Comcast just launched Sci-Fi Channel HD in our area. On the surface, this is awesome because it means I can catch the final season of Battlestar Galactica in glorious high-def. However, it doesn’t look like this channel actually airs anything in HD — it’s all upconverted SD. What the hell is the [...]

The Shacknews headline reads: “Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Releasing Tomorrow; This is Real and We Are Not Shitting You.”
So says George Broussard, longtime president of 3D Realms, who today announced that a Very Special Teaser Trailer of the now-joketacular Duke Nukem Forever will be released tomorrow around noon, Central Time. This is the first [...]

I still can’t believe NBC is remaking Knight Rider (again), but they are — and the two-hour TV movie is scheduled to premiere on February 17th.
Some details and publicity photos were released by the network today. Here’s their plot summary, verbatim:
Sarah Graiman (Russo) is a 24-year-old Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, following in her [...]

At 10:00 this morning, Google launched its Street View of Metro Detroit. For those who aren’t familiar, Street View is a special feature of Google Maps that lets you essentially “walk the streets” of a city. It features 360 degrees of still photographs taken every few yards along thousands of city streets, and [...]

The Internet is enabling the proliferation of a culture entirely bereft of tact.
Think of it. Online, you can be completely anonymous and almost entirely unaccountable for your actions. This kind of anonymity can be a great thing. It can encourage debate and discussion where censorship (or even persecution) would otherwise result. [...]