Links collected almost daily.
Condé Nast bought tech blog Ars Technica and will fold it into Wired Digitial.
Slate takes a look at the CBS/CNet deal. Which is good, because I didn’t want to have to think too hard about the whole thing.
A preview of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse.
Book Launch 2.0. Hilarious! [via]
CBS paid $1.75-billion for CNet. WTF?
My third favorite social site, Brijit, is headed for the deadpool. I’m very sad about this. Anyone want to kick them a couple million to keep it going?
The Vatican thinks it’s cool if there are aliens. The gays are still evil and going to hell, though.
Here’s the biggest problem with Twitter: when it’s down, I have no where to complain about it. All I want to do is Twitter about how much Twitter is sucking. I tried dropping a note on BrightKite and it just wasn’t the same. This begs the question, if Twitter goes out of business tomorrow, what the fuck are we all going to do?
The amount of time needed to justify remaking a movie is getting shorter and shorter. Next up is a remake of 1992’s The Bad Lieutenant with Nicholas Cage in the Harvey Keitel role. No, that isn’t a typo. Nicholas Cage. In a remake of The Bad Lieutenant. Coming to a theater near you.
Leonard Cohen’s first concert in 17 years.
The day there was no news. Kind of, you know, poignant.
Gary Vaynerchuck’s 101 Wines Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight and Bring Thunder to Your World.
Fraggle Rock the movie and a new version of the Electric Company. I think this will go a long way to improving the state of our children.
I suspected Speed Racer wouldn’t do great, but damn. Under $20-million? That’s rough. And Karina’s got five reasons why its failure is bad for movies.
The Passively Multiplayer Online Game. [via]
UPDATE: I installed it and “played” for a couple hours. It kind of sucks.
Apparently that rumor that Viacom bought Hype Machine for $10-million is wrong. But, it looks like someone is buying it.
HBO on iTunes. Probably means HBO on iTunes US. Which does me no good whatsoever.
Pixlporn.com offers up some SFW nude celebrities.
Some pictures from GI Joe. I can’t remember the last time I was so excited to see a movie I’m pretty certain will suck.
