Not a lot of work has been taking place at HQ this afternoon. Been a lot of playing with the Google + beta. So far, I think the coolest feature is their circles system. This allows you to have ways of grouping people you know. For example, if you used to live in one city […]
Moses Avalon reported: In a surprise move yesterday CitiBank, who is in receivership of EMI/Capitol Records, after its parent company Terra Firma defaulted on their loans earlier this year, put the Hollywood landmark, known as the Capitol Records Building up for sale. Kodak announced the roll-out of photo tattoos. These work much the way T-shirt […]
When the Sucker Punch billboards first went up in my neighborhood, I felt conflicted. It seemed, on the face of it, to have a decent checklist of things I would like in a movie, but I instinctively lizard-brain hated it. Upon reflection and now that the uniformly negative reviews of the movie are in, here […]
As a creative person, I’m a lot more likely to own intellectual property than, ya know, tangible physical real world property. But, damn, Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde have been sentenced to jail time. In addition, banker Carl Lundström has been sentenced to jail time for financially backing the site. Given how […]
How comically are we living in a dark dystopian cyperpunk future, where the Microsoft corporation wants to have the power of a nation state and it gives people job titles involving the expression Trustworthy Computing? I mean, for fuck’s sake. (I hope I don’t lose my internet license for cussing.) Allow me to explain what […]
We’ve all seen people online begging for PayPal donations or cash in the mail or for people to buy some product from them . . . not because the product is good or because they are working for a charity, but just because they claim to need money. Some say they need money for medical […]