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Last week an e-mail went around at Time announcing that they were shutting down Nirvana.
This is not something that affects anybody anywhere. Not even here. Nirvana is, or was, the part of Time‘s internal network responsible for shuttling files and documents and memos in between Time‘s various …
1. Futurama is coming back:
“When we brought back Family Guy several years ago, everyone said that it was a once in a lifetime thing—that canceled series stay canceled and cannot be revived,” the executives said in a joint statement. “But Futurama was another series that fans simply demanded we bring back, and we couldn’t
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1) E3 is much quieter now than in past years. Also less hot, better ventilation. Doesn’t smell quite as much like finger grease. Still a great place to fart without fear of detection, though.
2) What recession? The game companies’ shrines to their new product are as opulent and massive and shiny as in 2006.
3) The game I …
So I’m in Seattle getting my pre-E3 briefing from Microsoft and I plum forgot to blog until now. (If anybody knows what plum means in that sentence, feel free to let me know.) I have no idea whatsoever what’s going on in the wider world. But I wanted to write up a few notes about LeakyCon, where I was last week. I’m going to lay it on …
LeakyCon 2009 starts tomorrow in Boston. I’ll be there. I’m doing a presentation on Friday morning about my book, and generally how Harry Potter has changed fantasy — check the schedule, yo. Stop by if you’re there? Although I am brutally scheduled opposite the Wizard Rock roundtable.
OK, I know this thing has been kicking around since 2004, but I only just got to it this weekend. (I checked it out after watching the trailer for the Harry Potter fandom documentary We Are Wizards.)
Brad Neely — the comic who did Babycakes and suchlike disturbing/funny Internet stuff (if you haven’t watched it, you might think …
The thing I always noticed about Wolverine in the comics is, he’s running around waving these massive adamantium claws, and he never seemed to cut people all that much. I mean seriously, I can’t peel a potato without removing the tip of my thumb (true story, thank God for my mutant healing factor). You’d expect panels with him in it to …
About 18 months ago, a few of my buds and I were ovulating a scheme for something we were calling the Social News Network.
The idea was pretty simple: How could we use Facebook to create a news network? I figured we’d start with a website, baited with news items that were irresistible to Facebookers, who’d then link to them and …
Is it wrong that I sort of … almost … agree with Rupert Murdoch on newspapers charging for content?
Though I suppose it could only work if news-providers went into it all together, simultaneously, en masse. I’m not at all convinced that current numbers point to an inevitable Jurassic-style print-media die-off. Some of those bad …
Last night I went to the “gala” dinner for the Time 100. It’s always a bizarre experience — this video is not actually unrepresentative. Basically it’s like you’re standing next to a woman who looks a lot like Claire Danes, and you look over at her, and instead of it turning out to not be Claire Danes, it actually turns out to be Claire …
For years one of the fundamental questions facing any tech reporter was about cyberwarfare. Did it in fact exist? Was anybody actually cyberwarfighting? Other than disaffected Chinese teenagers? Or did we just sort of want them to, because it would be cool?
I guess now they are.
When American forces in Iraq wanted to lure members of
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