In a bout of self importance, Star Wars producer Rick McCallum told a Melbourne audience that the fight against P2P swapping of films was as important as the war on terrorism
Dublin’s Trinity College Library administrator, Robin Adams, would like to discuss an uncanny resemblance between the 18th-century Long Room Library at Trinity, and the Jedi Archives
in the latest episode of the Star Wars
epic
Pixar has been sued by artist Stanley Mouse. Mouse created a movie treatment titled Excuse My Dust
, which was set in Monster City
, where the animated monster characters worked for the Monster Corporation of America
. One of the characters was a green, wisecracking, ambulatory eyeball. Furthermore, the lawsuit claims that a story artist from Pixar visited Mouse in 2000, and discussed Mouse’s work
John Halderman, a computer scientist from Princeton University in New Jersey, plans to show delegates at a digital copyright conference in Washington DC next week that the idea of CD copy-prevention is fundamentally misguided
Clare Milne, whose grandfather AA Milne gave the world Winnie the Pooh, is seeking to claw back US commercial control of the honey-loving bear who has enchanted children across the globe for three-quarters of a century
Japanese animators Masamune Shiro (Ghost in the Shell) and Hajime Katoki (Gundam) have decided to apply their creative design skills to a new line of limited edition optical mice — via Slashdot
A group of Washington insiders backed by the Sci Fi Channel calls for the release of government UFO-related evidence. Sci Fi plans to milk the connection to hype its forthcoming UFO miniseries Taken
The BBC have won the battle with the Metropolitan Police over the trademark police box, more commonly known as a TARDIS
Microsoft must face a lawsuit by the University of California accusing the world’s biggest software maker of using patented technology without permission in its Internet Explorer Web browser
Nicolas Cage has sold his personal comic book collection, including a copy of Superman’s 1938 pulp debut, at auction for more than US$1.6 million
Core Design is launching an Angel of Darkness version of its hit Lara Croft game, but so far no women have applied to work as testers for the project
A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours
The entertainment industry is facing a formidable obstacle in pursuing Napster’s major successor, KaZaA: geography
Dennis Hopper is to play Sinatra in a re-creation of the singer’s notorious 1974 Australian tour
In a case of speedy justice a jury today ruled that Neil Gaiman was in the right on all 9 counts in the case he brought against Todd McFarlane. This case revolved around ownership stakes for Medieval Spawn, Angela, Cagliostro, and further contracts involving the rights to Miracle Man
Frank Robinson is a man who is into Lego way more than the average builder. At last count the Robinson family’s Lego inventory was nearing 100,000 pieces, a majority of which were tallied and itemised by type and colour on a computer spreadsheet. No Lego story would be complete without a link to something large and useless, say, a Lego harpsichord. Okay, it plays, so it’s not actually useless. How about the Lego Star Destroyer — via Slashdot
There is a method of extracting audio from scanned images of vinyl records. While this method creates exceptionally noisy samples, you can definitely hear the underlying music
Net venture business Planet Co has developed a PDA that enables customers to listen to the contents of music CDs simply by having the PDA sensor recognise the bar code attached to CD’s plastic cover
Foxtel has pledged to spend $600 million on digital television by October 2003 if the competition watchdog approves the revised pay-TV deal with Optus
Neil Gaiman has won this year’s Hugo for wonderful his novel American Gods
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