Okay, Friday pop-quiz (at least for those who don’t read Cyrillic). The poster pictured to the left was the Russian release poster for what American film, which finally got released in the former USSR in 1990? This lovely example actually just brings up the phenomenon of Eastern European movie posters. As a bit of a […]
Eastern European Movie Poster Madness
February 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: media ramblings
Network Shaping is Bad. Period. Full Stop.
February 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
News out of the US that representative Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is trying to sneak anti-net neutrality language into the stimulus bill. In a nutshell, the senators amendment would tie additional broadband funding in the US with amended legislation that would allow ISP’s to implement “network management techniques” ostensibly to deter child pornography, and movie piracy, […]
Tags: A series of tubes · copyright reform · electronic entertainment · personal
The Piracy Battle – Two VERY different approaches
February 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I found it interesting that on the same day that American producers were again renewing the call to battle piracy (although, unsurprisingly not mentioning the latest US legal judgement that a pirated download does not constitute a “lost sale” for calculation of damages… something I’ve long argued the MPAA and RIAA are using to cloak […]
Tags: A series of tubes · electronic entertainment · filmmaking · media ramblings
How I finally managed to synchronize the address book and iCal between three macs, GMail, Google Calendar, an iphone, and a blackberry OR Why I love SpanningSync
February 6th, 2009 · No Comments
It’s the little things that drive you crazy. For a little over a year I’ve been trying to find an easy way to syncronize OSX Address Books and iCalendars between three separate computers at work. Roll that around on your tounge for a few minutes over a year. It’s a deceptively tricky problem – it’s […]
Tags: A series of tubes
Live From Gobblers Knob!
February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
I have to admit I’m a little confused on how we’re supposed to treat this, the most insane of meteorological celebrations, now that there is a vast field of pretenders to what was once Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania’s sole domain. Is it like the supreme court of Marmota Monax? With this years predictions in at 6:3 for […]
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Live From Gobblers Knob
February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
I have to admit I’m a little confused on how we’re supposed to treat this, the most insane of meteorological celebrations, now that there is a vast field of pretenders to what was once Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania’s sole domain. Is it like the supreme court of Marmota Monax? With this years predictions in at 6:3 for […]
Tags: A series of tubes · canadiana · media ramblings
Newspapers on the Internet? Aww… that will never work!
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments
A little Friday filler, via TechCrunch
Tags: A series of tubes · welcome to the future
I wish I was making this up.
January 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Pop Quiz Hotshot… a new Tokyopop Manga is published with the following (partial) description: “Trina Devi is the last of the Tantric Adepts and a master of the esoteric art of Stripfighting; a tantalizing fusion of Shaolin martial arts and Tantric sensuality, where practitioners use articles of clothing as weapons to subdue and incapacitate their […]
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