Year: 2005

I did a search for “creative commons” on neilgaiman.com and turned up this amusing anecdote: I think the first thing author Steve Brust ever said to me was “Let’s have an argument. Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light [my link -C]…

USA Today has published some excerpts from a recent Churchill Club panel on “What’s ahead for [the] Net [and] digital entertainment”. Here are my favorite quotes from the piece: “I want TiVo for BitTorrent.” — Roger McNamee “The search tools…

San Francisco sold out in less than an hour. After the success of last week’s Serenity screening, Universal decided to do it again– they added ten more theatres, doubling the number of venues, and scheduled the encore for Thursday, May…

In one of the most ballsy promotional ideas seen in ages, Joss Whedon and Universal decided to let fans in 10 US cities get a sneak preview of Serenity four months ahead of the pack. All the showings sold out…

———- Forwarded message ———-From: Rajesh Y. KrishnanDate: May 5, 2005 11:45 AMSubject: Do I lie? http://www.portlandmercury.com/2002-05-02/feature4.html

Not that I don’t appreciate you, dear reader, but I wish you’d tell more of your friends about my HotSheet and then post thoughtful commentary like the kind to which John Rogers responds in Kung Fu Monkey: Feedback & Criticism….

The original “Star Trek,” created by Gene Roddenberry, was, with a few exceptions, bad in every way that a science fiction television show could be bad… As science fiction, the series was trapped in the 1930s — a throwback to…

From Tom Norton‘s report on Home Entertainment 2005: Since most TVs and projectors today operate at a native rate of 720p (slightly different in the case of some flat panels), a 1080i high-definition source must be converted to 720p for…

I didn’t think it was all bad, it was just… ordinary. Minor spoilers below. The best thing in the new film version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the opening musical number: Earth’s dolphins singing “So Long, and Thanks…

Three hundred and six straws have broken the proverbial camel’s back. On Friday morning, a Belarussian spambot posted spammy comments to 306 of 351 entries on my blog, CKL’s HotSheet. This has happened in the past, but never on this…