Kodak Preparing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection

According to the Wall Street Journal, Kodak, that giant of all things film, is preparing for a potential Chapter 11 filing, should some plans to sell digital patents not pan out.

Wow. For a company that was once synonymous with photography, this is a sad day. Not that it’s entirely unexpected. According to the piece, [...]

Want. WANT! – The Persu Hybrid

A little bit about an amazing new vehicle, soon to launch in California, the Persu Hybrid. WANT! [...]

Twitter Vote Report: Ensuring Democracy, One Tweet At A Time!

Thanks to @KarinaLongworth for the heads up on Twitter Vote Report (TVR). A method of tracking how the vote is going across the country, as well as a way to report potential voter fraud, TVR is using hashtags (#______) to collect information about what’s going on around the country on election day and you can help even if you don’t use Twitter. [...]

Leaking TV Redux

Well, it turns out that the Bionic Woman pilot that’s floating around out there may just be the wrong one, in that sections of it have been re-cast or re-shot or both. Even if this turns out to be true, I loved what I saw and assuming they don’t all of a sudden turn her [...]

The New TV Season Leaks Onto The ‘Net

Ah, leaks! What would a journalist be without them? I believe that leaking TV shows on to the ‘Net may only serve to drive viewers to a show. So watch this space for some (always spoiler-free) thoughts on The Bionic Woman, Chuck, Pushing Daisies, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Californication, Reaper and the new season of Weeds. [...]

IMDB Is Very Odd

So you know the feature on IMDb that gives you recommendations based on what film you’re looking at? Well, some of these are really strange. While looking something up for a different story, I just looked at the page for Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and the recommendations were: Click World Trade Center The Notebook [...]

The Ottoman Fucking Goes Portugese….

The ottoman fucking saga goes intercontinental! [...]

Rohal/Osborne Keep Getting Bigger!

The latest honor for Messers Rohal and Osborn is: #53 – Most Viewed (This Week) – People & Blogs – All. They’re up to over 12,000 views only hours after Matt Dentler posted on their passing of the 8,000 mark. And then I find this pic. I love the Internet.

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Ottomangate 2007 Continues: Air Sex

Good god, make it stop! [...]

Pirates Embed: Marketing Genius Or Candy For Suckers?

A few days ago, David Poland posted about Disney’s launch of a Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End embed for blogs. “This is what you call owning the property and building a viral audience while making it easy for both the aggregators and the consumers. This is the future… I beg to differ. This is actually what you call giving Disney loads of free advertising. If this is really the future, it’s depressing as hell. [...]