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About DVD: New DVD Releases - November 10, 2009

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New DVD Releases - November 10, 2009
The new DVD releases include The Merry Gentleman, The Ugly Truth and Up. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest and next week's movies on video/DVD.

 
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'The Merry Gentleman' DVD
Michael Keaton (Batman) plays the male lead in this non-formulaic character study, which also marks his directorial debut. But the most important character is portrayed by Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men). Read more

 
'The Ugly Truth' DVD
Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler are paired in this romantic comedy that has lots of crude, raunchy talk. Abby (Heigl) is a single woman with control issues who produces a Sacramento morning TV show, and she gets forced into working with the crass Mike (Butler). Read more

 
 
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VentureBeat

VentureBeat

Week in review: Tracking down a Modern Warfare pirate, Max Levchin on Slide’s big bet

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 12:09 PM PST

Here's our rundown of the week's business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:

modern warfare pirateHow investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate — “While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy underground of the business of illegal piracy. It also offers a peek at how investigators try to head off a major piracy disaster before it happens.”

4 ways to automatically get automatically rejected by an angel investor — “I've started three companies, and now I'm an angel investor. So I've been on both sides of the table.”

World of Warcraft ordered to shut down in China again — “The Chinese version of popular game World of Warcraft is a cash machine for its maker, Activision Blizzard. But the massively multiplayer online game's fate is up in the air again.”

Video of Arrington-Shukla fight highlights controversy of special offers — “TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington and Offerpal Media chief executive Anu Shukla got into a brouhaha over special offers, which are used to monetize social apps on social networks, at the close of the Virtual Goods Summit on Oct. 30.” Shortly after the fight, Offerpal named George Garrick as its new CEO, but the company says the timing was coincidental.

McAfee says piracy has tripled in the wake of Pirate Bay prosecution — “The number of new piracy sites on the web has tripled in the third quarter, despite prosecution of the owners of the controversial Pirate Bay file-sharing web site.”

And here are five more stories we thought were important, thought-provoking, or fun:

levchinMax Levchin on Slide’s big virtual goods bet, scams, and mating — “I sat down with CEO Max Levchin to ask about how his vision for the company has evolved and how he's changed as an entrepreneur since launching the company four years ago.”

Skype is finally free: eBay settles with Skype co-founders, clearing the way for buyout — “Now the Internet phone company will be sold to a consortium of investors that includes Skype's co-founders.”

Boxer pushes Climate Bill forward, whether GOP likes it or not — “Fresh off last week's health care reform win, president Barack Obama and his allies in Congress have turned their attention to climate change — particularly the Kerry-Boxer bill that would establish a carbon trading system and set renewable energy targets in the U.S.”

Greylock Partners recruits LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, raises $575M fund — “Reid Hoffman, the founder and chairman of popular professional networking site LinkedIn, is joining venture firm Greylock Partners as an investing partner.”

TeleNav IPO: If Google starts a free service, we’re doomed. Whoops — “TeleNav, which provides voice-guided navigation services on mobile phones, filed for an IPO today. The company's offering, though, goes head-to-head with Google's recently announced Google Maps Navigation offering.”
Posted by Taylor at 11:10 AM

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Video: First footage of EA Sports MMA

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 07:23 PM PST

I’m over here watching the Strikeforce show on CBS and there’s ads for EA Sports MMA all over the place. So I’m like, "hmm, maybe EA Sports has posted the trailer to its Web site yet?"

Yes. Yes it has.

Let the record show that I beat Sherdog and all the gaming sites I usually visit to this news. Go me~!

69adget’s Top 7 Ways to Stay Warm this Winter [NSFW]

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 05:00 PM PST

SnowBeech

Cold, miserable winters are about the best time to create some heat with a loved one… or yourself. If you're picturing a bear skin rug and roaring fire, well, things have come a long way. We're talking about couples toys and technology to keep things spicy, even in the coldest weather.


Warm Up
Everyone knows that sex is all about foreplay. (Guys, we know this, right?) Rather than going zero to 60 in ten minutes, incorporate some fun winter toys to get you and your partner in the mood.

Massage Oil Heater
Channel your inner 70's porn star with the Pure Gel Bottle Warmer and avoid a "this is going to be cold" Dr.'s office moment. This baby even warms multiple bottles so you can bust out different flavored lubes or massage oils based on your beau's preferences.

