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- LibDem MPs won't fight for debate on Digital Economy Bill
- Erykah Badu feat. ?uestlove: "Window Seat"
- Gallery: First images, details of Ubisoft's Scott Pilgrim game
- Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Steam, sans punk
| LibDem MPs won't fight for debate on Digital Economy Bill Posted: 28 Mar 2010 03:41 AM PDT Despite the party's excellent resolution on the importance of defending liberty in copyright legislation, the UK Liberal Democrats in Parliament have decided to stand back while Labour and the Tories ram through the Digital Economy Bill. Rather than calling for a full debate on the bill's provision allowing the record industry to take away your family's internet access if they believe (but can't prove) you've infringed on copyright, the LibDems have joined the other parties in supporting a short, After that, the Digital Economy Bill will disappear into "wash up," a fast-track, no-debate way of passing bills, usually reserved for bills that everyone agrees on and that need to get pushed through before an election. To my fellow LibDems, I ask: get the party to lean on the Front Bench and tell them that it is inconsistent with our party's principles to allow disconnection to go into the wash up. This is the final hour for the Digital Economy Bill, and possibly the final hour for justice in Digital Britain. Don't let the front-benchers let us down! Tell them to join with the thousands and thousands of Britons who've written to their MPs this week calling for a full debate on the Digital Economy Bill! Lib Dems, Tories and Labour pledge to ram disconnection through Previously:
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| Erykah Badu feat. ?uestlove: "Window Seat" Posted: 27 Mar 2010 01:56 PM PDT @Questlove adds, "People were so stunned they forgot to break out camera phones." I love it, and I love her. Brava. Pure punk rock. The blue text that oozes out of her head at the end reads GROUPTHINK. If anyone involved is reading, I'd love to hear what y'all shot on. The album on which this track appears, New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh, is out this Tuesday. Erykah Badu - Window Seat |
| Gallery: First images, details of Ubisoft's Scott Pilgrim game Posted: 27 Mar 2010 09:47 AM PDT  As if this week's teaser trailer premiere of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World -- the film adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's cult hit comic series (which I have already watched about a thousand times) -- wasn't enough, the first images and details of Ubisoft's game adaptation have come via games culture shop AttractMode. Via AttractMode we learn that the game's art direction and sprite work is being handled by none other than pixel master Paul Robertson -- the same as behind ultra-cute/violent viral videos Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight and Kings of Power 4Billion% -- with music being led by local favorite chip/rock artists Anamanaguchi. While the images show off what appears to be at heart a side-scrolling arcade beat'em'up -- of the same type that would originally influence the comics themselves -- the visual chaos present in these first pics comes from their use backing Anamanaguchi's Penny Arcade Expo performance where they debuted their theme song for the game, graphically glitched and remixed by frequent chipscene visual collaborators Paris and Outpt. Below, then, are a selection of those first images, reprinted with permission, with several handfuls more available via Attract Mode, and video of Anamanaguchi's theme song performed live.Anamanaguchi's theme song performance, via Edgar Wright: Previously:
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| Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Steam, sans punk Posted: 27 Mar 2010 07:26 AM PDT In a moment sure to inspire conflicted feelings of aesthetic revulsion and geeky fascination in any goggles-wearing would-be mad scientist, this local TV news segment demonstrates how superheating steam turns a warm fog into a powerful, invisible force capable of lighting a match. Steve Spangler, a former public school science teacher, does science experiments on Denver KUSA-TV 9News. He also has a Web site with instructions for performing this experiment at home. For all you gadgeteers out there. Thumbnail image courtesy Flickr user Charles_and_Clint, via CC   |
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