Netflix Strikes Deal With DreamWorks Animation, I Want DreamWorks Studio Though!

The news is big. This is the first time a major studio has picked an online streaming company over a TV channel. DreamWorks Animation and has agreed to stream their movies on Netflix starting in 2013. Read the rest of this article…

Facebook Security Problems = Timeline / News Feed / Ticker Spam City!

Since the latest Facebook upgrade / update / layout change, people have been flipping out, as we knew they would. People have issues with their timeline, their wall, their friends, their games…It’s MAD!

One of the biggest flipouts has to do with the ticker and how much spamming it is doing. Well, here’s some info on how to sort that out and

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The Real Issues With The New Facebook

I guess a lot of you use Facebook? Maybe you’ve heard about the changes? Hm? Lots of people have opinions on the new stuff that the world’s largest social network is implementing and there’s been a lot of uproar and blah-de-blah about giving away information (those people comprise the Island of Misfit Toys) and some stuff that isn’t even true. Regardless, now having spent some time with the new Timeline feature and some of the cooler aspects of the new service, which I love, there are some niggling aspects to this newest wave of changes that just don’t iron my coat right. Or microwave my dinners properly. Well, whatever, here’s the stuff that really needs to be fixed up or changed for the service to truly emerge unscathed.

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Facebook To Begin Charging Users – NOT!

Facebook…Money…Subscriptions…For the last few days, a rumor has been circulating the interwebs telling people that the social networking giant is going to start charging users for the privilege of using the service.

This isn’t the first time people have started rumors saying that an online service was going to start charging for use and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Well, we have the skinny and we’re going to give it to you.

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Game Review – Crime Story For Android

Crime Story is the latest Android game released by Game Insight, a company which is becoming fairly prolific in the marketplace.

This is their third major release in just a few months and, so far, seems to be the best made.

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The Coolest Spaceship Designs In Science Fiction

I’m just going to warn you right up front: this article is going to get extremely nerdy extremely fast. That said it’s time I, the expert ogler of spaceship designs at FleshEatingZipper, decided to go over the best fictional spaceship designs that our collective imagination has ever committed to production. I did my best to only pick one vessel from each major franchise (so sadly, I didn’t get to include my beloved TIE Defender) so with that said, let’s start with a few ships I didn’t pick: the Serenity from Firefly (above). Ship is ugly, on top of that, thirteen episodes and a movie (named after it, impressively) just isn’t enough time to fall in love with a ship that absolutely janky. Also: Discovery from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Classic, but so boring. So let’s move on to the stuff I did pick!

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Logitech K360 Wireless Keyboard Review

My keyboard broke today. Well, it didn’t break in the sense of cracking in half – at least not until after it stopped functioning and I threw it – but it did stop working properly.

Naturally, it’s hard to write articles and books without a functioning keyboard so I ran on down to the store and picked up this little beauty; The Logitech K360 wireless.

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Moneyball – Movie Review – Why I Believe You Got Math In My Baseball

“Would I have been your first round pick?” Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) says, lounging while on the phone with Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a young Economics major from Yale. “Yeah, you were a good player.” But Beane laughs him off. “Seriously, would I be your first round pick?” A pause. “Ninth round, no signing bonus.” Early on, we see a young Beane just out of high school impress some talent scouts for the New York Mets. He takes the once-in-a-lifetime deal to play pro ball over a full-ride scholarship and ultimately fails to be the star player they picked him for. Now general manager of the Oakland A’s, the mathematical scheme Peter proposes to him can boil Beane and other players down to mere statistics through objective analysis. He can then take those players, undervalued by the broad baseball community for either their stance or party lifestyle, and create a playoff-ready team after a series of departures gut his lineup. It won’t be easy for Beane to convince his partners, though…

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Bear Grylls – Man Vs. Wild? HA! More Like Man Vs. Putting Disgusting Junk In His Mouth.

Man Vs. Wild came out in 2006, under a number of different names; Man Vs. Wild – AKA Born Survivor : Bear Grylls – AKA Ultimate Survival – AKA Survival Game. When the show premiered, the producers went out of their way to give the impression that Bear was left all-but-stranded in remote locations and had to get himself out. I watched a few episodes of that show but it really bored me, back then. I tried to watch a few more episodes over the last several days and it didn’t bore me but I think I had half a dozen episodes of sympathetic gut-chucking.

Back in the beginning of the show, of course, anyone with half a brain and an IQ slightly higher than that of an old tire knew that he was there with a crew. Very much unlike Les Stroud’s series “Survivorman” – in which Les was solo and operating cameras, narrating, pathfinding, getting food, etc…on his own – Bear had a full crew of camera people with him.

What we didn’t know, at first, was that he also had another crew with him.

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Amazon Announces Tablet Announcement Announcement

AMAZON SEEKS TO RULE TABLET UNIVERSE BY SHIFTING PARADIGMS, CHANGING HOW YOU THINK AND DO THINGS
Also, because they can.

SEATTLE, AMAZON HEADQUARTERS (HQ), Sep 23, 2011 (FEZWEB)

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today its announcement in respect to its highly-rumored, previously unconfirmed, and possibly non-existent new tablet. The titanic internet e-tailer, vendor of all things has nothing official to say, but will vaguely respond to various rumors about the device’s (or devices’) features. Media: please ignore the Amazon-branded pre-release tablets we sent you for review purposes (pictured above in reference shot).

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