Category Archives: News

Poor Hollywood!  How Will They Ever Afford to Make Starsky & Hutch 2?

Posted on February 21 2004 by Mickey

    Stand by for (more) news! Judge Susan Illston of U.S. District Court in San Francisco has ruled 321 Studios must stop selling its DVDXCopy software within one week!    According to a Reuters article, “The Motion Picture Association, … Continue reading →

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Somebody messes with me, I’m gonna mess with him, and then chances are he’ll probably mess with me again…

Posted on February 19 2004 by Mickey

    Yeah, it’s just another countersuit against the RIAA’s lawsuits, but I just like the sound of this particular one. According to C|Net News: It’s probably not the first time that record company executives have been likened to Al … Continue reading →

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Around the Web

Posted on February 17 2004 by Mickey

    I’m bored. Too bored to even form sentences. Here are links.    • From the Toronto Sun: 17-year-old surfing the web discovered his mother abducted him fourteen years ago.    • First the BBC criticizes UK government, then … Continue reading →

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Lord of the Rings II: Their First Assignment

Posted on February 16 2004 by Mickey

    I read an interesting article today from the Wall Street Journal (reprinted in our local paper, the Detroit Free Press). Unfortunately one has to subscribe to the WSJ to read the online version, so I am unable to … Continue reading →

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Mac Attack

Posted on February 12 2004 by Mickey

    Now that Virginia Tech has switched to Xserve, they’re selling off the 1,100 G5s which had formerly been their supercomputer. These 2GB dual-processor Power Macs, with 1GB of RAM and 160GB of hard drive space, are going for … Continue reading →

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Daily Chat

Posted on February 12 2004 by Mickey

    Once again I am late to the party. A couple weeks ago Stephen Colbert, from The Daily Show, participated in a wry online chat with the Washington Post.    (Link found via Steven Rubio’s Online Life.)    And … Continue reading →

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Beans Around the World

Posted on February 12 2004 by Mickey

    As its webmaster says, Beans Around the World “started out as a simple joke” but “has developed into an international quest for world peace, love, tourism, and the promotion of high-protein vegetable food groups.” Perhaps the humble black … Continue reading →

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Dial 22824-22*

Posted on February 10 2004 by Mickey

    To enfore New York’s cell phone ban, an assemblyman wants to set up a hotline to turn lawbreakers in. As described in Tech Live‘s report:“It’s illegal in New York state to use a cellphone while driving, but studies … Continue reading →

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How to Improve Detroit?  Photoshop it!

Posted on February 10 2004 by Mickey

    Today’s Free Press has a front-page article on how Detroit representatives were in Houston last weekend to show off plans for our city’s hosting of Super Bowl XL in 2006. To make Detroit more inviting they doctored a … Continue reading →

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Congratulations PJ!

Posted on February 8 2004 by Mickey

    Peter Jackson received the Directors Guild Award last night! The One Ring.net has a set of images from the ceremony here. This and Barrie Osborne’s Producers Guild Award last month should bode well for Return of the King‘s … Continue reading →

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