The Buzz Killer

According to the New York Times, Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have all agreed to block access to "Internet bulletin boards and Web sites nationwide that disseminate child pornography." The move–part of an agreement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo–will affect customers across the country. Sounds good, right? But the devil, as […]

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R&B star R. Kelly was acquitted today on all counts in his child pornography trial in Chicago. The jury reached a verdict in less than eight hours of deliberation.
Damn, that was quick!
If you’ll recall, Kelly was charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an allegedly underage girl (13, say prosecutors). Neither Kelly […]

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Eminem has finally been starting to ease out of self-imposed hip hop exile….but in unusually ways.
Earlier this week Em called into his Shade45 Sirius show and prank-called LL Cool J! Yup. You read that right. You can listen to it here.
Then, Delicious Vinyl asked Eminem if he would do a remix of Masta Ace’s classic […]

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Internet savvy Texas Republican Ron Paul’s presidential campaign will finally be over soon.
Yes, Paul officially ended his White House bid at a rally outside the Texas GOP’s convention Thursday, bringing closure to his “ideological crusade against big government and interventionist leanings in the Republican party.”
You’ll recall Paul raised millions from supporters attracted to the libertarian-leaning […]

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Capcom just posted an ad on their US blog referencing their 25th anniversary. If you could read Japanese, or these words here right in front of you, you would know that hidden at the bottom is the announcement that the Clock Tower film adaptation will be coming out in 2009 and the Onimusha movie will […]

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According to a Pike & Fischer’s survey, broadband services and speeds are ranked higher than any other "new" service when it comes to importance to consumers. Almost 40% of those surveyed rated high speed data as most important, where only 25 percent ranked HDTV as high, and under 10% thinking highly of digital phone service A lowly  .014% […]

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John Diamonon, product manager for Capcom, recently told MTV Multiplayer Blog that his company checks out the resale prices on eBay to see if their old games still hold enough interest to prompt a remake. "To choose titles to revive, we see if we can give old franchises the modern touch, and we evaluate the […]

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An author named Phillip Toledano recently published a book called Phone Sex that, surprise, interviews those faceless voices behind your sex calls (oh c’mon, you know you do it!).
Phone Sex, due out in July through Twin Palms, takes the reader into the workspace (i.e. homes) of nearly 30 phone-sex operators, reveals their faces and asks […]

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Shane Kim, the man we all know as the Vice President of Microsoft Game Studios, has been promoted to a position created just for him; Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment business. How regal.
Apparently the first item on his new agenda is to grow the Xbox 360 in the Japanese […]

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The greatest rivalry in videogame history finally has a clear and concise winner: According to a report in the journal Cyberpsychology & Behavior, the Red team is better than the Blue team.
The study looked at 1,347 matches between "elite teams" in Unreal Tournament 2004, and determined that, all other things being equal, the team in red […]

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