Misc

This is a geek culture blog. It’s specifically here for me to blow off steam when I’m sick of writing tech-biz-gadget stories. So I frequently excuse myself from weighing in on hot-button topics like DRM. I’m going to do that again by linking to this fine analysis of the Apple-EMI announcement yesterday by the competition at …

From the online SF mag Darker Matter comes a little-seen interview with Douglas Adams from 1979, complete with vintage audio samples. It conjures up visions of an Edenic counter-Earth on which the Graham Chapman-Douglas Adams-scripted Ringo Starr TV special actually saw the light of day. (Or maybe it’s a nightmare alternate reality that …

Still haven’t beaten that deadline. Still posting YouTube clips. FTW. Herewith the PG-recut of 300, via Penny Arcade.

I think it says something about my personal psychology that until I actually went and looked it up online I thought “FTW” stood for “f___ the world!” I am now given to understand that it means “for the win.” Who knew.

I’ve got a brutal deadline today, so I’m going to continue my lazy video-clip-embedding ways with this YouTube clip of a …

One reason I know I’m not a true nerd is that a) I don’t think I’ve ever actually enjoyed a piece of machinima, and b) I don’t see the point of large orchestras performing music from video games. That said — and maybe I’ve said too much already — I’m going to “embed” below a couple of YouTube clips of videogame music performances that …

The Grand Theft Auto IV trailer is here.

So yeah: it’s set in New York City (here at Time we’re trained from birth, like Spartans, to add the word “City” after every mention of New York, capital C, to distinguish it from the State), and in the present day (there are some up-to-the-minute jokes in the billboards). Looks like we’ve got …