Philips Warm Sensual Massager
If your date didn't run screaming when he or she saw the heated oil contraption, it's fair game to whip out the Philips Warm Sensual Massager for him or her. Even if it seems lame, there's nothing that gets you in the mood more than a massage. Hands down. What makes this vibrating massager different is the fact that it heats up and is specifically designed for couples use. It even comes with some cheesetastic LED candles for "setting the mood." Hot.

The Main Event
When you're ready for the main event, trust these toys to keep your session extra hot.

Durex Play Warming Lube
The winter is the perfect time for some heated lube. Durex Play Warming Lube is designed to heat up with your own body temperature and get hotter with contact to heighten sensation. This lube is something that your lady will primarily feel, but don't worry guys you will feel it too, like warm apple pie. Thankfully, it's completely edible and the heat intensifies when you blow on it. Some people may complain that it's too hot, but I say if you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen!

The Hot Rod Heated Vibrator
No matter how realistic your vibrator may be, the one thing that's always missing is the sensation of body heat that you get from a partner –Sigh- Thank you Hot Rod Heated Vibrator for providing us with a heated vibrator complete with realistic skin sleeve that makes using it comparable to the real thing. You really never need a date again.

Vibrating Heated Nipple Clamps
For the truly daring, give these Vibrating Heated Nipples Clamps a try. Apparently nipple clamps are designed for men or women to stimulate your nipples, leaving your hands free to do other things. Will the vibration and sensation be enough to keep your headlights beaming and warm?! Give it a try and see.

Cool Down & Clean Up
If the pre-show and main event left you feeling dirty, jump in the shower for some post game clean up. Because what’s better than a warm hot shower on a cold winter day…

Suction Cup Shower Handcuffs
These Suction Cup Shower Handcuffs offer couples that dominatrix moment in the tub or shower. The cuffs are made of sturdy neoprene and Velcro with industrial strength suction cups that can easily adhere to a shower door or wall tiles. What flat surface you attach them to out of the shower is none of our business.

Vibrating Sponge
Because obviously a regular loofa isn't going to suffice this winter, grab a vibrating sponge to surprise your extra dirty lover. This vibrating sponge looks and feels like a normal sponge, but is sooo much more. Waterproof with a bullet vibrator hidden deep within, the sponge even has a hand strap for maximum control. Soap up and get dirty! This device is also a great if your love making session didn't quite do it and you need to step away for some much needed alone time.

For more about the latest sex toys and technology, check out 69adget.com

Rubiks Cube-based real-life pixel art suggests too much time on someone’s hands

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 02:30 PM PST

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Sometimes, the medium is the message. In this case, the medium is Rubiks Cubes. The message is that there’s an Irish guy named John Quigley who has too much free time. I mean, I suppose you could say the same of many artists, but this is some seriously time-consuming stuff. And while it’s impressive, it seems rather… algorithmic, doesn’t it? I notice there are no original compositions.

I guess it’s a hobby. Better than mine, anyway (crying and punching my pillow, if you’re wondering).

[via Technabob]

New Zelda for Wii probably not coming until 2011

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 01:50 PM PST

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It’s not that we want to rush Nintendo in the creation of their next opus, but it might have been nice to have it in 2010. Perhaps the biggest of the “big three” Nintendo franchise games in the works (along with Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M) is “tracking” for 2010 but Nintendo isn’t committed to the year. I’m guessing they’re not going to push for a holiday 2010 release, but may have preorders available then so they can get in on the season.

The good news is that Mario and Metroid are on schedule for 2010 releases. Is this the year I buy a Wii? I don’t know, with these crazy 360 deals and the PS3 Slim out there, it’s still a real toss-up for me.

Plus, I’m very, very poor.

Don’t forget to see Fedor knock out Rogers, both of EA Sports MMA, tonight

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 11:00 AM PST

mrfedor

Consider this a friendly reminder. Tonight at 9pm ET on CBS (in the U.S.; I’m sure there will be plenty of streams, though, which you can find on your own) two of the big stars from EA’s upcoming EA Sports MMA video game will hit each other very hard. Fedor Emelianenko, the big Russian guy who could well be the best MMA fighter of all time (or is that Sakuraba?), will fight Brett Rogers, of whom I know nothing.

There’s actual a reasonably interesting story vis-à–vis video games and mixed martial arts. A few years ago, UFC approached EA with the idea of making a video game. UFC declined, saying that it didn’t consider MMA to be a real sport, which, let’s just say, really upset UFC president Dana White.

UFC later signed a deal with THQ to make the video game, which has been both a critical and commercial success.

