February, 2009

  1. Spider-Man The Musical Goes Full Steam Ahead

    I’ve written before about the Broadway musical version of Spider-Man, and this awful awful project apparently continues full speed ahead — those so interested can now buy tickets for the 2010 debut of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. According to a Marvel press release, Drawing from over 40 years of Marvel comic books for inspiration,…

  2. Free True Marble Downloadable Global Dataset

    Unearthed Outdoors offers a free download of its True Marble global dataset. The catch is that the free download is of the 250m set, which is relatively low resolution — though for many more casual uses this is still relatively high resolution. Especially since the 15m high resolution image goes for $25,000 for the whole…

  3. The Copyright Status of Robert E. Howard’s Works

    If you want to understand just how complicated it is to determine whether or not a work is still copyrighted in the United States, check out Paul Herman’s analysis of the copyright status of works by Robert E. Howard who died in 1936 but had many works published posthumously (in some cases, several decades after…

  4. Jungle Disk to Support Cloud Files

    Jungle Disk started life as a way to backup local files to Amazon’s S3 — I use it to backup the 300gb or so of personal data on my local system and it works great. The company behind the software was recently acquired by Rackspace so in its next release, Jungle Disk will add support…

  5. WoW Character Display Plugin for WordPress

    There are a number of WordPress plugins that are designed to pull character data from the WoWArmory, but WoW Character Display is head-and-shoulders above the rest. The main advantage it has is that it caches the armory data, so after its pulled once it only gets refreshed every X minutes, with the administrator able to…