Microsoft offers $250K bounty for Conficker author
Microsoft has offered a US$250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people behind the Conficker (aka Downadup) malware. The Redmond software giant also...
View ArticleDouglas Adams Fans celebrate Towel Day – UPDATE
Don’t panic. Do you know where your towel is? If you do, then you must be a really hoopy frood. Today is the day fans around the globe celebrate the works of science-fiction…
View ArticleAuthor says e-book piracy is wrong, but she downloads pirated music
Norwegian author Anne Birkefeldt Ragde, has made a bit of a fool of herself over her anti-piracy standpoint during an interview with news publication DN.no. Ragde is known for her children’s and young…
View ArticleGoogle Doodle celebrates 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges, the master of...
A trip to Google’s homepage today will greet you with an unusual Google Doodle created to honor the 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges. The Argentine writer, essayist, poet, and translator was born…
View ArticleInteractive Google Doodle celebrates sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem
The Google Doodle for today celebrates the Polish author Stanislaw Lem who died in 2006 aged 86. It’s also one of Google’s most ambitious doodles, and certainly one of the longest. If you’re…
View ArticleStory Bundle is the Humble Bundle for books
The Humble Bundle has done wonders for the visibility of indie games, and now Story Bundle is looking to do the a same for independent authors. The first bundle being offered is called…
View ArticlePublishers attempt to block Amazon’s bid for .book and other generic...
When ICANN first announced its intention to open up the top-level domain system for generic word use, it was met with varying levels of enthusiasm. On the one hand, it would allow a…
View ArticleMichael Crichton left one more dinosaur novel for us to read
When Michael Crichton sadly passed away back in 2008 he left behind 27 novels, some of which were written under the name John Lange, but all as enjoyable to read today as they […] The post Michael...
View ArticleChat with Werner Herzog on his birthday (kinda)
Werner Herzog is a weird guy. He’s lived a life mostly isolated from tech, making his first phone call at 17, and flatly refusing to use the internet for much of anything. Whenever […] The post Chat...
View ArticleLost ‘Sequel’ to ‘A Clockwork Orange’ Discovered
Malcolm McDowell in a scene from the movie 'A Clockwork Orange,' directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on Anthony Burgess' novel. (Photo Credit: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) A previously...
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