September 2008
68 posts
The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler... →
Muxtape Is Dead - Favtape Emerges as a Great... →
While Muxtape’s Justin Ouellette just posted a dire story about the shutdown of the popular mixtape service and his dealings with the music industry, Favtape has updated its service dramatically….
Pirate Bay Wins Court Case, Italian Block Lifted →
The Pirate Bay has successfully appealed the decision of an Italian judge who had ordered ISPs to block access to the popular BitTorrent tracker last month. The Court of Bergamo decided that this…
Funny: Found Wall Street ATM Receipt Shows... →
Internet Memes →
EA relents, changes Spore DRM. Too little, too... →
The story of Spore has become the story of EA and DRM: the company is now loosening the install limit and working on ways to get your installs back after use them up. For many gamers, however, any…
The State of Flash Gaming →
If Flash games were developed to the level of SNES games could a gaming site run a user pay model?
Two More Banks On Thin Ice →
Speculation is swirling about the futures of such major players as thrift bank Washington Mutual Inc. and investment bank Morgan Stanley. Media reports have been saying that Wells Fargo & Co. and…
Mozilla to remove Firefox EULA →
Ubuntu users who couldn’t stand the idea of a EULA (End User License Agreement) for the popular Firefox Web browser are going to get their way. The Mozilla Foundation’s chairperson, Mitchell Baker,…
Palin's Email Account Hacked (PHOTOS) →
The group known as Anonymous, which earlier took on Scientology, has published screenshots of e-mail messages and images that it says came from a private e-mail account belonging to Governor Sarah…
Zero Punctuation: Spore →
This week Zero Punctuation reviews Spore.
Google Chrome 1.1 Now Available →
Through a new developer program, Google is letting people try the latest versions of its Chrome Web browser, and the first update is available.
McCain is having a very bad day →
He does not understand the economy, yelled at morning show hosts, has conservative reporters turning on him, has an adviser say his VP choice cannot run a company.
Google to Acquire Valve? →
The Inquirer is reporting this morning that Google is close to an acquisition of Valve for an undisclosed price.
Breaking: First Android Phone to be sold Sept. 23 →
How many days are you willing to wait in front of a T-Mobile store to be the first own a gPhone? You might have to decide soon. According to the Reuters news agency, T-Mobile is set to announce…
SA Goons Are At It Again - Giant Pixel Art City →
I found waldo.
“Sorry man I can’t hang out with you tonight. I’m already behind my...”
Obama TV Ad: "Honor" →
On the air…
VLC media player 0.9.2 IS OUT! →
After more than two years of development and 100,000,000 VLC media player 0.8.6 downloads, the VideoLAN team is proud to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.2, codename “Grishenko”.. It’s…
[video] Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL →
Hilarious and dead-on.
MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless →
An estimated 150 million people continued to be without social lives as a massive system failure at MySpace.com entered its third day. “I’ve just been wandering in and out of my cubicle in a daze,…
Hyperinflation Here We Come:Last Gasp of a Doomed... →
Rather than solving the problems, the government’s bailouts merely confirm my worst fears, and increase the chances for a hyper-inflationary outcome. By nationalizing Freddie and Fannie, the…
RUMOR: Diablo 3 Release Date BEFORE StarCraft 2 →
Blizzard fan site BattleForums.com reports on the latest andmost surprising rumor concerning the recently-announced and long-awaited
Ranking The Films Of The Coen Brothers →
Check these Coen brother’s films Rankings– do you agree with this rundown?
Family Guy Creator Opens Cavalcade of Comedy For... →
Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane has launched his new site, which focuses on ad-supported comedy shorts, located at sethcomedy.com. The site’s offerings, titled “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of…
Digg restricts fast aka blind digging →
Try digging too many stories in a small time and you are presented with this message - “Whoa there cowboy! Itchy trigger finger? Digging so fast is lame. How about reading some stories instead?”
Zero Punctuation: Too Human →
The 1100-Odd Emails Sarah Palin Won't Release... →
The Palin administration won’t release hundreds of emails from her office, claiming they cover confidential policy matters. Then why do the subject lines refer to a political foe, a journalist, and…
CERN's Live Webcast →
The story of the LHC streams on a loop. On Wednesday, September 10, you can see the initialization live.
US officials think Kim Jong Il may be ill →
Western officials say there are signs that North Korea’s unpredictable dictator may be gravely ill, after the man North Koreans call the “Dear Leader” apparently failed to show up at an important…
Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of... →
A team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life. It’s not as Frankensteinian as it sounds. Instead, a lab led by Jack Szostak, a molecular biologist at Harvard…