This weekend and this weekend only, the entire world is welcome to a festival made up of what are arguably the best movies ever made when the folks at Hulu put the fabulous Criterion Collection online for free (well okay, with commercials, but still, close enough). All of the Criterion movies are regularly available on […]
In a move that’s difficult not to view as ironic, recently retired Congressman Ron Paul filed an international complaint with the WIPO on Friday, demanding the organization (an agency of the United Nations) turn over both the RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org domains from the current owners. Those current owners being Paul’s own supporters who have run […]
If you were a teenage comic book geek in the 1990s, you probably remember the slightly tentative steps that publishers like Marvel and DC took toward digital distribution of their products. Browser-based, semi-animated webcomics were a weird little ghetto within the comic book industry, a way to give some low-risk exposure to unknown writers and […]
In 1999, the European Commission came up with the Safer Internet Programme with the goal of promoting safe and responsible use of the internet by children and young adults. In 2004, Safer Internet Day was developed as a special day each year to promote safer use of the internet and online technologies. That day has […]
Butler’s Wharf lies on the south bank of the Thames, just to the East of Tower Bridge. One hundred years ago, tea clippers unloaded crates of tea from China and India, a commodity that made many investors rich and cemented the reputation of the Brits as a nation of tea drinkers, exchanging gossip over the […]
Never has liking a post on Tumblr or retweeting someone felt so profound. Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, presently floating through space on the ISS as the flight engineer, has taken it upon himself to take jaw-dropping pictures of the Earth from space and then post those pictures on Tumblr. There is an astronaut currently in […]
Almost 10 years after the final episode of Dexter’s Laboratory aired on Cartoon Network, the channel has finally released a much-rumored lost episode. This lost episode, called “Dexter’s Rude Removal”, was originally created to show during Cartoon Network parties and has only rarely been seen at a small handful of animation conventions. Why the secrecy […]
Israel-based ebook site Total Boox is introducing a new business model based on charging consumers by a per-page-read basis for the books they purchase. Company CEO Yoav Lorch believes this business model appeasl to readers, publishers, and writers, describing the per-page system as a “powerful marketing channel” to access new readers and increase revenue by […]
“We’ll be fighting in the streets, with our children at our feet And the morals that they worship will be gone, and the men who spurred us on Sit in judgment of all wrong.” “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who If you know these words, chances are you’re a nerd. A milquetoast. A milksop. […]
In case you missed it over the weekend, an exploit was found in Oracle’s JDK7 version of Java that was so bad that it led the United States government to issue a statement suggesting users turn Java off ASAP. That’s a pretty big deal. Oracle rushed a patch out the door, but security experts are […]
