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  • First Sony HD-DVD: Already late!

    Sony was preparing a worldwide launch of its first High Definition DVDs (on Blu-Ray discs) for the 23rd of May. They decided to move it into the future. For a good reason: “The majority of our retail base and hardware partners have requested that we reconsider this date to better coincide with the first commercially…

  • Books that will induce a mindfuck

    Books that will induce a mindfuck is a post on Everything2.com, and it gives a list of pretty interesting English books.

  • This Boring Headline Is Written for Google

    That is exactly the title of an article just published in the New York Times and explaining how online publication had to adapt itself to search engines, their literal-minded approach to text and the impossibility to use nice, intelligent, witty, humorous, sarcastic titles.

  • RIAA says “Jail the ghost!”

    Gertrude Walton is probably not the last person and certainly not the first to be facing the wrath of the RIAA while this association fights against music pirates. She is a bit unusual in the sense that she is an 80-year old Granny and stands accused of downloading 700 songs off peer-to-peer (P2P) networks under…

  • The best answer to the “What I’m doing with my life” question

    I plan on living forever. So far, so good.

  • First HD-DVD: I want action, more action!

    This is probably the shouts heard in the corridors of the marketing department at Universal Video when preparing the launch of HD-DVD. In the coming month, the first titles for high-definition DVD will be: Serenity: action and science fiction Doom: horror, action and science fiction Apollo 13: suspense and action Cinderella Man: boxing and love…