Microsoft is now gunning straight for your clucky/cute genes. Goddamn, if that’s not a dirty trick…
Abusing the Cute
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Your Voice Now Copyright’d
Authors’ Guild claims copyright on a computer reading a book out loud through text-to-speech:
“They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.”
What the fug? I hope the cognitive dissonance in this guy’s head didn’t stop him from reading to his kids. If he has any.
Kindle 2 Released
Jaydiohead
Jaydiohead – Jay-Z meets Radiohead – Minty Fresh Beats: Something about Jay-Z must make him infinitely mixable, because this is one helluva mix, slotting right in alongside The Grey Album and the Linkin Park crossover of a few years ago.
Movie Review: In Bruges
In Bruges: Dark-as-pitch comedy about a couple of hitmen (Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson) who are banished to Bruges, an historic town in Belgium, by their boss (Ralph Finnes) to lay low after a botched hit. A few good laughs and a great performance from Farrell, but there’s little enough redemption for any of the characters. This movie is definitely not one for the queasy. ★★★☆
Inauguration Song
The Presidents of the United States of America – (Obama is) Moving In. The Presidents are still rocking it :)
Atheist message denied in Australia
An Australian advertising company, APN Outdoor, refuses to run advertising for atheists, similar to those run overseas, such as the prominent one in London. Absolutely disgusting, blatant religiousism in a supposedly free and forward thinking country.
The MacBook Wheel
Apple announces the MacBook Wheel: it’s the ultimate iPod-MacBook crossover. The keyboard is dead, long live the wheel.
Bousoku Racers
Whatever you’ve done to your car, you will be outdone by these Japanese cars. My favourite? The exhausts that empty directly into the ozone layer. (via kahiti)
Consumerism
All I want (and this and these and this and this funky thing and this and these ingenius things and this awesome mug and this and this clever thing and this beautiful thing and this ) for Christmas… is a lot of money.