The Babylon 5 feature film has been cancelled
Hunter S Thompson, the American counterculture writer, has been found dead at his home in Colorado. His body was found by his son, Juan, after he had shot himself. He was 67. He pioneered gonzo journalism
, a factual style in which the writer was an essential part of the story. Worthwhile checking out The Motorcycle Gangs: Losers and Outsiders
ABC television will have a younger sibling from 7 March in the form of ABC2, the broadcaster’s new free-to-air digital channel
Former MP3.com chief and Lindows CEO Michael Robertson will reenter the music world next week with MP3tunes, a service that promises music without DRM restrictions. MP3tunes hopes to attract users who are fed up with restrictions on copying music from sites that use digital-rights-management techniques, such as iTunes
Google has been quietly developing Google Video, an engine that lets people search the text of TV shows
Hey, if you’re in Sydney on Thursday, come and watch me blast out some evil tunes. It’s upstairs at the Australian Youth, for free, and I’m on at 9.30. Half price cocktails also : )
Sony missed out on potential sales from MP3 players and other gadgets because it was overly proprietary about music and entertainment content
David Duchovny and Chris Carter are planning on making a sequel to their X-Files movie. They say that they would like the movie to be released summer 2006
Brendan Themes is a punk-folk musician whose stuff is like Billy Bragg’s best music crossed with a little Beck and some Leo Kottke. His CD is available for free under a Creative Commons license from the Internet Archive — via boingboing
Rich is both a case modder and Lego fan, so it should come as no surprise that he combined his two loves to build Lego case mods. These are not just a Lego shell around a case, he’s used the Lego to support everything
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the US in the year 2004 despite the growing popularity of legal digital music downloads through services such as iTunes. On the other hand, a report from last July noted that pirated CD sales have hit a record high. Sounds like the RIAA should be going after the real pirates, not little Susie or Grandma
A brave BitTorrent server operator has decided to pick a fight with the MPAA and is asking for donations to help it mount a legal defense against the movie studios. LokiTorrent is one of the numerous BitTorrent hubs being sued by the MPAA for pointing users to copyrighted films. A number of other popular BitTorrent sites shut down their operations after being sent cease and desist letters from the MPAA, but LokiTorrent has vowed to press on and face the studios in court
There’s a trailer for Sin City on Apple’s preview site. The film is being co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller himself. The video is dinky in size but it is gorgeous, it really looks like they somehow took Miller’s comic style and made it into a movie. High contrast, sometimes looks like line art, cool sparse use of colour — via Slashdot
Ben Browder, best known as Farscape’s John Crichton, will become a Stargate SG-1 regular starting from season nine, joining the SG-1 team although is role is unclear. He will fill the gap left by Anderson who’s unlikely to return except for small appearances. Claudia Black, Farscape’s Aeryn Sun, is also going to play in a fair number of episodes
The Sherlock Holmes Society of London has hundreds of free MP3s of Sherlock Holmes radio plays from the 1930s — via boingboing
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe scored the winning entry in this year’s Literary Review Bad Sex Award with the appalling: Slither slither slither slither went the tongue, but the hand that was what she tried to concentrate on, the hand, since it has the entire terrain of her torso to explore and not just the otorhinolaryngological caverns — oh god, it was not just at the border where the flesh of the breast joins the pectoral sheath of the chest — no, the hand was cupping her entire right — Now! She must say “No, Hoyt” and talk to him like a dog…
I’m writing a text adventure using Inform (the language the Zork series was written in), and I have a couple of rooms ready for playstesting. Here’s what you need to do:
- Using Firefox, install Gnusto, which is a runtime that lets you play these games in your browser.
- Download my little game and open it in Gnusto.
- Refresh your memory on how to play text adventures.
- Play through the game and post comments and suggestions here, e.g. if you find a bug or you the game wouldn’t let you do something reasonable.
Google will expand its ability for searching books by working with five major libraries, including those at the University of Michigan and Oxford University, as well as the New York Public Library, to digitise out-of-print and copyrighted works
The first theatrical Babylon 5 movie, The Memory of the Shadows
starts filming in April. The story was written by series creator J Michael Straczynski
A study by US researchers, Pew Internet, suggests musicians do not agree with the tactics adopted by the music industry against file-sharing. While most considered file-sharing as illegal, many disagreed with the lawsuits launched against downloaders. Independent musicians, in particular, saw the internet as a way to get around the need to land a record contract and reach fans directly
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