Today is the 60th anniversary of The 228 Incident in which protests by native Taiwanese on this date in 1947 led to the wholesale execution of Taiwanese leaders by Chiang Kai-shek’s forces who occupied Taiwan after Japan’s defeat in World War II. According to TaiwanDC.Org, in addition to those outright killed, Thousands of others were…
February, 2007
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DigitalTrends.Com reports that DLO is finally shipping its HomeDock Deluxe dock for the iPod. The HomeDock Deluxe features nice-looking menus and screens on your television that make it easy to navigate and play movies and music stored on your iPod. I’ve got the first HomeDock that DLO came out with a couple years ago and…
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Sci-fi genius and all-around asshole Harlan Ellison has filed a lawsuit against Fantagraphics for, among other things, daring to publish a book that on its cover correctly claims that the book itself contains an interview with Ellison. Ellison also is absurdly suing Fantagraphics for libel based on a couple anecdotes mentioned in a Fantagraphics book…
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In this past weekend’s NYT Sunday Book Review, J.D. Biersdorfer reviewed Jennifer Ouellette’s The Physics of the Buffyverse. Biersdorfer’s review is generally positive, The book does not delve too deeply, but biology, electricity, cryogenics, string theory, temporal anomalies, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Schrödinger’s cat and thermodynamics are all touched on in the context of “Buffy†and…
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Action-Figure.Com reports on Mezco’s upcoming line action figures based on The Goonies, including a 12″ Sloth. Awesome — even more amazing than that time that Chunk saved those old people from that nursing home fire, right?
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I have no idea if George Lucas really said that “The Empire Strikes Back” was the worst Star Wars film. If he really believes that, clearly he hasn’t seen the last three films (which wouldn’t be surprising since they border on unwatchable). What continues to fascinate me is how many people believe that Darth Vader…
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MSNBC reports on a fascinating study that, as the headline writer puts it, confirms that “meetings make us dumber.” The study showed participants a soft drink brand and asked them to brainstorm for alternative brands. What they found was the that people asked to perform the task by themselves performed significantly better than people who…
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Vox Imperium is a multi-player Civilization-like game that is played entirely within the browser,
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After Apple upgraded the firmware of the video iPod to display video at up to 640×480, I’ve been using it to view all of my video files and DVDs. There’s just one problem — iTunes sucks, especially after you get to the point where you have tens of thousands of music and video files. I…
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Western Digital’s My Book World Edition II is a 1 TB Network Attached Storage Drive that includes 10/100/1000 connectivity. These things are very common these days, but the $499 suggested retail price for this device is very nice. You’ll pay a lot more than that for a Buffalo’s 750gb Linkstation II Pro. Initial reviews seem…