Looks like the Chinese .gov is planning even tougher regulations on internet use for the mainland.
They want to control all forms of communication. What they plan to do with this is anyone’s guess… it doesn’t really seem necessary to prop up the dictatorship and definatley pisses off the populace.
So. Looks like we’ll have […]

Now, this is just a suggestion. But I think Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB needs some sort of “persuasion device” to deal with congress.  Either that or we need to replace her with someone with the IQ of a turnip that won’t actually take their job seriously, but will stoicly dissemble to the congress […]

Whichever senate sub comittee this article concerns is filled with easily led fools.  They appear to be under the same disconnect from reality that occurs in think tanks sponsored by large corporations.
Not only are they not aware in this hearing as to what they’re discussing, they blatently lie about the Rockstars GTA and it’s “hot […]

While I’ll wholeheartedly agree that there are some games which are far to violent for my viewing pleasure I won’t go so refer to them as “speech”.
They’re not.
Nor will I gladly watch Congress critters dictate morals.  I’m perfectly capable of not buying a game on my own, without any regulation, thank  you very much.
But apparently […]

Even though free software (in the freedom-to-modify-and-distribute sense) comes along with all the tools and utliities anyone would need to modify or distribute their own version of it, it’s apparently not “African” enough for this company.
I think the author misses the valuable point that free software doesn’t have boundries (as hackneyed as that is to […]

Lead thinker Eugene Kaspersky over at  Kaspersky Labs has decided to raise the ever ready specter of the poor getting uppity.
We can’t send over end of life PCs to third world countries, he warns, because they’ll put them to nefarious ends like virus writing!
Not too much of the scare monger, eh?  Bet he even made […]

Now doesn’t that make you feel good about pumping up Apple’s revenue?  They’re all about the warm fuzzy hippie artists.  And the slave like labor force that produces product for them.
Macworld UK - Inside Apple’s iPod factories

Someone told me that the face of new media was here. Gone are the old, trite, boring days of finite production and mass consumption, the push model.
Ushering in this new era of small run media are the darlings of personal distribution, Google Media and YouTube. Of course, if Google’s new “hits” list is […]

This mornings study was to look for the recent history of comic books.
You know you read them. Be it the overly trite heroics of Superman, the angst ridden Spiderman (aka Peter Parker), some of the more anatomically incorrect women in comics (Top Cow may have pioneered the artform…), humouros yet homicidal JTHM (produce, Vasquez, produce!), […]

Crypto (a friend) showed me an excellent WoW Dragostea Din Tea (aka Numa Numa) choreography. Produced by the fine human directors over at the WoW Film Actors Guild (used to be filmactorsguild.tk) the choreographed bits they pull off in the confines of a commercial game are pretty astounding. If you’re wmv non-able (like […]