If anyone deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, it's the creators of the Internet Movie Database. Can you imagine how many arguments have been settled because of that site? And would you believe that it's been around 19 years as of this past Saturday?
The National Basketball Association established new guidelines restricting the use of social media sites like Twitter by its players and banning the use of such sites during games.
Alternately titled: Trent Reznor Takes His Ball and Goes Home.
The BBC invited a 13-year-old to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week. Miraculously, he survived.
When getting ready to write this post, I was trying to find a picture of the Sports Walkman that my family had when I was a kid, just because I thought it was the best illustration of the idea of electronics for active people in ancient times (read: 20 years ago).
Ever since they came out almost two years ago I have coveted my neighbor's Kindle.
Books and electronic handheld technology combined? It makes me all warm on the insides.
Since we can all agree that the best thing in the whole world is the iPhone, (Don't even try to deny it. The only people who disagree are people who don't have one. *she sings* I'd like to buy the world an iPhone and keep it company.) what is the one thing that would make Sarah the happiest in the whole world?
(Not including the ability to lose weight while eating bacon and drinking beer and watching Tampa Bay winning the Super Bowl whilst receiving oral sex, because clearly that would be better than what I am about to tell you about, but not by much.)
Behold: The Kindle App for the iPhone:
An anonymous plaintiff sued Jason Fortuny, a "famous" Internet troll for invasion of privacy through the publication of private facts, and intrusion, after Mr. Fortuny allegedly posted the man's photograph and personal information on the Internet. I did not even know anonymous plaintiffs could sue. Don't you have to name yourself in lawsuits?
I guess not, because anonymous plaintiff won $74,252.56 in damages, attorneys fees, and costs when the court entered a default judgment against Jason. A default judgment means he did not answer or defend the complaint.
First spammers, now trolls. The Internet is starting to not be so friendly to idiots.
sniff.
Best t-shirt ever? Perhaps. Unless you know of one you think is better? Well do ya? Huh, punk?
(Actually, this one brings tears of joy to my eyes as well.)
A little brainteaser for all the geeks in our audience. Okay, fine, we're all geeks. Make that "for our audience."
"President Obama reportedly gave an iPod, loaded with 40 show tunes, to England's Queen Elizabeth II as a gift. Did he violate the law when he did so?
You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to this question."
For real. Read the full article at Electronic Frontier Foundation's website. It's weirdly interesting.
(Personally, I lost all faith in our copyright laws thanks to the continued existence of Coldplay.)
Twitter is coming into play more and more into crimes. And celebrities love twitter. So you would expect a marriage of the two. But this is a first. A celebrity sued for what they said on twitter. Courtney Love just won the distinction of being the first celebrity sued for tweeting.
In Los Angeles Superior Court, clothes designer Dawn Simorangkir, also known as Boudoir Queen, last Thursday filed suit against Courtney for defamation, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress for "an extensive rant" on Twitter about how she was billed for custom clothing.
How extensive could she have been? You are limited to 140 characters.
Today, I return to the establishment of higher learning where I work and study after a full week of sloth. I would like to say I did only things that engaged my mind, body and spirit — read classic literature, did Iyengar yoga or learned to rock climb. But those would be lies.
No, poppets. I watched RuPaul's Drag Race with Miss Banshee. And we LAUGHED and LAUGHED and made snarky comments about Shannel's big ego and Jade's big cock. What's so special about watching TV and wise-crackin' with your best girlfriend? Well, it's kinda different if one of you resides in New Jersey, whilst the other represents Washington State. Yet watch together we do, and it's all thanks to the magic of the internets and Logo Online, which has the entire season of Drag Race available online.
The rise of 3D movies is quickly becoming the new "thing" for movies, particularly those aimed at kids and tween audiences. There are at least 10 more 3D movies set to be released this year, and I've already seen three of them: My Bloody Valentine 3D (it was free), Coraline, and now Monsters vs. Aliens.
I love twitter. Anyone who follows me on twitter knows I love twitter. Celebrities love twitter. P Diddy just explained twitter to Ellen and she signed right up. But tweeting minute by minute details of you being stalked? Even I, who literally tweets every minute of her life, thinks that's a little bit too far.
Erykah filed a police report after a performance in Austin, Texas. She said a stalker came to her house and ended up being “hogg tied and pepper sprayed" and also said all she could think while this was going on was the incident being on Bossip. Erykah seems to think about the internet a lot.
I took a two week vacation. And it was awesome. And I watched no television while I was away. But television did not take a two week vacation. In fact, it was February sweeps, with things like the Grey's Anatomy Private Practice cross over and a medical crises on General Hospital!
I have 40 plus hours of television to catch up on. And it keeps recording. These are not the kids shows I record for my three year old. These are all things I watch. I have 14 hours of General Hospital alone to watch. And it keeps recording it. I could watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report every day for the rest of my life and still not catch up.
I think I watch too much television.
Authored by super special guest contributor and honorary MamaPop Bestard, Travis of The Holmes
Some friends of mine hold an Oscar party every year where all the guests receive a list of the nominees when they walk in the door. Everybody is supposed to go through the list and select their picks for the winners in every category, and whoever gets the most right gets a prize or some shit. My choices in this little game are never anything more than guesses, some perhaps informed a bit by hype I may have heard on the news, others complete shots in the dark. I’ve yet to win any prizes, but I make it through. Somehow.
See, It’s a pretty sure bet when Oscar time rolls around that I will not have seen any of the nominees. Maybe one if I’m lucky. I have this bad habit of not getting out much. The last movie I saw in the theater was this piece of shit called The Uninvited, an atrocious remake of the far superior Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters. And even though I live in a town with plenty of theaters that serve alcohol, I ended up seeing this bit of celluloid swiss cheese at a dry cinema. A different venue would have probably made a significant difference in my opinion of the film’s quality. I saw Freddy vs. Jason in the theater back when it came out, but in that case I saw it at Austin’s beloved Alamo Drafthouse, a place that shows movies the way they should be seen. They offer a plentiful variety of beer, some wine, pizza, burgers, wings, desserts, all served by waiters that bring it right to you and know how to walk hunchbacked so they don’t block the screen. By the time the blood started spurting, I had already made a nice dent in my first bucket of brew. I stumbled out of the theater insisting to all in earshot that it was absolutely a shoe-in for best picture.
Chris Ogle is from New Zealand. Last year while vacationing in Oklahoma he bought a used MP3 player from a thrift store. About a month ago he hooked it up to his computer to download some music and you will never guess what he found. (Unless of course you read the title of my post or watch the news.)
He did not score a free copy of the leaked tracks from Chinese Democracy. It wasn't another Pamela Anderson and random rocker sex tape nor was it Final Fantasy 9 cheat codes.
Boyfriend found US military files. Good ones too.
The name is Obama, Barack Obama and like most of us he is constantly checking his BlackBerry.
Unlike most of us, he has a new job where he is privy to classified information and his e-mails that if leaked could change the outcome of world events, cause wars, induce widespread panic or possibly all of the above.
Here comes the cool part - whoever plays Q in the federal government is going to give Obama a super secret spy proof phone.
Oh, Criterion. How do I love thee? You release stunning remastered DVDs of every awesome movie ever, from Amarcord to Dazed and Confused. As soon as I hit the lottery, I'm buying every single movie in their collection.
If they weren't already awesome enough, Criterion has joined the league of sites to offer free streaming media online.
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