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Fleshlight for iPad Makes Virtual Sex a Little Too Virtual
Friday, 20th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Offbeat
Tags: fleshlight, ipad, NSFW, porn, pron, sex
In the spirit of this week’s porn industry announcement that studios might be packing up their dildos and moving out of town (all as a result of state govt. enforcing mandatory condom laws), the following could prove either good or bad for them: someone has gone to the trouble to create an iPad equipped with a fleshlight-holding case.
The fleshlight is even strategically positioned underneath it and therefore making it quite convenient for you to, uh, take care of yourself while you watch your porn.
As an aside: This is not a real product, yet — and it’s not endoresed by the makers of Fleshlight…though I’d be hard pressed to think that since you’re already f*cking a flashlight, they’d probably be fine with taking it one step more forward. Including f*cking an iPad. Keep Reading
Man Caught Stealing $9.5 Million Worth of Source Code From Federal Reserve Bank
Friday, 20th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: $9.5 million, Bo Zhang, FBI, Federal Reserve Bank, GWA, source code, stolen, theft
With the federal government shutting down file-sharing website MegaUpload, and Anonymous taking down the Department of Justice website in response, some have passed over claims that Federal Reserve Bank source code used for managing the US government’s finances has been stolen this week.
According to a report from VentureBeat who points us to an official FBI statement, a computer programmer named Bo Zhang, 32, has admitted to copying the code to a hard drive from within the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Wednesday. Keep Reading
SOPA Officially Pronounced Dead
Friday, 20th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Pop Culture
Tags: killed, lamar smith, politics, SOPA
Congressman Lamar Smith, the man dubiously labeled as the creator and sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act, announced friday that SOPA, in its current form, has been pulled from the table.
“I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy,” Smith (R-Texas) said. “It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products.”
If you yell loud enough, you’re bound to get someone to hear you Keep Reading
D.C. Comics: A Logo Full of Awesome!
Friday, 20th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Pop Culture
Tags: brand, comics, DC Comics, dc logo, entertainment
This past week’s unveiling of D.C.’s brand new logo seems to have pissed off quite a few people. Some argue it’s the logo itself that sucks, but perhaps their P.R. department could use some work as well.
What it perhaps comes down to is that D.C. Comics seems to have been dismissiveto fans as of late.
Last year, for example, when the re-launch of Starfire prompted an outcry on the behalf of longtime fans — including a concerned mother looking out for her comic-reading kid Keep Reading
It’s Official: George Lucas is Retiring…Sort Of
Thursday, 19th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive
Tags: American Graffiti, George Lucas, Mookie, Red Hook Summer, Red Tails, retire, retiring, Spike Lee, THX-1138
On Tuesday George Lucas officially dropped the bomb that lots and lots of people have probably been hoping he would eventually drop — even the in-denial, don’t-think-about-the-prequels/Ewoks/Jar-Jar crowd. (Which might be all of us.)
In an interview with The New York Times writer Bryan Curtis, Lucas stated:
“I’m retiring…I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.”
Rick McCallum, the man who’s stood beside Lucas Keep Reading
Reinventing The Textbook: Apple Takes On Education with Interactive Textbooks for iPad
Thursday, 19th January 2012Posted in Apple, Blog Archive
Tags: education, iauthor, ibookstore, ipad
Apple made their biggest push into education in recent years this morning during a press event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. The focus of the event was two main initiatives including: Reinventing textbooks with the iBooks 2.0 app, and reinventing the way we create textbooks with the “iBooks Author” e-book creation tool.
It’s clear that Apple is betting that the success of its App Store model translates over to education. After downloading the updated iBooks app, users will now have access to a textbooks category selling content rich, interactive textbooks from major publishers such as Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All those publishers are making a selection of their most popular high school textbooks available initially, some of which sell for up to $75 normally, through the iBookstore for just $14.99 or less. Keep Reading
‘League For Gamers’ Gains Support AGAINST SOPA and PIPA
Thursday, 19th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: indie games, league for gamers, lfg, night owl games, PIPA, SOPA
Yesterday we announced that the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) support for SOPA has spun off a new ‘League for Gamers’, aiming to give the gaming community a voice in Washington, D.C.
Today we received notice that Night Owl Games, a Texas based gaming company best known for the Dungeon Overlord strategy game, is joining the cause: Keep Reading
Federal Government Shuts Down File-Sharing Web-Site
Thursday, 19th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tis the season for sites pirating content, or at the very least sites that COULD be accused of pirating content, to be on high alert (in other words every site on the internet).
