Monty Python Fights Pirates With Legal YouTube Clips (3)
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Monty Python has launched an official YouTube channel, serving up high-quality clips of the British comedy troupe's popular skits. The group took a crack at widespread illegal uploading of its copyright-protected clips in a notice posted Friday to the new Monty Python Channel. "For three years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube," the tongue-in-cheek notice rants. "We know who you are, we ...
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A Monty Python channel on YouTube? Totally awesome.
Twitterpillar or FailWorm? Moan Cone or Groan Cone? (16)
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When a colorful caterpillar and his wisecracking ice cream cone sidekick show up to inform Twitter users of a service disruption, a contest to name the new characters is born.
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ZOMG no fail whale...this changes everything.
Bootleg Star Trek Trailer Shows Young Kirk, Spock (11)
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Youthful incarnations of James T. Kirk and Spock are just two of the revelations in the new trailer for J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie. The trailer, attached to this weekend's Quantum of Solace opening, shows plenty of warp-speed action as it introduces the characters in the Trek prequel. If you didn't see the new Bond flick, you can still see the Trek teaser: A bootleg version of the trailer (embedded) is available on YouTube. ...
Second Life 'Affair' Leads to Real-World Divorce (3)
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A fling with a virtual hooker in Second Life is grounds for divorce, according to an upset U.K. woman. Amy Taylor, 28, is divorcing her husband after allegedly catching him engaging in virtual sexwith a prostitute in the simulated world, according to British paper Western Morning News. In court papers, Taylor says she caught her 40-year-old husband, David Pollard, twice with other "women" in Second Life. Linden Lab's virtual world lets players create unique avatars ...
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See the Rest of the Watchmen Character Posters (1)
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We showed you the Ozymandias artwork last night. Here are the rest of the new promo posters for the Watchmen movie, which opens nationwide March 6, 2009. Take a look at the images below and let us know: How do you like the look of director Zack Snyder's characters? (Click the images to see larger versions.) The Comedian, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Rorschach, played by Jackie Earle Haley. Nite-Owl, played by Stephen McHattie. Silk ...
Early Storyboards Show Evolution of Star Wars Universe (1)
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A collection of early Star Wars storyboards that reveal the visual evolution of the movies has popped up on Flickr. From the look of the films' famous scrolling openers to TIE fighters over the Death Star, the black-and-white drawings offer a peek at the original vision that informed the Star Wars universe. Flickr user Michael Heilemann, who posted the gallery (see screenshot), said he got the images from the Star Wars fan club's Hyperspace Insider. ...
First Look: 3-D Monsters vs. Aliens (9)
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Facing an alien invasion? Spring some lovable, '50s-style monsters to battle the extraterrestrial menace. That's the premise behind Monsters vs. Aliens, the 3-D animated comedy that's coming from DreamWorks early next year. Directed by Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon, the movie pits four-eyed alien villain Gallaxhar (voiced by the always hilarious Rainn Wilson) against a military that's so desperate it releases a handful of monsters to defend Earth. Vintage sci-fi and horror B-movies provided the ...
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//Facing an alien invasion? Spring some lovable, '50s-style monsters to battle the extraterrestrial menace. That's the premise behind Monsters vs. Aliens, the 3-D animated comedy that's coming from DreamWorks early next year.//
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Dark Knight Fan Cooks Up 'Audacity of Joke'] (4)
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A Dark Knight fan mashed two of this year's most-copied visuals to create a cool Election Day image. James Lillis subbed an image of Heath Ledger's Joker into artist Shepard Fairey's "Hope" poster for Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. Lillis calls the resulting image "The Audacity of Joke." The inspiration was definitely Dark Knight, not the 2008 presidential election, Lillis said in an e-mail interview. "I don't get inspired by elections," he said. "Democracy is ...
Review: 'Zack and Miri' Scores With Funny Porno Farce (6)
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Star Trek Spat: Shatner Calls Takei's Wedding Snub 'Sad' (1)
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Actor William Shatner theorizes that former Star Trek bridge mate George Takei is suffering from some kind of psychosis, as evidenced by a recent high-profile snub. Takei, who played Sulu in the original Trek series four decades ago, famously did not invite Shatner to his recent wedding ceremony. Takei married his longtime partner Brad Altman last month. "The whole thing makes me feel badly," Shatner says in a video blog post titled "Shatner on Sulu ...
Battlestar Galactica Gets a Finale Date (2)
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The final episodes of riveting sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica will begin airing Jan. 16, 2009, according to Sci Fi Channel. Presumably the second half of Season 4 will pick up where the first half's shocking cliffhanger left off. The season, and the series, will end March 20, according to the press release. Presumably we'll know who (or what) the final Cylon is by then. That won't be the end for Galactica fans, though. A post-season ...
New Yorker vs. Xkcd in 'Cartoon-Off' (2)
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Farley Katz, who writes (and draws) for The New Yorker's Cartoon Lounge blog, recently challenged Xkcd's Randall Munroe to a "cartoon-off." The two cartoonists agreed to draw four geeky things: the internet (as envisioned by the elderly), string theory, 1999 and "your favorite animal eating your favorite food." The results -- including Munroe's vision of 1999 (screenshot pictured), done in the style of his ritually hilarious webcomic -- are pretty funny. See them all, and ...
Banksy's Bizarre 'Pet Store' Flames Factory Farming (1)
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Swimming fish sticks, self-dipping chicken nuggets and a makeup-wearing robo-rabbit are just a few of the crazy critters in street artist Banksy's new installation in Manhattan. Called The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, the fake pet store opened Wednesday in a small New York City storefront. It's a groundbreaking work for the graffiti artist, according to art group Wooster Collective. "This is the first time that Banksy has used animatronics, and the effect is ...
Japanese Monkey Serves Drinks, Kicks at Karate (1)
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A Japanese monkey that waits tables and practices karate is getting his 15 minutes of fame thanks to YouTube. Videos of the 12-year-old macaque, named Yat-chan, show him delivering bottles of sake and beer to customers at a restaurant in northern Tokyo. Several such clips, including TV news reports and raw footage of the monkey in action, have surfaced on the video site. "Yat-chan first learned by just watching me working in the restaurant. It ...
Gallery: Emoticons Jump From Web to Real World :-) (1)
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: Photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical smiley faces to mark jokes and clear up confusion about writers' intentions. With his simple proposal, the emoticon was born. Fahlman's smiling shorthand (and its frown-face equivalent) started a wave of internet expression that's spilled over into the real world. The emoticon ...
Nerd Up: Hellboy II's Monster Madness (1)
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By Scott Brown and Brian Raftery Each week during the summer movie season, Wired writers and movie nerds Scott Brown and Brian Raftery fire up their instant-messaging clients and do a tag-team critique of a new flick. Sort of like Siskel and Ebert, but geekier and funnier. Like Statler and Waldorf but, you know, non-Muppet. This week, Brown (Statler76) and Raftery (Waldorf75) have a devilishly good time digging into Hellboy II: The Golden Army. (Read ...
