Big Dawg does a 360: Former President Bill Clinton appears in a new short movie about East Africa that was made with virtual reality techniques.
The 360-degree cameras make you feel like you are in the same room with Clinton while he chats with a Tanzanian entrepreneur, visits a classroom in Nairobi, and flirts with the intern who brings him his mail and skinny soy latte at his New York City office.
Surfing the vast cultural wasteland: “San Francisco 2.0,” a documentary by filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (daughter of the Democratic House leader), looks at how the digital boom and extreme income inequality have changed The City.
For one thing, housing has gotten so expensive in San Francisco that homeless people can make a few bucks by renting out their largest cardboard boxes on Airbnb.com.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1850, the U.S. Navy banned flogging as punishment.
This day in 1928 also was a good day for sailors, as that was when penicillin was discovered.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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