Today, Rolling Stone is reporting that the Foo Fighters are suing Marvel Entertainment, First Serve International, Toonz Animation in India and First Serve Toonz for copyright infringement. According to the article: The band alleges that Marvel used “substantial excerpts” of their songs “Best of You” and “Free Me” as the music for the trailer of…
Twelve years ago today, as part of the 24 Hours In Cyberspace event, Bill Clinton signed into law the Telecommuncations Act of 1996. A section of the bill came to be known as the Communications Decency Act, which imposed criminal sanctions on anyone who: knowingly (A) uses an interactive computer service to send to a…
Today in 1996, the largest one-day online event (to that date) occurred, called "24 Hours in Cyberspace." The professional photographers, editors and programmers who participated in the event aimed to to create a "digital time capsule of online life," explained Rick Smolan, a photographer who headed the event. Participants photographed, edited and collected images of…
A heads-up: I’ve gotten a lot of emails in the past 24 hours purporting to be links to Hallmark holiday e-cards– they aren’t, they’re links to some sort of overseas malware site. Be careful out there.
A number of people have come here from Peter David’s beloved weblog — specifically that neat bar on the right sidebar that he has that lists our headlines. And a number of folks have said, "Hey! I have a weblog! Can I get that fancy feed of yours on my weblog?" Absolutely. Just grab it…
On this day in 1969, the first ever computer-to-computer link was estapblished on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. It was developed by a U.S. Governmental team called DARPA, which sounds just a little too close for comfort to the plotline on Lost. But it actually stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Nope, that’s…
One of the more disturbing yet oddly challenging drinking games around comes to us from Home on the Strange, pictured here. The game is called "Celebrity Sex Hunt" and the rules are simple: One person names a celebrity. If the other player or players can find any slash fiction or Photoshopped porn associated with that…
Quoting directly from Warren’s Bad Signal blast: "THE ENGINE will close a little before midnight UK time on August 31 2007. The first year was about getting creators together and facilitating conversations that didn’t have anywhere else to go. The second year was about just providing people with an interesting place to talk. Two years…
It’s not all that surprising, but still shocking when you see it spelled out: Americans now spend roughly half of their spare time online during a typical weekday, according to the Netpop I Play report from Media-Screen, and more than half of this time is spent on entertainment and communications activities. Forty-eight percent of young…
As a follow up to our earlier story, the original website where we got a look at Heath Ledger as the Joker, http://ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com has been torn apart, and the only thing that remains is an error that comes up and says "Page Not Found". Pretty standard, right? Think again! Just for kicks, check out the…
Comic books aren’t the only media who are having bad times with circulation drops. Comic strips are feeling pinched too, perhaps even more, as many of the large metro newspapers across the country are experiencing significant circulation drops, according to the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Circulation at The New York Times…
Cancel those plane tickets to China. Despite what we just said, Reuters reports that all the Chinese bootlegs of Spider-Man 3 are fakes, they’re all copies of Spider-Man 2. "Contrary to news reports about stolen copies of ‘Spider-Man 3’ being sold illegally on the streets in China, our investigation in China has revealed no case…
