Entertainment Stories for 2009

Sir Patrick Stewart 324
UK Consumers To Pay For Online Piracy 300
Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar 870
Critics Call For NASA TV To "Liven Up" 305
Real-World Synthehol In Development 273
The Science of Santa 76
Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names 301
Does Santa Hate Linux? 271
Networked Christmas Tree Controlled By Twitter 38
The Science of Avatar 275
Hulu and Warner Music Sign Deal For Music Content 29
BBC's Plan To Kick Open Source Out of UK TV 302
The 87 Lamest Moments In Tech, 2000-2009 328
Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations 427
Music By Natural Selection 164
DirecTV Sued By Washington State 181
Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts 362
Alien Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, Dead At 63 139
Netflix Sued For Privacy Invasion 262
DRM Flub Prevented 3D Showings of Avatar In Germany 386
PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361
BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice 412
$300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal 315
ASCAP Seeks Licensing Fees For Guitar Hero Arcade 146
Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits 316
"Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress 636
Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record 276
EU Recommends Noise Limits On MP3 Players 360
MySpace-Imeem Deal Leaves Indie Artists Unpaid 124
Google and Microsoft Sued By Mini Music Label 105
Music While Programming? 1019
Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing 1079
"Universal Jigsaw Puzzle" Hits Stores In Japan 241
The Star Wars Christmas Special Still Exists 316
Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 178
Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 245
D-Link's New Boxee Box Runs Linux, Eyes Netflix 138
MySpace Buys and Then Takes Down Imeem 165
FCC May Pry Open the Cable Set-Top Box 222
Not All iPods — Vinyl and Turntables Gain Sales 405
The Perl 6 Advent Calendar 160
Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy 705
Comcast to Buy 51% of NBC, GE Goes After 49% 258
Student Orchestra Performs Music With iPhones 65
Why Movies Are Not Exactly Like Music 378
Introducing L2Ork, World's First Linux Laptop Orchestra 86
Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets 279
Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? 536
Musical Tesla Coils Perform Zelda 82
The Technology Behind Last.fm 125
A Dual-Screen 10.1" Laptop In Time For the Holidays 104
Toshiba Employee Arrested For Selling Software To Break Copy Limits 90
Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents 352
Google's Reach Hits Your Tivo 98
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140
Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money 420
Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers 293
Modern Tech Versus the Past 219
William Gibson's Neuromancer Staged With Porn Star 204
Google Patents Displaying Patents 93
Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam? 479
Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation 619
1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics 271
Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? 849
NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears 881
Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen 375
Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off 402
Alternate Star Trek TOS Pilot Found 134
Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life 721
Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV? 321
The Languages of "The Office" 147
Future Blu-ray Movies To Come With Playable Game Demos 170
MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download 323
StarCraft AI Competition Announced 200
MPAA Asks Again For Control Of TV Analog Ports 466
Your Opinion Counts At CNN — But Should It? 383
Hollywood Backs Swedish Movie Streaming Site 156
Google Voice Controls Giant LED Display 66
UK's Channel 4 To Broadcast In 3D 126
MythTV 0.22 Released 329
Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler 227
WIPO Committee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright 84
Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio? 438
Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model 675
EMI Sues Beatles Usurper Off the Net 358
Going Head To Head With Genius On Playlists 174
Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project 208
Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off 256
DVRs Help Some TV Shows Improve Ratings 297
Asimov Estate Authorizes New I, Robot Books 426
The Golden Age of Infinite Music 294
Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies 263
The Gathering Storm Discussion 186
Hulu Blocks International Access Via Witopia 256
John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture 401
"Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain 294
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Pleo 40
Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month 545
Android Phone Turned Into Virtual Reality Goggles 103
Netflix Coming To Sony PS3 145
Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior 250
What If They Turned Off the Internet? 511
Music Rights Holders Sue YouTube Again 145
MySpace Trying To Regain Lost Ground With Games and Music 76
Hulu May Begin Charging For Content Next Year 234
Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties 645
Why Our Brains Will Never Live In the Matrix 35
Google To Take On iTunes? 277
Sony Demo'ing 360 Degree 3-D Tabletop Display 102
1/3 of People Can't Tell 48Kbps Audio From 160Kbps 567
Astro Boy Director Speaks 82
California Moving Forward With Big-Screen TV Power Restrictions 339
UK Copyright Group Tells Cinemas to Ban Laptops 438
Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes 620
Explaining Corporate Culture Through "The Office" 224
Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek 809
Wikipedia In Your Pocket, $99 412
Why Won't Apple Sell Your iTunes LPs? 306
100 Years of Copyright Hysteria 280
Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy 413
Design Starting For Matter-Antimatter Collider 191
Artist Not Allowed To Stream His Own Music 423
