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LifestreamThere is talk of Revamping the Movie Distribution Chain, meaning that would be released simultaneously in theaters and on DVDs (as well as other possible formats). Steven Soderberg is the self-proclaimed guinea pig. It’s not certain that the industry will follow-through on the idea though, after all there is a long tradition to break.
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Archive for September, 2005
National Enquirer digs into George Bush’s alleged relapse of alcohol abuse. Not exactly me favorite source to quote but the psychology of alcoholics is kind of predictable and for lack of a better terms, “it’s in their nature.” So it would be no big leap of imagination to think that there could be some truth [...]
Wired notes how much people hate hearing Leaf Blowers. They even provide a link to Husqvarna’s new 356BTx. But the basic premise that they get wrong here is that leaves don’t have to be removed. Raked or blown or otherwise. It’s just some esthetic nonsense humans have been fixed on. Like striving towards perfect homogenized [...]
Sabbah’s Blog points to a VERY telling example of how deeply rooted some habits are and how slow people are to connect one thing with another. Like … don’t bring your assault rifle to a beauty pageant promoting peace.
Indeed. CNET is correct. We have seen it before. This is back to the future, sort of.
A Washington Post story about the FBI’s forming of an anti-pornography squad threw some bloggers back to the 1980s when then Attorney General Edwin Meese took on obscenity as his signature issue.
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Last month, the bureau began recruiting for the [...]
Less coverage of the very real plague spreading in the non-virtual world.
Arstechnica - Players of Blizzard’s incredibly popular World of Warcraft are reporting the outbreak of a virtual plague that is spreading across major cities in the virtual land of Azeroth, infecting player characters at an alarming rate.
Here is some flamebait that I think could entice people. As politicians, opportunists and clueless pundits around the globe have been falling over themselves to bless the recently departed Simon Wiesenthal, there are those that tell a different story. And it is a story that needs to come out among the onslaught of shallow journalistic [...]
March of the Penguins Supporting Intelligent Design Theory. Really?
Christian conservatives have claimed that March of the Penguins, the documentary of emperor penguins by Luc Jacquet, is a film that support Intelligent Design.
The film, narrated by Morgan Freeman, distributed by Warner Independent Pictures, is a real-life documentary which follows a flock of emperor penguins in the [...]
Democracy Now! noted that it seems the federal government, backed by its party cohorts and staunch critics of environmental considerations like Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla), is trying to place the blame of excessive flooding in the wake of Katrina on environmentalists.
The Mississippi Clarion Ledger is reporting that it has obtained internal emails from the Justice [...]
No, it’s not something you wear on your ass … unfortunately.
You can always trust the Daily Show to pick out the social and moral shortcomings of the US society. Last night’s episode features an interview with “entrepreneur” Benjamin Rogovy, who launched a controversial advertising campaign last month to promote his Poker site. Since he felt [...]
