A bit late with this one, but the Hollywood Reporter has an interesting article on what went into the creation of the "machinima " piece used in Spike Lee's movie Inside Man. Although I'm not s...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/spike-lees-inside-man-machinima.shtml
The Associated Press reports (via The Globe & Mail) that Major League Gaming, the world's largest organized video gaming league, has signed a deal with USA Network tha will bring video game com...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/major-league-gaming-announces-deal.shtml
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt today defended the company's practice of self-censorship in its Chinese-language search engine, saying "we believe that the decision that we made to follow the law in Ch...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/google-defends-self-censorship-in.shtml
Disney is set to offer four TV shows, including "Lost" and "Alias" for free on ABC.com beginning in May, the AP reports (via The Globe & Mail). The shows will have ads that can't be skipped, unl...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/disney-to-offer-free-ad-supported-tv.shtml
According to Forrester Research , just 1% of online households in North America regularly use podcasts. Forrester's Charlene Li adds that "when you include all of the people who are just interest...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/forrester-report-1-use-podcasts.shtml
Mark Federman points to a report of an ambush that took place in World of Warcraft, where a funeral was being held for a player that had actually died in real life. Video of the event is here ....
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/online-funeral-ambushed.shtml
Will Wright is arguably the most influential person in video games. He's the creator of SimCity and The Sims, and his upcoming game, Spore, already has people tossing around phrases like "best ...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/will-wrights-gdc-keynote.shtml
Following up the last post, Joshua Ellis has just posted his excellent essay: Dark Miracle: Trinity, the Manhattan Project and the Birth of the Atomic Age . It's a must read. > There's an ol...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/joshua-ellis-trinity-essay.shtml
Erstwhile Mindjack contributor Joshua Ellis took a trip to the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico recently and has been blogging along the way. Now he's posted a great video he shot of Ed...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/ed-grothus-and-black-hole.shtml
What happens when the online edition of a newspaper is better than the print edition? Slate's Jack Shafer cancels his subscription .
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/new-york-times-vs-new-york-times.shtml
Apple has just released a beta version of a program called Boot Camp , which lets users of Intel-based Macs choose to boot either Mac OS X or Windows XP, BBC News reports . The software will be ...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/apple-lets-mac-users-run-windows.shtml
Danah Boyd was on The O'Reilly Factor last week discussing MySpace and has now posted the video on YouTube . It should be noted -- but wasn't by Mr. O'Reilly -- that MySpace is owned by News Cor...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/danah-boyd-on-oreilly-factor_04.shtml
A YouTube user going by the name Bowiechick sparked interest in Logitech webcams when a video she created with one was viewed over 300,000 times last month. But, as CNET News.com reports , she ...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/youtubes-bowiechick-influences-doesnt.shtml
GameDaily Biz reports that a Michigan judge has struck down a state law that tried to ban the sale of violent video games to minors, ruling that the law was unconstitutional and could not be imp...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/michigan-violent-video-games-law.shtml
Chevrolet recently launched a website where it lets visitors create their own advertisements for the new Chevy Tahoe SUV. But, as World Changing points out , there's nothing stopping anyone fro...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/04/chevy-gets-taste-of-culture-jamming.shtml
Gamasutra reports that a group of U.S. senators including Democrats Joseph Lieberman, Hillary Clinton ad Dick Durbin and Republicans Rick Santorum ad Sam Brownback have managed to convince a Se...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/03/us-senators-introduce-cdc-video-game.shtml
Google announced this week that they have named Well co-founder Larry Brilliant as director of Google.org , the company's philanthropic organization. According to Google, Google.org focuses on...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/02/well-co-founder-larry-brilliant-named.shtml
Author and Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig gave a talk in the virtual world of Second Life on Wednesday, Wagner James Au (a.k.a. Hamlet Linden) has the first part of the transcript up o...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2006/01/lessig-gives-virtual-talk.shtml
In the first part of a three-part feature, Mark Pesce and Angus Fraser propose a radical rethinking of a technology that remains as important as ever: the telephone. > A few weeks ago, jus...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2005/12/now-in-mindjack-telephone-repair.shtml
Via BoingBoing : The EFF has filed a class action lawsuit against Sony BMG over the company's DRM practices, specifically that recently used on a number of Sony music CDs. From the EFF press re...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2005/11/eff-brings-class-action-suit-against.shtml
Just in time for Halloween, Mindjack's film section has launched its first big special feature: VITAL HORROR: 20 MOVIES FOR THE STRONG-STOMACHED AND OPEN-MINDED .
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2005/10/mindjacks-vital-horror.shtml
I had a big long post written about this song, about the complexity I heard in the lyrics about activism and anger, and how I might be projecting all that, and about how the band seems to have k...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2005/10/loud-report-metric-monster-hospital.shtml
Tony Walsh brings up an interesting point in his post on the integration of the SIRIUS brand in the latest Tony Hawk Game. With so much advertising in games these days, why aren't they cheaper?
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2005/10/sirius-co-branding-in-latest-tony-hawk.shtml
You like Pinback , right? Course ya do. But sometimes, you secretly wish that they just... rocked a little more. Right? Don't blame you. Happily, despite its silly name and NSFW cover art , the l...
http://www.mindjack.com/relay/2005/10/loud-report-goblin-ck-stumped.shtml
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