The Pirate Bay Setting Sail for the Skies with Low Orbit Server Stations
The Pirate Bay has been in the cross-hairs of pretty much every government authority to shut them down for copyright infringement. Yesterday, they announced that they plan to take the fight to the skies, because land isn’t safe anymore, with Low Orbit Server Stations of LOSS for short. Read the rest of this article…
5 Videos To Cheer You Up After Mass Effect 3’s Ending
It seems as if the entire internet is all up in arms over Bioware’s decision to end the triliogy in such a disgraceful way. Who can blame them after many (including myself) spent nearly half a decade putting in hundreds of hours into a video game? If you just finished the campaign and still have tears streaming from your face, watch these videos and they’ll surely become your favorite therapeutic devices in the Citadel.
*This article contains spoilers!
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Melancholia Review: Interplanetary Danse Macabre
Melancholia tells the tale of two sisters who attend a wedding party and soon after receive front row seats for the end of the world. Kirsten Dunst gives a career high performance as a clinically depressed bride and Charlotte Gainsbourg plays her compassionate sister. Certifiable madman Lars von Trier takes up writing and directing duties.
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’21 Jump Street’ Review – Don’t Watch This Unless You Want To Laugh Your Ass Off
At two points in the theater for 21 Jump Street, I had to physically stop myself from laughing or I would go into a spasm. This movie is fast and absurd and I haven’t seen anything this humorous in years. It’d be easy to pass this off as another ‘stupid Jonah Hill’ movie, but it’s simply got too much going on. You need to get in the theater and see it. Today.
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Whiskey Media (Giant Bomb, Screened, Tested) Is Breaking Up, A Tear Runs Down My Cheek
Today, the crew of Whiskey Media’s flagship publication – Giant Bomb – went over the internet airwaves to announce that the House That Shelby Bonnie Built was being ripped in half. They, along with Comic Vine, would be headed to CBS Interactive, home of Gamespot (where many of Giant Bomb’s founders originated) while Tested, Screened, and Anime Vice would be owned by Santa Monica-based BermanBraun. Should Whiskey’s fans be happy or mad at the transaction?
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A More Beautiful Web With Internet Explorer
Microsoft wants to fight. With Xbox, it was against the PlayStation 2. With Windows Phone, it’s against other phones. With Internet Explorer, it’s against the world. Not content at this point to let other browsers slip by in marketshare (like fast-rising Chrome), Microsoft wants to show us with Internet Explorer 9 that it’s got it going on (like the Backstreet Boys, who are always awesome). Since Internet Explorer 9 is happy to be a sponsor of FleshEatingZipper, we’re more than happy to give them the spotlight! Read the rest of this article…
The Descendants Review: Sad Clooney
A disintegrating family finds salvation in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, a tender dramedy starring George Clooney and Shailene Woodley. I actually caught this movie back in November, but as I wasn’t with Flesh Eating Zipper back then and as this movie was just released on Blu Ray this week, now seems like a good time to revisit it. Also, my sister lectured me to try being a little less pessimistic in future reviews and the best way to do that, to my mind, is to review a movie that I’ve already seen and liked.
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Wikipedia Won The Encyclopedia War
Who would’ve guessed fifteen years ago that tons of credible information about virtually anything would’ve been available on the internet… for free? Unless you’re Jimmy Wales, it probably wasn’t you. When it came time to research anything of value while I was in college (despite IMDB being so awesome!), the best sources of information were still checked out of a library. Well, those times they do change. We knew that print was on the decline, but we weren’t sure how the confluence of web 2.0 and Wikipedia would spell out the doom for print encyclopedias. Well, after 250 years, Encyclopedia Britannica has announced that they’re going online exclusive and that their print volumes, which comprised 1% of their revenue last year, would be going away forever.
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This Is Our Review For The New iPad. It Is Exactly The Same As All The Others.
This is all so stupid. Starting last night, every last venue on the internet is going to acquire (or be given, if your last name ends in Mossberg and begins with Walt) a new iPad for review. And they’re going to universally praise it. And they’re going to say the exact same things about the exact same stuff. Every single time. So these thousands of outlets march in unison to say the exact same thing about a product that everyone’s already going to buy. So what’s so cool about this new iPad? Should you buy it? Chances are, you’ve already made that decision. Months ago. So why not read our review, in which we have no iPad at all? Let’s just say… it’ll be educational.
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EA’s Origin Service To Offer Sega Games
Well, it seems that mega-star video game developer / publisher Sega will be adding its most popular PC titles to the catalog of games offered by EA’s “Origin” digital distribution system, making Origin’s game catalog about as extensive as the Library of Congress.
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