Archive for February, 2006

NBC Puts a Halt to Free SNL Marketing by YouTube

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Okay so who hasn’t seen the pretty cool Lazy Sunday video (aka Chronicles of Narnia Rap) produced by those comedy guys Lonely Island? It has essentially taken the net by storm (even professors were telling me about it), and has demonstrated the potential positive effects of the viral effects of the Internet.

Well, NBC just doesn’t [...]

Sony’s New Summer Job: Spam MySpace

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Attention all MySpace music fanatics. Here’s a link to your dream job, except that you’re not exactly going to get paid. Instead, you will have the coveted opportunity of getting college credit for spamming the social networks with your oh-so-objective views. And don’t worry—no chance of losing MySpace cred. You won’t even have to tell [...]

Cheney Tries to Shoot Bird and Shoots Human Instead

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Cheney lovingly accepts a gun from the NRA.

Looks like our Vice President has not had the best of luck on hunting expiditions lately.

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

Harry Whittington, 78, was ‘’alert and doing fine’’ after Cheney sprayed [...]

Google.com vs. Google.cn

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Well for those who haven’t heard about Google’s self-censorship policy for their brand new Chinese version, they can see it in action. When you do an image search for “Tiananmen” on Google.com, you get tons of images like this:

Yet when you do an image search for “Tiananmen” on Google.cn, it’s all happy families and pretty [...]

Getting Fired for Your Views on DRM

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

NYU undergrad student Inga Chernyak was recently fired from her job as a clerk at a NYC IP lawfirm for a Village Voice article detailing her crusade against DRM as the leader of NYU Free Culture. The firm, with Sony as one of its clients, felt that having Chernyak as an intern could potentially tarnish [...]

Fluffy Jumping Pets = Birds

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Paris-based video artists Pleix have made some pretty damn good films, as they call it en français, including this one where Vitalic’s Poney Part 1 is juxtaposed with fluffy jumping cats and dogs complete with neon accents. Talk about electropets…

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