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It’s time for another quickie round-up of three court cases that are on my mind this week. What do they have in common? They’re all tech-related, and they’ve all got me scratching my head. Ontario Judge rules that Canadians should have no expectation of privacy from law enforcement on-line. This ruling (among other things) asserts […]

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I don’t mind sharing geek culture with the masses, but I find it difficult to explain (even to friends) how weird it is to see “Watchmen” stuff everywhere. It’s like, my adolescent fever-dreams have escaped to manifest themselves as novelty keychains, or collectible limited-edition coffees. Thankfully Bully, the little stuffed bull, eases my pain with […]

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Thanks to God   2 Reference to Obama or “Change”   4 Reference to the recession, “tough economic times”   2 Crying   5 Direct cut between Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt   2 “I didn’t expect to win…”   1 Someone trips   0 The orchestra cuts off a speech   1 A speech […]

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Just thought a quick follow up to last weeks “Coraline” prognostications might be in order to see if I was – in fact – right. Lo and behold – everything I suggested did indeed come to pass. “Coraline” had the smallest decrease (again) of wide-release holdovers to get up to $53.3M (which, incidentally, outgrosses the […]

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It’s the “Christmas in February” for those of you, like me, who are preternaturally obsessed with comic book retail data. Brian Hibbs 2008 “Tilting at Windmills” BookScan report is up, wherein Brian combs through the massive BookScan database to tell us what trends he sees in his crystal… excel spreadsheet. There is some kind of […]

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Okay, I need some help (more so than usual ba-dum! Try the veal). For two weeks now there’s been a word on the tip of my tongue that, for the life of me, I just can’t remember. I’ve tried Google, I’ve tried dictionaries and thesauruses… all to no avail. There is a particular term that […]

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If you haven’t guessed from my impromptu “theme” portrait change last week, I really, really, liked Henry Selick’s “Coraline”… which is interesting, because I was decidedly lukewarm on Neil Gaimans novel (admittedly I’m probably not the target audience, but that hasn’t stopped me from raving about other work even less demographically aligned). I was somewhat […]

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