Apple Drops iPod Shuffle Price
Apple has just dropped iPod Shuffle prices to $49 for 1GB (240 songs) and $69 for 2GB (480 songs). This makes it easy for anyone to own a decently-sized (both in physical size and storage capacity) mp3 player.
Pineapple Express Trailer Leaked
Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin), came up with idea for a “weed action movie.” Staring Seth Rogen (Superbad, Knocked Up) and James Franco. The trailer has been leaked onto YouTube.
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Stage6 Video Site to be Shut Down
In an announcement earlier today, Tom aka “Spinner” from DivX, Inc., the company behind Stage6, posted a notice on the website telling users that the service will be shut down on February 28. The reason cited was that the website is becoming too expensive to maintain. Stage6 is a website similar to the famous [...]
39-year-old Man in Girl’s High School Uniform
Tetsunori Nanpei, a thirty-nine-year-old man in Japan who was dressed up as a high school girl, has been arrested in Saitama. The man was on the grounds of the local high school when he was arrested for trespassing.
Free Tution at Stanford!
Stanford announced yesterday that it will be dropping all tuition costs for students whose parents make less than $100,000 per year and dropping room and board costs for students whose parents make less than $60,000 per year. Additional aid will also go towards families who make more than $100,000 per year.
The announcement was made by [...]
Guns on Campus
Given the unfortunate propensity in this country for psychos to walk into public places and start killing people, most recently at Northern Illinois University, the debate over whether or not guns should be allowed on college campuses has become a major issue. Only a couple of universities, including the University of Utah, where I attend, [...]
Confirmed: Blu-ray Wins
It was expected that Blu-ray would win the HD “war.” Shortly after our previous story on the subject, Toshiba announced that they will stop making HD-DVD players. This was only one day after Wal-Mart decided to stop selling HD-DVDs. Now the battle will be between Blu-ray, regular DVD disks, and internet downloading.