Category: Entertainment

Ubisoft has opened the doors on a Web site preview of Myst IV: Revelation. The site does a pretty decent job of recreating the look and feel of the game itself and there are the usual puzzles to solve and mysteries to contemplate. The press release says there are also “exclusive bonuses to discover and collect.”

Looks like FCC has cleared the way for you to share your 10 Seasons of Tivo’d “Frazier” legally!

“The new technology would allow subscribers to download those broadcasts to their computers and then send copies of recorded shows to their offices, homes, or to different rooms within a home. A recording could also be sent to a few friends as long as they’re on the subscriber’s registered account.”

[Ed Note: This video is hysterical. I like how it sorta starts reasoanble and then progressively decays into complete technobabble. -Gareth]

For a number of years work has been proceeding in order to bring
perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not
only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase
detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing
cardinal grammeters. Check out this fascinating video on the topic. I think I need one for my data center.

The Simpsons’ Comic Book Guy sez: “Best Pre-Chapter 11 Appeal EVER!”

OPEN LETTER – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Alternative Comics needs your help!
Please buy our books from your local comic book
store to help Alternative Comics survive!

Dear Comics Fans:

I’m Jeff Mason making a direct appeal to you, our faithful readers, in a time of serious financial difficulty. If you could find a way to buy some of our books listed below, you would greatly help in our time of financial crisis. Please check off the books you want below and then buy these books from your favorite retailer. You can also use the checklist in the back of your copy of Alternative Comics #2 that was given out by your local comic book store on Free Comic Book Day. If your retailer does not stock our comics and books, they can use this form below as a way to order our in stock titles form any of our distributors.

Our pal Cory Doctorow’s novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom has just won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Congrats, Cory!

Cory writes on his e-list:
The Locus Award is based on a popular poll of readers of the trade mag, a larger group than even the Hugo voters, making it the largest beauty contest in the field. I couldn’t be any happier: thanks everyone! Hope to see you at the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston, where the award will be presented.

http://locusmag.com/

Xeni over at BoingBoing is co-curating an online “art” project called Sent. The project aims to “test the limits of creative possibilities” of phonecam moblogging. Celebrity “artists” are contributing, but nobody you’re likely to be impressed by. Unfortunately there seems to be no difference between the project and any other foto moblog. There’s not even an interactive ranking system or anything to let you see the best of the “amateur” contributions — just random flotsam from the sea of bad photography.

We love you Xeni, and we’re all for the idea of moblogging, but at some point you need to ask yourself if this project is a tad over-hyped. I would think that a red flag would’ve been raised as soon as you saw the phrase “Phonecams are changing the way we see the world, and our place within it” on the website? And can you really be deconstructivist if you’re sponsored by Motorola?

If you want to participate, you can send your pics to submit@sentonline.com from your cell or PC.

Robert Quine, famed rock/punk guitarist of the Voidoids, who played with the likes of Reed and Eno, is dead at age 61 from an apparent suicide. One of his albums was called Beyond Cyberpunk, though the connection between the artist and Street Tech is unknown (Gar, care to explain?). You can read the Times obit for more details of Quine’s impressive career.

When the EyeToy came out the only games one could play with it were the included mini-games which are fun, but get old quickly unless you’re playing with other folks. But a few new games are on the horizon that break from the dancing game trend that seemed like it would eat the EyeToy up. One is Saru Eye, scheduled to be released this summer in Japan. It seems to involve controlling an on-screen character rather than being the character in the game, which opens up a whole new genre for the EyeToy.

via IGN.

Burger King has found an odd way to promote it’s new “Chicken Your Way” campaign: it set up a chicken porn site. Subserviant Chicken shows a mock web cam porn site, with a chicken dressed in a rather racy outfit. Under the “live” pic is a command line where you can enter in your sickest chicken fantasies — as in, have your chicken your way — by enterring in commands like “show me your juicy thigh” or “shake it like a poloroid picture.” It’s amusing and yet nauseating at the same time. I feel unclean, and I certainly don’t feel like eating a chicken sandwich…

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