The success of THQ’s game is said to have sparked EA’s interest in making its own MMA game. EA then started signing fighters to a deal, before announcing that Strikeforce would be the game’s main promotion.

So yeah, I’ll be watching Fedor tear apart Rogers tonight. If only it were easier to place bets online from the U.S!

I am spending the day watching old Fedor fights, courtesy of alt.binaries.mma. Hopefully Mr. Emelianenko comes out to that Era song again, and not some generic rock nonsense.

The beauty of this post is that maybe six of you have any idea of what I’m talking about.

Zune HD firmware updated to 4.3: Nothing major

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 10:02 AM PST

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Own a Zune HD like Devin and I, the two hippest cats here at CrunchGear? Best to connect it to your PC right now so you can upgrade its firmware to version 4.3. Go, now!

Straight from the Zune message board:

Zune HD firmware update: Today we released the v4.3 firmware update for Zune HD players; this update adds support for upcoming 3d games and applications, as well as an auto-suggest feature for better text input, and other minor improvements. Enjoy!

Let it be known that I have installed zero applications on my Zune HD. I didn’t even know applications existed for the thing until a colleague over at Laptop Magazine pointed it out to me at a meeting several weeks ago. Simple apps, like Weather and whatnot.

I think a hands-on would be appropriate when Microsoft launches, I don’t know, a Twitter or Facebook app, if it ever does.

Flickr

Services made flesh: 10 weird – and not so weird – “avatar” gadgets

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 09:00 AM PST

The dawn of the 21st century brought us a problem: we had lots of data, but no real way to bring that data into the real world. We could feasibly lug laptops and phones around, but did they ever do exactly what we needed them to do? Don't answer that.

Manufacturers, in their wisdom, decided to do something about it and so devices like the Peek – for email – and the CueCat – for nothing – were born. Here’s a look at ten ‘avatar’ gadgets, gadgets that brought a web service into the real world, for better or worse.

Amazon steps up and matches Walmart’s Xbox 360 deal

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 05:52 AM PST

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Thank the gaming gods for retail competition. You know the Xbox 360 Walmart is running today, right? Yeah, Amazon is going to match it.

At 9:00 am EST and 3:00 pm EST Amazon will give you a a $100 promotional code when you purchase an Xbox 360 Arcade for $199. You better be sitting in front of your computer all signed in and ready to go before the two times though. The deal is good only for a limited quantity. [via Cheap Ass Gamer and Gizmodo]

Update: All done! All gone!
Posted by Taylor at 5:24 AM

The Latest from Boing Boing

The Latest from Boing Boing

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Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 10:25 PM PST


A copyeditor at the Toronto Star greeted the news that union copyeditor jobs were being eliminated in favor of freelancers by heavily editing the publisher's memo announcing same, pointing out all the ways in which the publisher could benefit from editorial aid.

This is very funny stuff, but having looked at the markup, I have to say that I would ask for a different copyeditor in future. A lot of these edits ("avoid simplistic qualifiers" for "very") fall under the heading of "creative disagreement" not "helpful suggestion" or "correction." I've generally benefitted from copyeditors who know the difference, but on the rare occasion where I've had to deal with a couple hundred pages of redlines by a copyeditor who thought that he was my co-author, it's been quite a struggle.

Disgruntled Star Editor Takes Constructive Revenge (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Zoomquilt II: Flash zoom-through painting

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 04:43 PM PST

Zoomquillllltt

The Zoomquilt II, a 2007 sequel to the jarring Zoomquilt of 2004, is an even more hypnotic Flash zoom-through collaborative painting with bits from more than 30 different artists. Zoomquilt 2 (via @Chris_Carter)

What MP3 player should I buy?

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 07:28 AM PST

I'm in the market for a new MP3 player -- my second-gen iPod Nano is finally dead, and I don't want to buy another iPod, or any other player with DRM built in. I figure that any company that wants to devote its engineers to figuring out how to frustrate my desires doesn't really want my business.

Who'd got a suggestion? I'm looking for something:

  • * small (Nano-sized or smaller),

  • * low-capacity (8GB is fine, all I use it for is podcasts),

  • * chargeable and connectable with a standard USB cable,

  • * reasonably rugged,

  • * with an LCD,

  • * capable of marking some files as podcasts or audiobooks and remembering where you stopped playing them, and,

  • * most importantly, I'm looking for something that can be connected to a set of lanyard headphones like these
I don't care if it has WiFi or Bluetooth, or if it plays games, or if it has a "store" on the net that lets me get music for it directly. I just want a chunk of solid-state storage with a headphone jack and a decent menuing system and headphones I can wear around my neck so that they don't get tangled in things.

