BitTorrent Inventor: My Goal Is To Kill Off TV.
BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen dreams small. Minuscule. All he endeavors to do is to kill off television. As an aside, imagine being the guy or gal who created BiTorrent? Like a boss.
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Video: ‘Super Mario World’ Lowest Score Ever Run.
Fuck speed runs! Fuck high-score runs! This is the new-new black. Duder here scores the lowest score ever in Super Mario World, and of course he’s captured his impressive banality on the YouTube. It’s pretty intense.
Hit the jump for the video and the particulars.
WSJ: Apple Testing An 8-Inch iPad. See, Size Isn’t Everything.
Rendar has a co-worker who also works at one of those mall-based Apple Cults who recently told him who told me who is now telling you that he thought Apple may be working on a smaller-sized iPad. This probably isn’t news to anyone who is more in-tune with the Webz than me, but it whatever! Rendar’s friend may be correct.
Movie Adaptation of Richard K. Morgan’s ‘Altered Carbon’ Getting Fast-Tracked. Gulp.
Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon is one of my favorite books. Ever. The spiritual successor to Neuromancer with a whole lot more fucking, it milked my cyberpunk glands with capable hands. I’ve known that it was getting a movie adaptation for a while now (Morgan actually sold the rights to the book for $1 million, which enabled him to become a full-time writer. Good for him, man) but now its getting fast-tracked.
Mario Propaganda Posters Prove You Can’t Keep A Good Bowser Down.
Fernando Reza has dropped some new propaganda posters, complimenting last year’s rallying cry for the Mushroom Kindgom. This time? He’s all about the war efforts from Bowser’s point of view. They’re gorgeous.
Hit the jump to check them out.
Matt Groening Donates $500,000 For UCLA Chair Of Animation. Rad.
Here’s one to file under the “Paying it Forward” category. Matt Groening has dropped a cool half-a-million on UCLA to help them fund a creation of a Chair of Animation. What exactly does that entails?
Glad you asked!
Video: Sci-Fi Comedy Short Film ‘Cost of Living’ Is Buddy Gore Chuckles
There’s a short film starring Brandon Routh and Bret Harrison making its way across the Internet. Called Cost of Living it is a science-fiction horror comedy thing, it features two grunts exchanging the requisite amount of witty repartee as they contain some sort of breach at an Umbrella Corporation-esque facility.
It’s got the chuckles, man. I hope to see more from first time director BenDavid Grabinski.
Study: No Connection Between Torrenting And US Box Office Numbers
Hollywood is one of those Gung Ho institutions pushing for the nefarious multi-headed bills to be pushed through Capitol Hill regulating the Internet. Shackling it down. That sort of jazz. They cite piracy as a major concern and cause of financial loss, which goes against at least one study.
Trailer: ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’ Goes Valentine’s Day, Proves Love Is Decapitation.
Oh, Lollipop Chainsaw. Part of me loves you because you’re so ridiculous. Part of me is embarrassed by you. Then there’s the majority of me which generally forgets you exist. I’ll give it up to this “Valentine’s Day” trailer, which explains the disembodied head stuck to uh…Lollipop’s (?) hip.
