Well, that’s utterly repugnant. As if Hurricane Katrina wasn’t a complete fiasco to begin with, it turns out over $1 billion absconded with by bogus claimants grabbing relief debit cards and spending the money on porno and holiday jaunts.
Should Hollywood be worried about Google’s growing encroachment into online video? According to an article on GigaOm, you bet they should.
And in a semi-related story, DVD sales are slowing down and Hollywood is scrambling to come up with something new. Uhhhh…..downloads? Just a thought, Big Media.
Screechy Democratic blogger Daily KOS just held a conference, YearlyKOS, for his many fellow bloggers and readers. The mainstream media was there, and their take ranged from defensive to “don’t get too high on yourself there, Yelly Yellerson.”
The writer and director of Superman Returns spills the beans to AICN about just how cool this film is going to be.
at least, the best one involving Gnarls Barkley performing “Crazy”…in full Star Wars costumes. I particularly like the Imperial officer horn section and Chewbacca on the drums.
Sounds like a recipe for OMGGOLDBBQ to me. 🙂
Cnet is runing a speculative article about Apple possibly buying out Nintendo. Sounds pretty nuts to me, Cringley-level madness, but then so did the big switch to Intel chips. Apple buying Nintendo makes sense for a number of reasons….both companies prize innovation, build iconic hardware, and have several intellectual properties that garner fierce loyalty. On the other hand, it’s probably all a bunch of hooey on a slow news day.
The Atlantic has an in-depth examination of the short and violent life of our favorite recently deceased terrorist, while the NYT shows how even though Zarqawi is dead, a network of jihadist web sites marches on.
So Abu Musab Al_Zarqawi was killed this morning, most likely by a targeted air-strike. But even perenially deluded U.S. president George W. Bush had to admit this doesn’t mean the fighting in Iraq is by any means over.
Businessweek profiles the real money being made inside Second Life, a virtual world that rivals World of Warcraft for the number of people piddling around in its pixels. The Escapist also has a couple of articles that are WoW related, one about the rise of Blizzard from an obscure games publisher to the dominant force in online gaming, and another on what cames after World of Warcraft.