For those of you residing outside of the file sharing community, MegaUpload.com is one of the largest media file sharing sites on the net, and is now being accused of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content.
According to the AP, MegaUpload posted this statement denying many of the allegations that it facilitated breaching copyright laws: Keep Reading
Will the SOPA/PIPA Boycotts Do Any Good?
Thursday, 19th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive
Tags: act, beat, city, companies, games, legislation, movies, online, PIPA, piracy, SOPA
Although cries of protest and anger proved enough to quell the threat of Stop Online Piracy Act, it seems that its evil twin PIPA (or Stop Online Piracy Act) is causing just as much of a firestorm of controversy.
While it’s a bit too soon to tell if this particular piece of legislation will get shelved in similar fashion, it could stand to reason that if and several other sites follow suit, the government might have something to think about. So yeah, take that oppressive Orwellian-esque legislation! Will it take 700,000 tweets and over a million emails do the trick and end it all, much the way it did with SOPA? And as the San Diego City Beat newspaper insists, it will ‘compromise the planet’s digital security and open the doors for China-class censorship.’ Keep Reading
Mass Effect 3 for Xbox 360 Gets Kinect Voice Commands, Demo Lands Feb. 14
Thursday, 19th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Technology
Tags: Aaryn Flynn, bioware, commands, demo, Feb 14, kinect, Mass Effect 3, motion, recognition, voice, XBOx 360
If you’re anticipating Mass Effect 3 like just about everybody else, you may or may not be excited to learn the latest trailer focuses mainly on the RPG’s Kinect integration.
Normally when we think of the Kinect’s motion gestures in any genre of hardcore shooter the vision of PlayStation’s Kevin Butler using his hand as a gun is the first thing that comes to mind.
Fortunately, the Kinect-enabled Mass Effect 3 Keep Reading
How Should You Really Feel About Booth Babes?
Thursday, 19th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming, Keeping it Real
Tags: BBC, booth babes, ces, degrading, models, scantily-clad, show, tech, women, xbox
You may not be surprised to see “booth babes” in this BBC report from the show floor at CES 2012. However, the report doesn’t just show off the women, but instead the BBC’s Matt Danzico went to CES to find out how females working in the tech industry feel about booth babes.
The report starts out interviewing various female technology writers including Molly McHugh of Digital Trends who says “it’s sending this message of what my sex is here to do… I’d rather be learning about the products”. McHugh says the booth babes’ presence at the shows is “uncomfortable” but in her opinion not degrading. Keep Reading
Will ‘Expendables 2′ Be PG-13 Because of Chuck Norris’ Demands?
Wednesday, 18th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive
Tags: chuck norris, expendables, profanity, stallone
In an interview with Chuck Norris over at Arrow in the Head, the 71 year old star of Delta Force 2 and uber right-wing neocon, revealed that he was basically the next best thing to the action film Antichrist. Specifically:
“In Expendables 2, there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn’t be able to watch this. But I don’t play in movies like this. Due to that I said I won’t be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased. Producers accepted my conditions and the movie will be classified in the category of PG-13.”
Got that, guys? Not only is Chuck Norris going to be responsible for Keep Reading
‘If I Die’ Lets You Keep Posting To Facebook After You Die
Wednesday, 18th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Social Media
Tags: app, death, die, Facebook, If I Die, posthumously, suicide, update
Have you ever wondered what will happen to your Facebook account when you die? Unless your friends or family specifically request Facebook remove your profile, it will most likely stay up and become a memorial of sorts for your loved ones to share memories. However, a new app offers to give you control of your Facebook updates and posts…after you die.
If I Die is a new Facebook app that lets you set status updates and posts that will be published to your Facebook account after your death. The promo video for the app suggests a “bid farewell, a favorite joke, a long kept secret, an old score you wanted to settle, or even some valuable advice”. Keep Reading
Original Doom Finds Its Way Back To Xbox Live For $5
Wednesday, 18th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: $5, bethesda, doom, download, FPS, id software, microsoft, XBLA, xbox, Zenimax
If you were crushed the day you found out classic FPS Doom was pulled from Xbox Live Arcade a few months back, you’ll be happy to know the title is now once again available for download.