Fans Come Together To Complete Star Wars Uncut 179
The First High-Definition TV, Circa 1958 222
What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? 1021
Stargate Universe 829
Monty Python 40 Years Old Today! 298
50 Years of the Twilight Zone 104
New Comic Book About Logic, Math, and Madness 99
2009 Ig Nobels Awarded, For Gas-Mask Bras and More 123
Comcast In Deal Talks With NBC Universal 160
How To Play Poker With Your Rock Band Guitar 121
The Informant Is Back At Work 155
Carl Sagan Sings 183
UK Musicians Back Watered-Down "Three-Strikes" Rule 229
The First Geek Wedding At a LinuxFest 93
BellKor Wins Netflix $1 Million By 20 Minutes 104
Jack Kirby Heirs Reclaim Marvel/Disney Rights 380
Malaysia Seeking to Copyright Food? 330
Brian Eno Releases Second iPhone App 196
California Publishes Television Efficiency Standards For 2011 265
Burglar Logs Into Facebook On Victim's Computer 337
Supermarket Bans Jedi Knight 169
Gene Roddenberry's Mac Plus Is Coming Up For Auction 162
ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples 463
Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite 140
BBC Wants DRM On HD Broadcasts 267
Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin 210
Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest 189
Spotify Retreats To Invite-Only In UK 130
Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano 521
The Coming Problems For Rolling Out 3D TV 232
Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie 325
SA's Largest Telecomms Provider vs. a Pigeon 149
Copyright Troubles For Sony 276
How Hollywood Tie-Ins Saved Lego 193
Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle 746
iPod Fee Proposed For Canada 414
ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms 616
SOE Also Making a New Star Wars MMOG? 49
How 136 People Became 7 Million Illegal File-Sharers 313
MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole 275
Musicians Oppose Anti-Piracy Measures In the UK 150
The Design Failures That Led To Rock Band 177
AMC Releasing a New "The Prisoner" In November 174
Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid 652
In Praise of the Sci-fi Corridor 171
Sony To Launch 3D TVs By Late 2010 249
Will You Stream Or Download Your Mobile Music? 175
Lego Blocks Simulate Microfluidic Filters 26
Dad Builds 700 Pound Cannon for Son's Birthday 410
Disney Buys Marvel For $4B 423
Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting" 319
Pigeon Protocol Finds a Practical Purpose 113
Treasured "Moon Rock" Is Petrified Wood 209
Spotify Wins iPhone App Store Approval 114
An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC 345
How an Online-Only TV Series Stays Successful 163
"Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela 420
Microsoft Drops Xbox 360 Pricing 169
TiVo Relaunching As a Patent Troll? 335
Nintendo Working On Football Controller 123
US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft 451
Achron — an RTS With Time Travel 141
Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline 683
Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits 248
Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate? 443
Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely 461
A History of the Shrinking Game Console 107
EVE Bans Exploiters; Dropping 2% of Users Cuts Average CPU Usage 30% 261
Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk 289
New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" 410
Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted 278
Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is 54.2% 607
Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe 832
Fable III Announced For 2010 52
CCP Announces Console MMO Tie-In To the EVE Universe 89
Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed 439
First Age of Conan Expansion On the Way 47
Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password 214
Sony Announces PS3 Slim, Price Cut, Improvements To Home 427
Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA 371
Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports 202
The Problems With Porting Games 330
The Press Releases of the Damned 176
The Challenges of Class Balance In MMOGs 209
Xbox 360 Homebrew Finally Arrives 39
While My Guitar Gently Beeps 140
Comcast Seeking Control of Both Pipes and Content? 241
Are Game Consoles Ruining DLC? 399
Financial Issues May Force Changes On Games Industry 246
Mac, Linux Support For Quake Live, Preview of Rage 79
Designer Fights For Second Life Rights 64
Ultima Online Expansion Sept. 8, WAR Expansion In Near Future 40
Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed 342
How APB's Persistent World Will Work 33
On Transitioning To an Asian-Style MMO, Such As Aion 256
Guitar, Studio Wizard Les Paul Dies At 94 227
EA Looking Into Reviving Classic Games? 142
Judge Rules Against RealDVD 407
Classifying Players For Unique Game Experiences 167
EVE Online's Fight Against Currency Farmers 208
Xbox Gaming Platform To Span Web, Console, Mobile 33
Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs 302
Rest In Print, Gaming Journalism 65
Classic Game Console Design Mistakes 185
Charlie Stross, Paul Krugman Discuss the Future 127
Music Labels Working On Digital Album Format 250
10 Worst Evolutionary Designs 232
Comparing the MMO Industry With the Silver Screen 95
Opera Being Composed On Twitter 99
Neuros LINK Mixes Quiet, Aesthetics, and Ubuntu 121
Pitching Ideas At Gen Con Indy 26
Linux-Friendly, Internet-Enabled HDTVs? 277
Sony Producing New PS3 Hardware, Slim Appears Likely 183
The Perseverance of a Trademark Troll 63
Finding New and Unintended Ways of Playing Games 346
WebGL Standard To Bring 3D Acceleration To Browsers? 239
Playing a First-Person Shooter Using Real Guns 225
A History of Robotron 78
The Mice That Didn't Make It 202
StarCraft II Delayed Until 2010 453
What's In an Educational Game? 160
Wipeout HD Loading Ads Scrapped After Uproar 119
New Left 4 Dead DLC Coming Next Month 55
Mario AI Competition 110
Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu 513
Sims 3 Expansion Announced 84
Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable 1251
Building the Sports MMO Genre 52

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