Suggestions? Feed the comments, below (don't send email, I'm taking a break from it for the weekend).

Tiny jack-o-lanterns carved in seed-pods

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 07:16 AM PST

Master haunt modeller Ray Keim sez, "After a little bit of experimentation and a lot of patience, I figured out how to carve Putka Pods [ed: small, pumpkin-like dried seeds] into extremely tiny jack-o-lanterns!"

Putka Pod Possibilities! (Thanks, Ray!)

Previously:


Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Surgery On a Beating Heart

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 06:50 AM PST

And Now, Some Ripped-From-the-Headlines Context.....

First, why a beating heart? Traditionally, if you had a clogged artery on your heart and doctors wanted to sew in some "bypass" arteries to get around the sluggish ones, the surgeon would shut your heart down, using a heart and lung machine to pump your blood instead. Less than a decade ago, though, doctors started collecting evidence suggesting that being on the pump could, occasionally, lead to strokes, memory loss and personality issues. Off-pump, beating-heart, bypass surgery became an alternative.

I'd had this video planned for the last couple of weeks. But, on Thursday, a big study came out that suggests off-pump isn't as great as everyone was hoping it would be--nor was on-pump as bad as everyone was worried about. The New York Times explains it thusly:

In the study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, 2,203 patients were randomly assigned to have their bypass surgery on pump or off. Because the study was sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the patients were mostly men. A year later, those who had had off-pump surgery had poorer outcomes. Fewer bypasses stayed open and patients were more likely to have needed a repeat operation or to have had a heart attack or to have died. They were no less likely to have had strokes or difficulty thinking.

Older 'Pump' Heart Bypass is Best, A Study Finds, from the New York Times

Thumbnail image courtesy Flickr user Gustty, via CC

Danish anti-piracy group gives up

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 06:03 AM PST

Christian sez, "Just now it has been announced in the press by the official Danish Anti-Piracy agency, Antipiratgruppen, that they are throwing in the towel and will seize their operations completely; to find and prosecute music copyright offenders. Here is a translation of the first published article in today's Danish press."
"We have to, because it is has been announced by the state court, that it takes very strong and concrete evidence to have these people prosecuted. We have simply not been able to establish the necessary evidence..."

An overview of Danish trials shows an extremely small possibility of getting sentenced - unless the the accused confesses. Four principal state court trials last year lead to three acquittals and only a single sentence for illegal file sharing. And this sentence only came into place because

"Out of the four cases we can establish, that the courts do not sentence owners of Internet connections simply because of technical identification of IP-adresses and technical recognition of files," they say.

Danish anti-piracy agency throw in the towel (Thanks, Christian!)
Posted by Taylor at 5:20 AM

Wizbang

Wizbang

Obama/Pelosi Care Passes House 220-215

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 08:43 PM PST

Obama/Pelosi Care passes House of Representatives on narrow (220-215) vote

Hasan worshipped with 9-11 hijackers

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 07:12 PM PST

This is pretty damning for those who continue to brush aside the Fort Hood shooter's Islamofascism: Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas,...

The Balance Between Judgment and Hysteria

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 10:33 AM PST

Thursday's shootings at Fort Hood have naturally evoked strong emotions. And the media and some prominent political leaders have taken all-too-predictable postures, two of which I feel compelled to address....

"Am I killing, yes I am, I know that"

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 09:19 AM PST

A brutally honest moment, if there ever was one, from an abortionist, a late-term abortionist: Somewhere in the Constitution are words that allow this man to kill tiny babies... for...

A teachable moment

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 08:45 AM PST

We will miss this man more and more: Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers and their families near the site of the worst mass...

Chicks Fight!

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 07:00 AM PST

At Fort Hood, it is worth noting that the gunman was stopped by a civilian police officer. A woman officer. A woman I personally dwarf by about eight inches in...

Just how out of touch with reality is the Obama White House?

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 06:50 AM PST

So out of touch that they claimed no knowledge of the Tea Party movement? So out of touch that President Obama had no interest in watching Tuesday evening's election results?...

MSM disconnectedness

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 06:25 AM PST

Those who seriously follow journalism today, or what passes for it, will not be surprised by what follows but it's something that needs to be discussed and passed on nevertheless....
Posted by Taylor at 2:06 AM
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