Posted in Technology on Jun 18th, 2008
Kinsee Morlan Made a great post today on lastblogonearth.com
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It’s been some time since I heard actual chatter about a computer virus. This latest one, the one you get from downloading a picture file from MSN messenger, is a bad one. I stupidly subjected my laptop to it the other night while chatting with a friend. He sent me a picture and I […]
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Posted in Music, Technology, Pop Culture, Film on Apr 29th, 2008
Anders Wright Blogged something interesting today on lastblogonearth.com
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So, I’m going on a pop-culture binge today. This morning, after dropping my daughter at pre-school, I swung by Target to pick up a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, which comes out today and which is expected to sell something like six million copies this week. Say what you want about videogames (I’m talking to you, Kelly Davis) and the Grand Theft Auto franchise in general, but at $60 a pop, that would make for the greatest opening of any entertainment product, ever. The game has gotten ridiculously good reviews. In fact, while I was at Target, I ran into three other guys buying the same thing. They were all in their 20s or 30s, and many colors of the rainbows were represented. That’s cool.
So I’m going to explore this for a little while, and then tonight I’m taking in a press screening of Iron Man, which opens […]
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Posted in Technology, Sex on Mar 31st, 2008
Kelly Davis Wrote an interesting post today on lastblogonearth.com
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An article I’m working on took me to a website called the “Family Watchdog” that, among other things, allows you to create a customized “sex offender” e-mail alert:
Do you have any registered offenders near you today? No? Great. But could they move in tomorrow? Sure. How will you know?
Let Family […]
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Posted in Local News, Technology on Mar 10th, 2008
Kinsee Morlan Did an interesting post today on lastblogonearth.com
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Robert Graham saw a future much like the one envisioned by Mike Judge in Idiocracy. He set up a secret sperm bank in Escondido and only took sperm donations from qualified geniuses, mostly because he was obsessed with the idea of society’s eminent degradation due to unchecked breeding. There’s more information on the Best Free […]
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Posted in Technology on Jan 30th, 2008
Kelly Davis Made an interesting post today on lastblogonearth.com
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Today (Jan. 30) is International Delete Your MySpace Account day. Please, do as the day commands—because, really, your MySpace page:
1.) Is ugly
2.) Has lame music playing in the background
3.) Lacks any sort of intuitive design schematic
4.) Will get you fired once your boss/significant other/students’ parents see that photo of you from that party last week
5.) Is a poor substitute for actual human interaction
6.) Will never compensate for your shitty high-school experience, no matter how many “friends” you make
Go ahead. Delete it. Then move over to Facebook and get rid of that one, too.
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Posted in Technology, Pop Culture, Film on Jan 18th, 2008
Anders Wright Posted something interesting today on lastblogonearth.com
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How to put this? Well, if Juno was the first real movie for the bloggers, Cloverfield is the first movie for the YouTubers.
But wait, you say. The Blair Witch Project did the same thing, with the handheld camera and the motion sickness and all the other trappings. Sure, but the makers of Blair Witch used a clever device because they had no money, and then worked that shit online. Now it’s almost 10 years later (believe it or not). We actually watch video on our computers, all the time. Cloverfield taps into that and makes the complete POV film, teaming a considerable budget with the wily smarts of J.J. Abrams and the standard monster movie concept and turns the dial up to 11. It’s Blair Witch meets YouTube meets Godzilla meets Tremors meets Lost. If you’re a fan of the genre, your time has come. Your stomach may turn but […]
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Posted in Technology, Pop Culture, Gaming on Dec 18th, 2007
Todd Kroviak Blogged something interesting today on lastblogonearth.com
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One of my closest friends is a video game addict. I’ve tried to intervene by telling him denial is the first sign, but after playing his latest obsession, I fear that I will soon be shaking uncontrollably at all hours of the night from my own gaming withdrawal.
Rock Band is the name of the game, and playing it feels like shooting heroin while eating a triple bacon cheeseburger and having sex with the girl of your dreams at the same time. OK, maybe it doesn’t feel that good, but I can’t recall another video game experience that was so immediately compelling and accessible.
If you’ve played Guitar Hero, then you get the idea–popular songs play from your Xbox 360 while you fiddle with a guitar shaped controller, strumming and tapping in unison as a scrolling display on the screen instructs you which buttons to push. However, Rock Band takes the concept to the next level, adding a mock drumset and microphone, with the option of an […]
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Posted in Technology, Pop Culture, Gaming on Dec 18th, 2007
Todd Kroviak Did an interesting post today on lastblogonearth.com
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One of my closest friends is a video game addict. I’ve tried to intervene by telling him denial is the first sign, but after playing his latest obsession, I fear that I will soon be shaking uncontrollably at all hours of the night from my own gaming withdrawal.
Rock Band is the name of the game, and playing it feels like shooting heroin while eating a triple bacon cheeseburger and having sex with the girl of your dreams at the same time. OK, maybe it doesn’t feel that good, but I can’t recall another video game experience that was so immediately compelling and accessible.
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Posted in Technology, Arts & Culture on Dec 17th, 2007
Kinsee Morlan Wrote an interesting post today on lastblogonearth.com
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Posted in Technology, Pop Culture, Film on Oct 16th, 2007
Anders Wright Did an interesting post today on lastblogonearth.com
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The red band trailer isn’t new, but you used to only see them in front of seriously rated-R movies. Basically, it’s a trailer that is intended only for audiences 17 and up. One thing that’s happened recently, though, is that the studios are cutting more red-band trailers—named so for the red “restricted” band that appears before the trailer itself—and putting them online. We started to see the phenomenon earlier in the year, mostly with comedies—Knocked Up had a red-band trailer, and so did Superbad, both for language, naturally. But in recent months, the trailers are getting the band for the violence in them. Here are a few of the trailers I’ve bumped into in recent months (Beowulf has an intense one I haven’t seen yet). You may need to verify your age before viewing, and I should say at the outset that none of them are for the squeamish. (more…)
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