This isn’t going to make my wife very happy. She loves playing Scrabble online.
Facebook Asked to Remove “Scrabulous” - New York Times:
LONDON (Reuters) - The makers of word game Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove its popular online version “Scrabulous,” which they say infringes their copyright. The U.S. and Canada [...]
Despite the certain eyeball-rolling from the young ladies in our lives we know is sure to come - or perhaps, in fact, because of it - your Minor Thoughts correspondents feel we cannot possibly consider ourselves socially-responsible bloggers without mentioning the latest on video-game addiction.
So: According to The Economist,
“Both console gaming [i.e., [...]
CATHOLIC LEAGUE SPOKESPERSON Kiera McCaffrey is righteously indignant about an album booklet included in Britney Spears’ new CD release, “Blackout”, reports MTV.
Said booklet shows Britney Spears and a handsome man of the cloth getting cozy together in the confessional.
Declares McCaffrey: “What would be great is if she got serious about her religious faith and instead [...]
The new film adaptation of Beowulf’s justly been receiving loads of huzzahs for its groundbreaking use of 3D technology (The Economist has devoted an article to how exactly it works), but its screenplay has received far less - if any - respect from the critics.
This is perplexing, since what writers Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman [...]
Above: Oh yeah, Baby, what a… a… drawing…
We kid you not: in celebration of the release of X-Men 3 this year, entertainment site IGN.com released an article listing the “Top Ten X-Babes” - that is, the ten most physically attractive women featured in X-Men.
Not the women featured in the movies, mind you.
The ones in the [...]
I’ve enjoyed most of the TV shows that Tim Minear has worked on — Angel, Firefly, Wonderfalls, and Drive. Unfortunately, three of those four were canceled after 13 episodes or less. Fortunately, Tim Minear gets another chance.
“Miracle” — from 20th Century Fox TV, where Minear and Holland are based with overall deals — [...]
I know this entry’s headline doesn’t look promising, but stick with me. This is interesting.
In a column for FOX News’ occasionally shameless entertainment section, Roger Friedman underscores the true challenge Britney Spears is currently facing in trying to save her career.
Summarily, Britney Spears has a new album out now, called “Gimme More”, and she [...]
Maybe Dan Rather’s a better newsman than everyone gave him credit for; his supposedly rude comments about “dumbing… down and tarting up” the news are starting to look prescient.
“Can A Bikini Model Be Made Into An Instant Anchor?” the New York Post asks in a recent news story, and almost in unison, a chorus of [...]
I received another e-mail from Dr. Rick Scarborough today. Once again, I find myself wanting to challenge something he said. He started out today’s e-mail by talking about the heretical “Da Vinci Code” movie:
After a brief run of celebrated films portraying the truth about Christ, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Passion, Satan [...]
George Lucas is releasing the original theatrical version of the original Star Wars trilogy. This is the best news I’ve heard all day:
Even though George Lucas adamantly declared 2004’s digitally restored Star Wars Trilogy DVDs the definitive versions of his movies, fans have held out hope for DVDs of the originals. [...]