Hey kids, guess what? AOL is entering a new market—that of movie downloads. (Oh wait, they already tried this over two years ago.) Priced at $10-$20 each, no capability to burn to DVD, and Windows Media DRM, it’s sure to be a hit. (Oh wait, that won’t even work on your iPod.)**

First, when will [...]

Steal this film is a short documentary examining the impact of file sharing on the media industry, and the political movement that has grown out of p2p. Part one is out (streaming: Part 1a, Part 1b; torrents: iPod version, Regular version) and has some great interviews with people from the Pirate Bay, Pirat Byran, [...]

In a recent Forbes article entitled “Don’t Marry Career Women,” you’d probably think it was more likely to come from The Onion:

Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a career.

Why? Because if many social [...]

Slashdot is running an article on the campaign to get rid of the caps lock key. Caps off, as the group is called, assures us that the world would be a far better place with a much more useful key in that position.

Hey, I’m all for it. When was the last time you purposefully used [...]

Most people have never heard of the Mangosteen. Mango..wha?, they ask. Or they think it’s just a mini-mango.

Well, wrong. After having lived in Southeast Asia for a considerable amount of time, this came to be one of my favorite fruits. It’s hard to compare its taste to something available here, but it has a fairly [...]

Okay, I know some of you love the Snakes on a Plane meme kind of thing, but do these cats really look like Hitler?! Or do I/they/we just have nothing better to do?!