Category: Kulture

Whats going on in Japan, 1st hand account April 17th 2011

One American college professors video log, of what is really happening in radio-active japan.

Vintage Ads

Vintage Ad Browser aims to collect vintage advertisements from a variety of sources, including comic books, CD-Roms, websites, APIs, your submissions, book, magazine & comic book scans, and more.

2011 is the year of the Comic Book Movie

Hollywood is churning out plethora of movies adapted from comic books this year. The entertainment machine is in full swing releasing the following movies starting in May.

In Defense of a Nationalist

Back in the 1980’s amidst the cold war, it was patriotic to love your country, and every day millions of school children would say the pledge of allegiance. Communists where bad, and illegal aliens where arrested for violating national borders.

Pirate Bay asked to Keep up Torrent

The founder of the small software company Coding Robots found out that one of his applications had been cracked and shared on The Pirate Bay. Instead of asking The Pirate Bay to remove the torrent,He sent a ‘Notice of Ridiculous Activity’ because the crack didn’t live up to his expectations.

NBC’s Heros is canceled

NBC in yet another brilliant show lineup decided to remove Heroes from its prime time line up. The shows shortened season was given the heads up to wrap up the show.

The Masocast

The Masocast is a New York City-based sexuality podcast that features interviews with people who identify as kinky. Not remotely safe for work —Link

Arizona’s Anti-Immigration Bill in a word “Awesome”

Democratic leaders such as speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi who called the bill “Misguided and irresponsible” while she represents the sanctuary city of San Francisco.

Southpark Creators threatened

On April 14th, Comedy Central aired the 200th episode of Southpark, the “image” of Mohammad was displayed, first as a voice coming from inside a moving truck, next as a big block that says “censored” and finally inside a bear costume.

Arizona becomes third state to allow concealed weapons without a permit

Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do ya? Arizona has passed a law allowing everyone inside the state the right to arm themselves with a gun (say .44 magnum ) and carry it in their purse, under a shirt, belt, what ever and its perfectly legal.

Meet the woman banned from every bar in the U.K.

20 year-old Laura Hall has been issued with a Drinking Banning Order (Booze Asbos)  which forbids her from entering any bar, club, or place where alcohol is served.

Breakfast Cereal Character Guide

Breakfast cereals have mascots, cute sometimes even eerie cartoons designed to sell children their goods along with some half cent plastic toy. Complete guide here —Link

Buyer gets sued for negitive eBay comment

A shopper of the popular online garage sale eBay is being sued for $15,000 for posting negative comments on eBay about a man who sold him a broken clock.

Piracy losses greatly exaggerated says U.S. Gov

The finical losses reported by organizations such as the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) , The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)The claim is being lost due to piracy and copyright infringement according to this pdf by the U.S. Governments Accounting Office (GAO)

Stars Wars Burlesque

Heh, and the Nerds rule.

 

Tweet Museum

Celebrities tweet’s Illustrated by Odessa Begay.  —Link