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Stargate Universe Second Half of Season 1 Trailer

This looks absolutely awesome…

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Bono Goes after ISPs

Bono Goes after ISPs

Bono apparently has a new mission in life. Not content with defeating the scourge debt in Africa and avoiding taxes in his home country, the musician turned saviour is now going to rescue the music industry by (effectively) criminalising the entire world. Yep that’s right. The poor oppressed multi-millionaire is shocked by “rich service providers” making “swollen profits that perfectly mimic the losses of the music industry”. His solution, track everything on the internet, comparing the struggle to the fight against child pornography and calling it “Reverse Robin Hooding” (Isn’t that robbing from the poor to give to the rich – and isn’t that the music industry’s current modus operandi ?)

I never cease to be amazed that the entertainment industry feels that they somehow have the moral authority to justify throwing away every civil liberty to protect “artists” (cough, bullshit, cough) – and by artists I mean corporate profits – when the things they want, monitoring people, guilty by accusation, cutting off internet access etc would all be considered unwarranted and too harsh for such minor crimes as terrorism, child pornography, murder, racism and hate crimes…. but if someone should download a song from the internet, well, then, all bets are off. I mean, modernising your industry to take advantage of current technology, trends and customer demands, that would be the real crime. That and not showing complete and utter discontent for your customers. Heaven forbid.

He makes you so proud to be irish (not). I guess red is the colour of hypocrisy.

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Evolution of the Cylons

Awesome poster

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Blu-ray Titles Outsell DVD Counterparts on Amazon

From High-Def Digest:

As a spokesman from Amazon says, Blu-ray was indeed huge. “As evidenced in our top-seller lists, Blu-ray format is very popular with our customers and several of our top-selling titles are selling more in Blu-ray than standard format.”

It was only a matter of time. I’d love to know how this compares to sale of download titles. I suspect they don’t even come close.
[Read Blu-ray Titles Outsell DVD Counterparts on Amazon | High-Def Digest]

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Hands on Handbrake

Macworld’s Jonathan Seff takes the new (and much improved) handbrake 0.9.4 for a spin

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Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody

Awesome

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Handbrake Updated

Handbrake, the venerable dvd ripping software has been updated, and according to the release notes the release is quite substantial. Notable improvements include a 64bit version, speed improvements and quality improvements. They’ve also cleaned out a lot of defunct code and functionality.

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Lucky Escape

This took place in a Boston Subway station when an inebriated woman fell onto the tracks. That was one incredibly lucky escape.

[Via Boing Boing]

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