Antinous, one of the moderators of the comment threads over at Boing! Boing! has finally surpassed Teresa Nielsen Hayden in his moderation skills. I am in awe after running across an exchange between Antinous and a user going by the handle “Harveyboing.” Good old Harvey made the mistake of posting a comment critical of a…
November, 2008
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Mattel’s collector-oriented webstore, MattyCollector.com, is currently selling action figure stands for Justice League Unlimited and DC Universe Classics figures. Those JLU figures are especially a pain in the ass to display, so this is a nice addition. Both are available in 25-packs for $12 plus shipping.
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Best one yet.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Boston College has decided to stop offering students e-mail accounts beginning next year. Instead they have set up an e-mail forwarding system, so each student is assigned a Boston College alias that then forwards to whatever personal e-mail system the students are using. Some of the comments reflect…
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The Cato Institute recently published Timothy B. Lee’s thorough examination of proposals to regulate ISPs to ensure “network neutrality.” Lee persuasively argues that doing so would be a mistake that would likely have long-term unintended consequences. Lee’s argument against network neutrality is two-pronged. First, he argues that proponents of network neutrality laws/regulations vastly overestimate both…
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So early this morning my XBOX 360 downloaded and installed the NXE update which overhauls the visual interface for the XBOX as well as adds Netflix streaming to the device (rather than having to use third party software). The XBOX interface is, for the most part, a vast improvement. The original XBOX interface was extremely…
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Teleread notes that PC Magazine will no longer exist as a print publication, though its website will continue on. I’ve always thought PC Magazine exhibited utter incompetence — how else to explain the continued feature spot that the clueless John Dvorak continued to get in the magazine right up until the end. But don’t take…
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Tomorrow, Microsoft pushes out an update to the XBOX 360 that, among other things, allows Netflix subscribers to watch streamed videos from that service on the XBOX. And today — purely by coincidence – all Columbia Pictures movies and TV shows are blocked from being streamed to the XBOX. Columbia Pictures, of course, is owned…
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Last month when I was trying to decide between getting an XBOX 360 and a PS3, I was tempted to go with the PS3 because of Little Big Planet. Thank goodness I didn’t make that mistake. It turns out Sony held out the promise of user generated content only to bring down the ban hammer…
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Last month, it was reported that The CW had committed to a pilot of “The Graysons” — that’s right, a live-action television drama that would have explored the life of Dick Grayson before becoming Robin. The show is now definitely off, though not for the obvious reason — that it certainly would have sucked —…