Archive for October, 2007
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
fetchblogDirector- John McNaughton
Release Date- 24 September 1986
Synopsis: The New Yorker - This low-budget independent feature, originally made for the home-video market, has a stark, relentless quality that is sometimes mistaken for art. Like Leonard Kastle’s “The Honeymoon Killers” (1970), it’s a deliberately flat, affectless treatment of gruesome true-crime material. (It’s loosely based on the criminal [...]
RIAA’s Message Won’t Stop File-Sharing
fetchblogA Minnesota woman’s $220,000 fine for illegally downloading music files is expected to set a precedent for other recording industry lawsuits, a music lawyer suggests.
By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
The jury’s guilty verdict this week in a file-sharing trial could deter others from pushing back against the [...]
Did you see the movie Titanic? Im sorry…
fetchblogToday I caught my roommate watching some super hyped show about the Titanic on the Discovery Channel. It was about some diving team that blew all sorts of time and effort into making a deep sea diving robot that could take high-resolution pictures of the Titanic. Booooring… Who cares? This one scored a [...]
Is Google the Next Baidu?
fetchblogMotley Fool News October 4, 2007- When Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) went public two years ago, investors warmed quickly to the story of Baidu as being China’s Google (Nasdaq: GOOG). And why not? Baidu is the high-margin search-engine leader in the world’s most populous nation. Shares have rocketed more than tenfold since its $27-per-share [...]
Woman gets owned in first File Sharing Case!
fetchblogFirst Trial in Copyright Claims Over Music Downloads on File-Sharing Networks Begins in Minn.
ABC News - In the first lawsuit over file sharing to make it to court, a jury ordered a woman who record labels claimed illegally shared songs to pay the labels $222,000.
The lawsuit, filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, the [...]
Internet Poker Brought to Life
fetchblogThe Hollywood Park Casino in California is planning to start construction next week for a new ePoker room that will use touch screen computer screens on a poker table rather than using dealers and real chips. To use the ePoker table, players will have a card pre-loaded with money that they insert at the table [...]
Thinking about learning the Clarinet?
fetchblogSo my girlfriend plays the flute. I have been thinking lately on how I can show her up because I cannot for the life of me, find anything wrong with her. So lately I bought a cheap clarinet (900 Dollars) because I am not planning on going any further than just showing her [...]
Bottomless Lake Poker
fetchblogThe third annual “Bottomless Bubblefest” celebration over Labor Day weekend at Bottomless Lakes State Park in New Mexico will feature an underwater poker game as the highlight of the weekend this year. The event attracts scuba club divers from throughout New Mexico and West Texas, among others. Lea Lake, known by local divers as the [...]
