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• Seedbox vs Usenet: Why a Seedbox is a Waste of Money

  
  FileShareFreak — Authority: 121
  Before everyone throws their hands in the air screaming blasphemy for FSF denouncing seedbox usage, let it be known that FSF didn’t write this article. However, we thoroughly enjoyed it as it sheds much light on the validity of Usenet in comparison to BitTorrent/seedboxes, so we thought it be apropos to republish it ...
  18 hours ago

• A brief walk down memory lane

  
  Answer Starts With You — Authority: 118
  As I watched this video, I almost (okay, not really) came to tears thinking about all the hours (days) that I have lost spent playing some of these games.1972 Pong (Atari, Arcade)1980 Space Invaders (Atari, Atari 2600)1981 Pac-Man (Namco, Arcade)1981 Frogger (Konami, Atari 2600)1982 Donkey Kong (Nintendo, NES)1989 ...
  2 days ago

• Colin Douthwaite Logs Off

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  A posting last month to RISKS on the topic of posthumous emails brings to mind the story of Colin Douthwaite. Mr. Douthwaite, an active USENET user, passed away in March of 1999 after some prolonged medical difficulties . His son Ians farewell message to alt.ascii-art inspired a small flood of original memorial ...
  3 days ago

• ISPs Usenet crackdown had no effect

  
  P2P Blog — Authority: 417
  Last summer, a number of big ISPs discontinued their Usenet offerings as a response to an anti-child porn initiative led by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who had called Usenet a major source of child pornography . Time Warner completely gave up on offering Usenet to its customers and Sprint as well ...
  4 days ago

• Penis 2.0

  
  realblog — Authority: 91
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  5 days ago

• From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 466
  Tomorrow is the internets fortieth birthday. Its creators are even throwing it a birthday party at the University of California, Los Angeles, the origin of the first message ever transmitted over what we know today as "the internet," on October 29, 1969. If youre wondering what the first message ever transmitted ...
  1 week ago

• Review: Dogtooth (2009)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  DOGTOOTH  ("Kynodontas") Directed by: Giorgios Lanthimos Review by:  Tristán Harvey E. White Rating: (0 to *****):    **** (four stars) Greek cinema has never really "made it" on the world stage. This is extraordinary, considering its geographical location: an EU country, on the Mediterranean, and ...
  1 week ago

• Retrospective: La Chambre des Morts / Melodys Smile (2007)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  La Chambre des Morts / Melodys Smile (2007) Review by Kam-Hung Soh 2009 In the port city of Dunkirk, a young blind girl is kidnapped. When her father tries to pay the ransom, he is accidentally killed and two retrenched workers end up with the ransom money. Then another girl, a diabetic, is abducted. Without ...
  1 week ago

• Retrospective: These are the Damned (1963)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  These are the Damned (1963) Review by Kam-Hung Soh 2009 Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey), a retired American executive holidaying in the tourist town of Weymouth, meets and becomes attracted to a young local girl, Joan (Shirley Anne Field), much to the displeasure of her older brother, King (Oliver Reed). King, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: Worlds Greatest Dad (2009)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
                         WORLDS GREATEST DAD                 (a film review by Mark R. Leeper)      CAPSULE: Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait writes and directs      a surprisingly sharp and cynical story about success,      public image, and fame and is about both those who have     ...
  2 weeks ago

• So Long, Geocities!

  
  Wikinomics — Authority: 417
  Today is the end of an era. Yahoo! is finally pulling the plug on GeoCities , the staple web1.0 web page publishing service for the masses. Through a modern lens any given Geocities site was like an uglier even more misshapen custom MySpace profile, but in its day (long before ubiquitous, nearly-free, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: The White Ribbon (2009)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  THE WHITE RIBBON  ("Das weiße Band) Directed by: Michael Haneke Review by:  Tristán Harvey E. White Rating: (0 to *****):    *****  (five stars) Last night, London audiences were treated to the gala screening of the Palme dOr winner at Cannes this year, THE WHITE RIBBON, Michael Hanekes first film ...
  2 weeks ago

• Teotwawki Net: Distributed Discussion System You Control

  
  One Laptop Per Child News — Authority: 623
  What if you didnt need the Internet or a telephone system to communicate electronically with your friends? Imagine you could independently share electronic information with friends through wireless devices without external hardware or software. Think of how excited people get about checking in with friends using ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aging Netizen

  
  Down the Road — Authority: 113
  It occurred to me today that I’ve been using e-mail for almost a quarter century. That’s more than half my life. The lowly VT100 I first e-mailed at Rose-Hulman in 1985 on a VAX , using a VT100 terminal . My first e-mail was probably a request to an operator (what we now call a system administrator), but ...
  2 weeks ago

• Retrospective: Nickelodeon (1976)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  NICKELODEON (1976) Reviewed by Jerry Saravia RATING: Two stars "Nickelodeon" looks and feels like a warmed-over nostalgia piece. It is suffused with a sepia-toned glow and it reminds us of a different time and place when movies were just mere entertainments you could watch for a nickle. Peter Bogdanovich, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Retrospective: World Trade Center (2006)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  WORLD TRADE CENTER (2006) Reviewed by Jerry Saravia RATING: Three stars and a half Oliver Stone is known for his fire and brimstone approach to filmmaking where every point is made with a hammer yet loaded with an emotional ferocity. His best films ("Platoon," "Born on the 4th of July," "JFK," et al) pop ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: Burn After Reading (2008)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  BURN AFTER READING (2008) Reviewed by Jerry Saravia RATING: Three stars How do I review the Coens latest wacky comedy? Tough to say except that it is blazingly original and wacky and schizophrenic and, occasionally, hilarious and spectacularly uneven. You know, the usual brand of Coens humor. John ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: Labor Pains (2008)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  LABOR PAINS (2008) Reviewed by Jerry Saravia RATING: Two stars Lindsay Lohans career is on a definite slump. Rumor had it that she was considered for a role in a remake of "Rosemarys Baby"! That was quickly abolished in favor of a different kind of baby movie called "Labor Pains." Not the worst of its kind ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: The Visitor (2007)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  THE VISITOR (2007) Reviewed by Jerry Saravia RATING: Four stars Richard Jenkins is one of those character actors who appears and spices things up, and does it with a sly wink, an eyebrow lift  or a chuckle to get his point across, usually followed by a nonplussed, deadpan look. He has appeared in "Wolf," ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: Religulous (2008)

  
  FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News — Authority: 122
  RELIGULOUS (2008) Reviewed by Jerry Saravia RATING: Three stars Bill Maher is a radical leftist comedian who has taken his radical political views quite far on his vastly entertaining show, "Real Time with Bill Maher." Religion is a hot-button issue for him, mainly because he thinks it is silly for people ...
  2 weeks ago

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