Category: Entertainment

  • Mimas or the Death Star

    Mimas or the Death Star

    Maybe the deep space Mother Nature has been copying from the Star Wars movies when it created Mimas, one of Jupiter’s satellites. Mimas in front of Jupiter’s rings Via Neatorama.

  • I prefer the ZunePhone

    YouTube link to the ZunePhone ad

  • 150 short films free to download

    The 2007 Portable Film Festival has now closed its doors and the winners are known for each category. It means that you can download each of these little gems of movies.

  • The worst SciFi movies

    Science-Fiction produced both the worst and the best. Today, let’s look at the worst with the help of ForeverGeek that collected the Top 10 WORST Sci-Fi Shows EVER! w/Videos. That is so bad that’s it’s admirable!

  • Free movies, ad-supported, DRM-spiked

    I cannot really test it from my trip in South America. However, I thought useful to inform you that there is a new web site providing free movies. You just have to accept some ads (not very different from what you have on most TV channels). SpiralFrog Did I speak about its legal status? It…

  • 30 years of video nagware

    This month we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the agreement that led to the one-minute nag at the beginning of all DVD. We all have to watch at this no-fast-forward page of information about piracy. As if this had any impact on pirates. As if it was good practice to annoy 100% of your customers.

  • DVD in China: One manufacturer out, one format in

    Strange coincidence in the recent press releases about DVD discs. For the first time, the industry group that manages the licenses for the DVD format (the DVD 6C Licensing Group or DVD 6C) decided to revoque the DVD patent agreement of Chinese manufacturer Chaoyue (Jiangsu) Digital [1]. They must have been doing really ugly things…

  • 100 Best Reviewed Sci-Fi Movies

    Right! This is the ambition of Rotten Tomatoes to present us with the list of the 100 best reviewed Science-Fiction movies.

  • Live Rock n’Roll and die young

    Rock stars do not have a quiet life. But they often have violent or surprising deaths. When you’re a star, you need to stay one even in the process of dying. The 50 Most Awesomely Dead Rock Stars. But as if this was not completely obvious, there is an English scientist (he’s from Liverpool John…