In case you never stuck around to get an answer as to why it was pulled, according to Joystiq “expiring rights” following Zenimax acquiring Id Software originally lead to its removal from XBLA. Zenimax promised then that Bethesda would be re-releasing the title and it looks like today that it exactly what has happened. Keep Reading
[GRAPHIC] What the Online World Looks Like “Blacked Out” By SOPA
Wednesday, 18th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Pop Culture
Tags: blackout, online, SOPA
It’s no secret that today’s internet blackout is unprecedented in the history of the internet, albeit still a fraction of what Y2K was supposed to represent.
Today’s blackout symbolizes more than solidarity between some of the internet’s most popular sites, it points out just how many of our everyday activities revolve around the same sites. How many of us have gone to our favorite web portals out of habit only to remember that they fail to exist today, forcing us to crawl back to Facebook or potentially worse, productivity? Keep Reading
SOPA Controversy Creates ‘League For Gamers’, Seeks to Become the ‘NRA for Gaming Industry’
Wednesday, 18th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gaming
Tags: controversy, entertainment software administration, esa, league for gamers, lfg, PIPA, SOPA
They’re dubbing themselves the “League For Gamers” and they have one goal in mind: to combat the Entertainment Sofware Administration’s (ESA) support of the controversial SOPA and PIPA acts of legislation.
For those of you not privy to the ESA, it is comprised of the biggest video game and computer software companies on the face of the planet, and perhaps most notably is responsible for owning and operating the E3 Convention.
But ESA has most recently been fitted with the dubious distinction of being an organization in “support of SOPA and PIPA”. Here is their official statement on the matter: Keep Reading
Awesome (Yet Awkward): Hello Kitty Jet is Designed to Raise Cervical Cancer Awareness
Wednesday, 18th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Offbeat
Tags: Anime, cancer, caricatured, cervical cancer, hello kitty, Hellosmile, just, Tokyo FM
Don’t get me wrong — on no level is raising cervical cancer awareness a negative or an ‘awkward’ thing — so really I should just tout the awesomeness of the following:
In conjunction with Japan Airlines and Tokyo FM Broadcasting, Sanrio — the company responsible for all things Hello Kitty — unleashed a custom designed special jet, dedicated to everyone’s favorite caricatured feline.
But this wasn’t just any Hello Kitty Jet. It also featured a special PSA on its side — according to Mitsuaki Suzuki, director of Japan Society of OBGYNs Keep Reading
Thermaltake and Designworks USA Team Up For Level 10 M Gaming Mouse
Wednesday, 18th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gadgets, Gaming
Tags: adjustable, BMW, Designworks USA, gaming, Level 10 M, mouse, PC, pro-gamer, Thermaltake, ventilation
This isn’t the first time that PC case and accessory maker Thermaltake and BMW subsidiary Designworks USA have teamed up on a new product designed specifically for gamers. The new Level 10 M gaming mouse announced by the two companies today is an unconventional design created with the pro gamer in mind. You might be familiar with the popular Level 10 PC case the companies unveiled back in 2009.
As you can see in the images, the Level 10 M mouse has a hollowed out body that Keep Reading
Is The Razer Fiona Project the Next Big Thing in the Console World?
Tuesday, 17th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gadgets, Gaming, Technology
Tags: ces, console, mobile gaming, Razer Fiona Project, skyrim, tablet
The Razer Project Fiona is generating some unprecedented hype for a gaming console. Much of that is due to it not being a traditional gaming console — it’s a tablet.
But it isn’t so much about the hype as it is the hi-res video we have of someone actually playing the game on ultra-high settings. Quite simply put, it looks unlike anything we’ve ever seen before (dare we say at first glance a bit awkward).
Its pros, according to several CES attendees, outweigh the cons — largely because of the sidebar controllers, eliminating the need for a touchscreen with tablet gaming Keep Reading
Scam Artists Switch iPads for Clay Slabs At Best Buy
Tuesday, 17th January 2012Posted in Apple, Blog Archive, Now I've Seen Everything
Tags: artist, best buy, Canada, clay, ctv, fake, future, ipad, scam, shop, video
According to a report from Canadian broadcaster CTV, around ten unlucky shoppers at Best Buy and Future Shop locations in Vancouver have purchased fake iPads made out of clay. The devices were apparently purchased by scam artists who replaced the iPads with bags of modelling clay before resealing and returning them to the stores for unsuspecting customers to buy later.
Mark Sandhu thought he had bought a $620 iPad 2 for his wife, Sundeep, for Christmas. Instead they both got Keep Reading
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