6 month ago
Greg Storey : Universal Studios is on fire. - King Kong has been damaged but the film vaults remain intact. This has happened before.
deusx : Huge fire burns at Universal Studios - Life- msnbc.com - "Officials say the iconic courthouse square from "Back to the Future," has been destroyed, and the famous clocktower that enabled star Michael J. Fox's character to time travel has been damaged. "
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12 month ago
deusx : HijiNKS ENSUE a geek webcomic - updated monday and thursday » Blog Archive » Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel - "Our kids will laugh when we’re 60 and we don’t know which button turns on the garbage disposal and which one vents plasma from the starboard nacelles."
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13 month ago
nelson : Wolfram's huge ego - 20 year old student proves a 2,3 Turing machine is universal; Wolfram's blog post uses the word "I" 2,3 times in each sentence
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : Dinosaurs with Jetpacks. at Shots Ring Out - This was my read too. Universal's DRM-free experiment is mostly an attack on Apple's success with the iTunes Music Store. [via] #
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17 month ago
plasticbag : Universal have decided not to continue with iTunes under the same terms and will now only use it to sell artists 'at will'. - Apparently it's a response to Apple moving away from DRM and it's a bad move. Strategically, even if you thought DRM was perfect, it would now be time to give up on music as a lost battle and concentrate on video.
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20 month ago
nelson : Universal Studios spoof - hysterical video from the South Park guys
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47 month ago
plasticbag : Together in electric dreams: statistical analysis used to determine hit songs - "From unsigned acts dreaming in their garage, to multinationals such as Sony and Universal, everyone is clandestinely using a new and controversial technology to gain an edge on their competitors."
ricmac : Very interesting Guardian article about pop music hit prediction software - "...the record biz, once that bastion of wayward creative flair, is succumbing to the plain old-fashioned science of statistical analysis."
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