- I’d like to see some corroboration for this, but, if true, it does explain a lot about Hollywood’s way of thinking: MPAA to teachers: don’t rip DVDs, just record your television with a camcorder. What this does is effectively recommend piracy as a means of enforcing the DMCA. I suspect commenter TJ S is right: “They’re making it hard to do, because if it’s hard to do, then nobody will bother.” [via]
- Here’s a few things I’ve found strangely compelling recently:
- ToneMatrix [via]
- When the Bomb Goes Off — a collection of sometimes challenging micro-games
- Perhaps the the strangest way I’ve seen to play Super Mario Bros. yet. [via]
- The trailer for Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Lorenzo Lamas! Debbie Gibson! Mega shark and giant octopus! This may be the single greatest movie ever made!
- Wow, David E. Kelley’s new show must be really bad if NBC would rather pay a seven-figure penalty than air it.
- Keith Phipps raises an interesting question in his review of Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human:
Elvis, Carl Perkins, and Chuck Berry (and others, of course) started making rock ’n’ roll, and suddenly everyone had a guitar, some blues riffs, a pounding rhythm, and a song to sing. Why should it be any different with Jules Verne and H.G. Wells?
- And finally, Neil Gaiman on why, among other things, George R.R. Martin “is not your bitch.”