Business 2.0 has an interesting article on the porn biz [via Lockergnome].

Bill Vaughan: “If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.” [Quotes of the Day]

Damn the theme song for this show is catchy. I keep finding myself humming it.

Supposedly the next Miyazaki film to come out in the US will be Porco Rosso. [via ANN]

Supposedly the next Miyazaki film to come out in the US will be Porco Rosso. [via ANN]

With much sadness, I found the following at brunching.com.

Well, it’s the end of an era, or perhaps the beginning of a post-era. It’s not so much that The Brunching Shuttlecocks are breaking up, but rather that we’re reinventing ourselves as a dormant, non-producing comedy team. We’re exploring the comedic potential of doing nothing. We’re trailblazing the cutting-edge realm of non-comedy . It’s an exciting time. [The Brunching Shuttlecocks]

On the positive side, they do have some other projects they are working on listed at the link above. I’ll miss the site a lot. I got much entertainment from it while it was up. Hopefully the archives will stay up for a while.

Ben Edelman over at Harvard Law came out with an article on Gator that discusses how their ad targetting appears to work. Kinda interesting. News.com has an article on it also. [via Scripting News]

Last weekend I decided to catch up on all of buffy that I’d missed this season. Luckily I found tvtorrents.com. It’s a cool page that provides links to bittorrent downloads of tv shows. It works well enough that I was able to get around 9 episodes in two days. Last night, someone pointed me at the Digital Archive Project, a site that provides links to people sharing out old TV shows. Things like MST3K, SCTV, and Invader Zim. But specificly, shows that aren’t available any other way (ie on DVD). I discovered they have some episodes of The State (though they haven’t added any in ages and ages). Now, they use a filesharing system called eDonkey and it’s been one of the more difficult programs I’ve used. It runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X, but at least for OS X there is a command line client and that’s about it. So far though, I can’t see what makes it better than any other P2P software. I also have been spoiled by the whole ‘just click here and download’ aspect of bittorrent.

William G. McAdoo: “It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.” [Quotes of the Day]

Washington state has banned the sale of violent video games to minors.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – The state of Washington has become the first in the nation to regulate the sale of video games. Gov. Gary Locke on Monday signed into law a bill banning the sale of certain ‘violent’ games to anyone under 17.

Specifically, the law forbids selling minors any video or computer game depicting violence against law enforcement officials. Among the titles affected are industry best sellers “Grand Theft Auto 3” and “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City”, both published by Take Two Interactive (TTWO: Research, Estimates). Presumably, Atari’s (ATAR: Research, Estimates) $30 million “Enter the Matrix”, which hit store shelves last Thursday, would also be off limits to its core audience. That title earned only a “Teen” rating, since it is not graphically violent, though police officers are in-game enemies. [via cnn.com] [via Dispatches from Revland]

Heck, why stop at videogames. How about any movies that depict violence against law enforcement officials. TV too? Books? Come on, let’s be consistent here.