Tubesville is a custom amp shop in NYC that builds whimsical custom amplifiers like this Victrola-like iPod amplifier / speaker cabinet combination.
You can also connect the old CD Walkman upto it instead — via boingboing
Fairfax’s literary editor Malcolm Knox has accused Norma Khouri, the author of Forbidden Love
, of fraud. Ms Khouri’s book, Forbidden Love
, tells the story of her best friend, a Jordanian woman, who was murdered by her father for falling in love with a Christian man. Ms Khouri says she fled Jordan after the incident, writing the story and making her way to Australia. Mr Knox claims he has proof she lived in America for most of her life and only lived in Jordan until she was three
Weebl has some more toony goodness. Meet Magical Trevor and his amazing vanishing cow. And the Badgers are back for Euro 2004
Sony are planning to officially reveal the PlayStation 3 at the E3 Expo in May 2005. They’re obviously not wanting to be outdone by Nintendo, who announced the same plans for the GameCube successor, as well as Xbox 2’s rumoured debut around that time
Charles Green, a would-be novelist, was doing a crossword puzzle during his flight, and scribbled a line of dialogue in the margin: I know this is kind of a bomb
. It seems his terminally stupid seatmate panicked and dobbed him in. When they landed, Mr Green was accosted by police, and now is on Homeland Security’s watch list — via HogBlog
The movie industry, in yet another illustration of just how much damage the Internet is doing to the long-suffering members of the MPAA, has just endured a record breaking $1 billion dollar takings for the single month of June. Clearly there is a desperate need to tighten up copyright laws in the face of this huge mountain of cash that is literally being metaphorically siphoned into the studios’ pockets. How will they survive? — via Slashdot
Australia’s most successful band, AC/DC, looks set to have a city lane named after it. Melbourne City Council is tonight expected to approve a recommendation to rename Corporation Lane, a narrow alley off Flinders Lane, ACDC Lane — not AC/DC Lane, as street names in the CBD are not permitted to have slashes — in honour of the band’s global success. There is already a street named Calle de AC/DC on the outskirts of Madrid
Ever want to silence the urban assault vehicle beside you at the stop light, pounding out gangster angst at orthodontia-rattling volumes? Now you can courtesy of Engadget
JK Rowling has silenced the rumour-mongers by confirming the new book in her series will be called Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The author of the multi-million selling books revealed the title but gave no indication of when the book would come out. Rowling laughed at suggestions the new book was to be called Harry Potter and The Pillar of Storge
Michael Moore has welcomed the appearance on the internet of pirated copies of his anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 and claimed he is happy for anybody to download it free of charge — via BoingBoing
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that ISPs do not have to pay royalties to composers and artists for music downloaded by web customers. Companies providing wide access to the web are merely intermediaries
who are not bound by Canadian copyright legislation, the court said in a 9-0 ruling
www.happytreefriends.com. This site / collection of toons is fantastic! The production is first class, the characters are so fluffy and retro cute, but the extreme violence is truly grotesque, and amazing.
I was squirming in my seat, the violence and gore are just so well thought out. But you’ve just gotta keep watching until you yourself start to feel what it would be like to go through the perils these innocent big eyed woodland creatures are subject to.
First rate violent toon all the way.
An Australian music activist has posted what he claims to be a draft position paper from the country’s peak music industry body that rejects proposals to introduce a blank media levy paid to copyright owners as compensation for the copying of music for private and domestic purposes
It may soon be possible to carry around an AK-47 assault rifle and an iPod with you down the street — and be arrested for carrying the iPod. That’s according to critics of a Senate amendment to the copyright code proposed by Senator Orrin Hatch this week called the Induce Act
. He wants to make the intentional inducement of copyright infringement
an offence, and this will extend liability to any manufacturer of a device which plays infringed material, or a shop that sells such a device, they say — via BoingBoing
The third volume of Invader Zim, Horrible Holiday Cheer, is slated for a Christmas release
Ever wondered where on earth late-night radio jocks like Stan Zemanek, below, find their motley crew of eccentric, opinionated callers? Some are created by insomnia and too much alcohol, no doubt, but on Zemanek’s show several characters are the creation of the voiceover specialist Bryan Wiseman
Music business analyst Phil Tripp is pushing for a change to the Copyright Act that would give consumers the legal chance to copy music for their personal use
Harry Potter author JK Rowling now has her own official site which is very slick indeed.
Site produced by these guys Lightmaker.
If you need factual film background beyond what the Internet Movie Database can offer, then Masters of Cinema may be for you. The site has news and articles about classic foreign cinema and features links to Web information on scores of noted directors such as Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Antonioni and Hitchcock. Release dates of selected movies on DVD are also a feature — via journoz
The recording industry is testing technology that would prevent consumers from making copies of CD burns, a piracy defence that could put some significant new restrictions on legally purchased music
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