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November 25, 2008

Hulu for film geeks? Criterion Collection launches new streaming-video "online cinemateque"!
By Carly Carioli

Spoiler alert: if you're a film geek, the rest of your work day is about to go up in flames.
Criterion launched a long-awaited new web site this morning, taking the first step towards digital distribution for the most coveted catalogue in film. Warning: It's still in wicked beta. But the plan is to let users stream full-length movies -- as well as Criterion's extras, from the accompanying essays to the directors' commentaries, behind-the-scenes vids, and short features -- on demand.

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Internet, video, Criterion

April 24, 2008

Garfield Minus Garfield
By Will Spitz
And speaking of not detoxing, here's more shizzle from the Interwebs. Garfield Minus Garfield is exactly how it sounds: the lonely, depressing tale of John Arbuckle or, as the GMG mastermind puts it: "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?" A sampling:

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artsy fartsy, Freak show, Internet

April 24, 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV hits the internet, Microsoft investigating
By Ryan Stewart

So a pirated copy of the PAL (Australia, New Zealand, and the EU) version of Grand Theft Auto IV - in part, the subject of the cover story of this week's Phoenix - hit the internet last night. Presumably, someone leaked an advance review copy (don't look at us, we haven't even gotten it yet.)

But here's the thing: the people who are playing it illegally - some of them, at least - are not too smart.

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Internet, leaks, Pirates

March 31, 2008

The Stupidest Bike Lane
By Will Spitz
Last week, Slate's video editor Andy Bowers posted a video of his self-nominated "Stupidest Bike Lane in America," a lane in Western Los Angeles that runs a mere 275 feet before disappearing suddenly and completely amidst busy LA traffic - sort of a "Fuck off" to bikers from LA road officials. The video:

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film, i love my bike, In poor taste

March 11, 2008

Spitzer Fire
By Clif Garboden
Who is more ridiculous: the jerk or the jerks who report on him?
By now, everybody knows that reform-minded/law-and-order-spouting New York governor Eliot Spitzer has been implicated in a major call-girl ring bust. (Pun-lovers, don't go there.)

This is sad for his voters, supporters, and family, of course, but given things that are really wrong in the world, we'd rank this particular non-event substantially below, say, African genocide and (only because Spitzer is an elected official) a half-step above Britney's shopping list.

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Internet, Lame Politicians

March 03, 2008

The Plus Side of Being a Model?
By Sharon Steel

I'm delighted that the Telegraph decided to feature Crystal Renn, an extraordinarily successful plus-size model, in a feature today. But here's what I don't get. This is how writer Judy Rumbold opens her piece:

To be honest, I expected Crystal Renn to be bigger. All right then, fatter. In the mind's eye, the term 'plus-size model' is liberally coated in doughnut batter, and I had her down as a gloriously buxom woman-mountain.

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beat downs, Fashion, Gimme a break

February 12, 2008

Like Hope, Only Different: Comedians for McCain
By Carly Carioli

On the off chance you're one of the three people who hasn't seen the original, the above will be much funnier after you watch this.

One thing we're gonna miss about the Hollywood writers' strike: dudes are gonna have less time on their hands for stuff like this. We only wish Mitt had dropped out a week later, if only so we coulda heard Fred Armisen warble "I saw my dad march with MLK."

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Politics, Barack Obama, Celebrity

February 08, 2008

Daily Street Art: Skelewags and some famous musicians in Cambridge
By Caitlin E. Curran
In Boston (Cambridge): Stenciled-on musicians are brightening those bleak, concrete walls

Awesome pics by sushiesque, who also captured a heartbroken Loch Ness monster. We miss Elliott and Kurt too, Nessy.

Not in Boston (???): Christine Autturio, my artsy, in-the-know co-worker, pointed out Skelewags, the crafty, Tim Burton-referencing street art currently decorating sewers and other unappealing city locations, by an artist called Chewy, on conceptart.

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music, artsy fartsy, Awesomeness

January 18, 2008

Photo Friday
By Caitlin E. Curran
I recently discovered that the Library of Congress has a Flickr page, and I can't stop looking at it. Srsly. I need to be banned, or I'm never going get anything else done. Here are a few of the best flicks - visit the actual page if you like, but don't say I didn't warn you.

The coloring on this one is amazing:

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artsy fartsy, Awesomeness, Internet

December 20, 2007

Oh crap (Spears content).
By Carly Carioli

Ellee spread the word over on Slop earlier (complete with a fantastically crafted illustration - Ellee, you are a Photoshop genius), but Pat Lyons*, over at the NYT's Lede blog, considers a entirely different aspect to the story:

"The father of the child is variously reported to be 18 or 19 years of age, and she is 16.

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Bald Britney, breaking the law, Celebrity

November 13, 2007

Searching for Hidden Treasure in Gloucester
By Ian Sands

This past Saturday, I visited Gloucester, Massachusetts. While there, I didn’t duck into the Cape Ann Historical museum, didn’t check out the docks where the fishermen hang or any quant little art galleries. Instead, I searched with my friend for about 2.5 hours in the cold, armed with a little yellow and black GPS device, for a hidden treasure.

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Awesomeness, choose your own adventure, Internet

October 23, 2007

OiNK shut down!
By Ryan Stewart

Hot on the heels of the news that TV Links UK was shut down over the weekend comes word that OiNK, the torrent site on which hundreds of thousands of people were downloading albums ranging from the classics to stuff that won't even be released for about another six months, was shut down by English and Dutch police forces, who also arrested the site's 24-year-old proprietor

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music, Internet, leaks

October 22, 2007

TV Links operator arrested, Site shut down
By Ian Sands

It's Saturday, October 20th. Like most days that follow Friday, you plan to spend this one gathering up all of your sweets in the house and plopping down in front of the computer for a half day of TV, courtesy of the UK-based website TV Links. Complacent and happy, you press the necessary keys that would normally take you to the free goodness.

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Internet, Old News, Television

September 25, 2007

YouTube videos to air with ads in 2008
By Ryan Stewart
I guess we all should have seen this coming: YouTube is sticking ads on to its videos next year.

On the surface, it seems like this might bring the site's popularity down a shade, but then again, Google has a history of creativity when it comes to this stuff. Who knows. Maybe this stab at legitimacy will incite more companies to open their video vaults.

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Clips, Gimme a break, Internet

September 07, 2007

UPDATE: VANESSA ANNE HUDGENS ISN'T FIRED (YET)
By Sharon Steel

Vanessa Anne Hudgens is naked on the interweb. Also, I told you so.

UPDATE: Holy f-bomb! Disney actually canned her.
UPDATE Part II: Disney denies it. Although, clearly, they're not thrilled with 'Nessa right now.

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Celebrity, Internet, Things we expected to see

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