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Posted by usr.c on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 (7:40 AM) |
 I can't remember when it was that I last posted something here, well, actually I can; it was December 2007, but after reading a bizarre article this morning I couldn't help but share it. I was reading slashdot as I do every morning when I came across a /film article about a German guy called Uwe Boll who had announced that he'd stop making movies if one million people asked him to.
Naturally, I asked myself: who on earth is Uwe Boll? It turns out he's the director responsible for game-to-movie adaptations such as House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne and a few others, which according to the IMDB are among the less than successful movies the worldwide film industry has produced. But I've not seen them, so I won't judge the guy, and besides that's not the reason for making this post.
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Posted by Mario on Monday, March 10, 2008 (9:32 PM) |
 From the LA Times: "The new headquarters of one of the world's most popular websites is 3,000 square feet of rented space furnished with desks and chairs bought on the cheap from EBay and Craigslist.
A sheet of printer paper taped to the door says the office belongs to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, the online almanac of anything and everything that users want to chronicle, from Thomas Aquinas to Zorba the Greek.
With about 300 million page views a day, the site by some estimates could be worth many hundreds of millions of dollars if it sold advertising space. It doesn't. Wikipedia's business plan is, basically, to hold out a tin cup whenever it runs low on funds, which is very often."
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I think it might be time to get the front-page news going again after a very long hiatus. One of the stories this past week has been that a company called Man & Machines has decided to sue Apple for trademark infringement. As it turns out, Man & Machines is claiming that it has been using the name "Mighty Mouse" for their line of mice a whole year before Apple started selling theirs. Why it's taken them so long to realize this is anyone's guess. Maybe they're going through a rough time and are in dire need of some cash. Who knows.
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