Techdirt suggests an interesting conundrum coming out of the ownership/copyright battle over the Flat Stanley character. In short (click here for the quick summary), Flat stanley was a character that was created, disappeared into obscurity and was revived by another person recently, only to create a stir over ownership rights between the family of the [...]
I know that winning an Olympic Medal is an honor that all amateur atheletes aspire to, but I think I’d pass if I was risking being known as the guy who faked being a girl to get the gold. Gardian.co.uk says that there are five “tweeners” heading to the Beijing Olympics. So to all you [...]
Via The Consumerist, the New York Times took the opportunity to feed the media frenzy the debt epidemic in America. The problem is, the article is not much more than a sob story about one of the millions of American citizens who have overextended themselves by borrowing during a lax credit cycle. This is nothing [...]
MacDailyNews is fueling the rumor that a tablet sized iTouch will be introduced by Apple in the coming months. The gang at Techcrunch were blueskying an open source version of this as well, but probably weren’t imagining the price tag that Apple likely would (Techcrunch says ~$200, Apple would probably lean towards tripling that at the very [...]
I understand that the anonymity that the Internet facilitates empowers people to speak up in forums where they would otherwise be unheard. In some ways, that is great. But in others, its a detriment to progress.
Techdirt talks about an upgrade to the Wikiscanner tool (now, Wikiwatcher) that has tracked the IP of editors of Wikipedia content. [...]
My guess is, this goes over like a fart in church. I’m not referring to the release of the new GnR song on Rock Band 2. That video game will make a killing. I mean the Chinese Democracy record in general. I do think its cool that they’re choosing to embrace a new and hot [...]
Treehugger contemplates the better option: Paper or Plastic shopping bags. I’ve never been a big fan of plastic bags because they always accumulate around the house and they are made with hydro-carbon based materials, which definitely are terrible for the environment. But I haven’t seen a paper bag in any grocery store in the area near [...]
Mark Cuban is right. The Internet is passe. He’s got a pretty insightful piece on his blog from a few days ago talking about how the Internet is recognized as the solution for everything these days, while he argues that its seen its potential, and that something better is surely on its way.
I think I’ve [...]
