even to the extent of encouraging politicians to actually change laws to force a situation to where there’s 50% women on boards. Because in countries where they’ve done it — like Norway and Sweden — the companies seem to have benefited from it. But in the meantime, all of us who own companies must try to increase the size of our boards to make sure we get more women on the boards.
Claims he carried out spying operation
McAfee blogs that he organized a massive spying scheme to infiltrate the digital lives of the rich and powerful in Belize as revenge for a police raid on his home last year. He says that he gifted 75 laptops with keystroke spying software pre-installed to “government employees, police officers, Cabinet Minister’s assistants, girlfriends of powerful men, boyfriends of powerful women.” He claims that he hired 29 operatives to install similar tracking software on computers that targets already owned, sometimes getting close to them with sex. He also supposedly had lackeys join the ranks of two national phone companies to tap phones and get lists of contacts from Belizeans he wanted to keep his eye on. McAfee also arranged to have recorders “hidden under a bed, behind a piece of artwork, inside a pillow, in an old shoe” of government ministers. He claims to have evidence of numerous sexual affairs, the ordering of a murder by the nation’s prime minister and, above all, a Hezbollah trafficking plot to smuggling Lebanese men into the U.S.
Belize is clearly a central player in a larger network whose goal is to infiltrate the U.S. with individuals having links to terrorist organizations.