Offworld, Boing Boing’s new gaming blog
That web design is so retro it makes me want to eat mushrooms.
[via:Waxy]
17 November 2008
15 September 2008
14 September 2008
Court delays Indian Hari Puttar film release
“[Warner Bros] has been quoted as saying the the title of the Indian movie is confusing.”
8 September 2008
Religious pigfuckers in Russia Want South Park Banned
“[The Russian Union of Evangelical Christians] urged the prosecutors to ban the popular animated comedy series on the grounds that it contains “covert and overt propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia as norms of sexual life.”"
[via:Wired]
18 August 2008
Pandora can’t make money, may pull the plug
“Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company still isn’t making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it can’t last beyond its first payment of the higher royalties. SoundExchange offered a potential reprieve from the royalty hikes, but that turned out to be a red herring to sneak DRM onto web radio. In the end, SoundExchange was able to initiate a massive (and retroactive) royalty hike on Internet radio stations, imposing per-user fees for each song.”
16 August 2008
GITMO simulation at Coney Island amusement park
“If you climb up a few cinderblock steps to the small window, you can look through the bars at a scene meant to invoke a Guantánamo Bay interrogation. A lifesize figure in a dark sweatshirt, the hood drawn low over his face, leans over another figure in an orange jumpsuit, his face covered by a towel and his body strapped down on a tilted surface.”
[via:Metafilter]
15 August 2008
19 July 2008
Teaser trailer for Terminator Salvation (summer 2009)
As the first season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles struck me as surprisingly good, I wonder if this movie will live up to my restored quite flattering opinion of the Terminator universe.
[via:Bloggywood]
Firefly, Buffy creator’s free web series available until tomorrow
Those with an unhealthy Joss Whedon obsession need to watch “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along blog” right now (three short episodes). Hopefully, this experiment will the first in a new wave of quickly, cheaply but well produced non-suck series.