omg: Hollywood secretly embraces the power of piracy

Viacom does, at least. It’s from a couple weeks back but I just discovered it, a post by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing about the lawsuit in which Viacom is suing Google “for $1 billion for not having copyright lawyers inspect all the videos that get uploaded to YouTube before they’re made live.” Here we … more…

Saturday cute: Bruce Campbell soups

Mmm, mmm, good: Via Sci Fi Wire, which has more flavors: Bisque o’ County Jr., Autolycus Cheese, Gumbo Ho-Tep. (Got a photo or image that’s adorable and at least vaguely pop-culture related? Found such a photo online? Send a link or an image, and I might post it!)

screencap Friday: what the flick? #130

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…

where have all the witty movies gone?

The British box office numbers for last weekend are in, and perhaps it would have been better if they’d remained unknown: the weekend was absolutely abysmal, down 66 percent from the same weekend last year. Get Him to the Greek was the top film, and the only new movie in the top 5 (in the … more…