This message is to inform you about recent efforts by the motion picture studios to shut down TorrentSpy. As you may know, in February 2006 the major movie studios and their Washington lobby, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), filed a lawsuit against TorrentSpy and other search engines.

We guess that hiring hackers and turning a blind eye to identity theft is not enough for the movie studios and the MPAA. Now they want to know who you are, what you search for, and what you download. In short, it is the view of the movie studios that websites should not allow anonymous use and your activity on the Internet – anywhere – is their business.

Google Inc.’s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet’s top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.

Yup every game in order of their release

Probably not, as it turns out; certainly not in the Western hemisphere, anyway. Working with publicly-known figures, veteran MMO developer Raph Koster recently made this observation on his blog: It may be possible that World of Warcraft is actually sitting around #4 or #5 in the top MMOs in North America and Europe.

PAC-Man and Asteroids flash game mashup

The Incredible Melting Car, easy to store, hard to resist!

An ambitious German programmer decided to write the world’s biggest “Hello, World!” result. Those of you who are programmers know that writing your first code in a programming language usually involves writing a program to print out the words “Hello, World!”. It’s been a tradition for several decades now. This guy decided to show the words in a crop field so it would be visible in aerial photos. Only, he decided to do it in the form of a Semacode (a visual code – or bar code – for containing information).

A movie theatre chain in Canada says it’s responding to customer demand and wants the provincial government to allow the consumption of alcohol at one of their downtown Toronto locations.

This is the text present in Chapter 11 of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine as serialized in the New Review. It was cut from the book but later published on its own as a short story, “The Grey Man.” Any changes made in that version are unavailable.

Still a little upset with the Jar Jar Binks debacle? Think you know what happened between the time Anakin became Vader and Luke met Obi Wan in the desert? If the idea of expanding that far, far away galaxy is a lifelong dream of yours, you might want to grab your iBook and get on your speeder bike and hurry on down to Santa Monica.