Suzanne Cooper, it seems, is a big Omen fan.  So much so that she was gunning for about as many sixes in her newborn Damien’s birthing as possible.
Considering he was born at 6AM on 06/06/06 and came in at 6lb 6oz, if I had an award to give for most obsessive fan behaviour she’d take […]

The propaganda machine is working overtime with things like Second Life starting to take off.   Web Pro News caught this one off the job posting board where someone’s looking for a Second Life developer to create “games” to further social awareness.
In Second Life, I assume.
How long until we’ve got Orcish shills in World of […]

Something Dan over at Puritan City went off on got me thinking about the status of various contemporary media forms.
Not so much what his blurbicle is about, although that’s interesting too.  No… what I’m interested in is the statement about the grown-ups of media.
You see, since I started publishing way back in the halcyon days […]

Released under an attribution Creative Commons license, the blender created Elephant Dreams has been released as the first Open movie.
I see this going over big with content re-mixers. More comments once I’ve actually seen the product, until then, take a looksie. (orange.blender.org)
Linux and Open Source Blog » ‘Elephants Dream’ - World’s First Open […]

Basically, the French lawmakers have dropped all the provisions of the law that made it fair and left in all the provisions that make it utterly draconian.  I say we should skip all the dressing and go straight to corporal punishment for copyright infringment.
Who needs to imprison or execute rapists and murderers when there are […]

The American Gub’ment is continuing it’s war on porn.  Showing exactly how neutral ICANN is, they’ve forced the board to vote against the .xxx domain.  The rest of the world be damned, apparently.
If you didn’t know better, you’d be forgiven for thinking that porn is illegal in the States based on recent actions and onerous […]

MIT doesn’t have quite the spirit it used to in regards to rebelious behaviour.  Once upon a time, marking out the whole of the Harvard bridge in measures of a student didn’t ellicit much more than a chuckle.
These days, however, you can’t even hold up a sign protesting a speakers employer without being harrased.  Which […]

What is sexy?  Subjective?  A state of mind?
Whatever, apparently it’s not these women.   Charlie Wrigley lays it down for us in his first of a 5 parter on the Unsexiest Women in the World.  Full of celebrity and tongue in cheek commentary, it makes for a funny read.
After all, Boston *is* Funny, right?
Boston is […]

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is having it’s 25th annual Cherry Blossom Festival. If you’re a Northern New-Englander like me you might want to drop by an partake in the festivities.
Aside from tea and the usual Asian arts section, there’ll be a performance by Gaijin a Go-Go, whom are (I’m told) a Japanese pop act […]

So there are some people that are genuinely homeless and do society a service. Witness the guy outside Dan’s (Puritan City) T stop (fancy word for the Metro in Boston).
So he stands there all morning greeting people going on to the T. And sure, people give him coffee, donuts, what have you. […]