News spread like wildfire yesterday about Apple banning the sale of Saga #12 due to it containing graphic imagery of gay sex, even if the images were relatively small. Now, it turns out that ComiXology is lifting the blame form Apple and putting it on itself instead. Today, ComiXology CEO David Steinberger posted the following […]
On the opening day of this year’s Sea Air Space Expo, the wonder con for all things naval aviation, the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command announced a planned 2014 deployment of its long-awaited, functional solid state Laser Weapon System (LaWS). Scheduled for installation aboard the amphibious transport dock, USS Ponce, the production of an operational […]
Thanks to hair-brained Twitter schemes by those who thankfully don’t know any better than to offend, an angry feminist can also be a funny feminist when making pointed social commentary. Back in February, those who lead the MRA (men’s rights activists) movement created the hashtag #Ineedmasculism as a way to show solidarity in the idea […]
Some point in the late 1990s during one late Sunday night in Brixton, South London, I was waiting on a bus to go home. A guy came up to me, mumbling. I became nervous. Was he a nutter about to stab me? He had a hood on and it was drizzling lightly, if I recall […]
Without any fanfare, Tumblr managed to tick up to and past the 100 million blog mark this week. The burgeoning internet giant, founded in 2007 by David Karp, has gone on to have more than 44.6 billion posts by its many users. Blogs range from the celebrity-run kind to social movements to fandom-obsessed (Hello, Whovians, […]
It’s undeniable that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has become an entertainment powerhouse in the last few years. Most known for his appearance in movies such as Looper, The Dark Knight Rises, 50/50, Inception, JGL recently made his full-length feature directorial and screenwriting debut with Don Jon. The quickly rising star (who’s been rising since before he had […]
If you’ve noticed a perceptible slowdown in internet speeds lately, that may not just be your local internet provider trying to cap your download speeds. A massive attack on anti-spam guardian, Spamhaus, has had major repercussions on the rest of the internet. Spamhaus, based out of London and Geneva, tracks spam back to its sources […]
Many of you will have noticed your Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook feeds turn red over the last 36 hours. Your politicians, favorite celebrities, and numerous internet meme-creators have all switched their IDs red with two complimentary stripes, a variation on the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality symbol. In case you have been on a serious NyQuil […]
South by Southwest lasts 10 days during the month of March. The festival takes place in Austin, TX. SXSW is broken up into three sections: Interactive, Film, and Music. Throughout the festival, many innovations come to light and old ideas are reinvented. Most days’ events begin with panels at 9:30 or 11 AM and end […]
Every year, the Interactive portion of SXSW exhibits new technologies and introduces the people behind them. Pop culture would have you believe that women are uninterested in science and technology, with depictions of the people in those fields being distinctly male. This could not be farther from the truth if the impressive lineup of women […]
