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DREAM - Art & Culture of Burning Man
Illuminating the culture of Burning Man – the annual pilgrimage to Nevada's Black Rock Desert – as a catalyst for community, innovation and the actualization of dreams, this film offers a glimpse into the art and culture of this dynamic community with the hope to spark a dream within you.
DREAM premiered at the Sonoma International Film Festival. Directed and produced by Rich Van Every of lightworkscreative.tv. Rich also was a cinematographer for "Spark: A Burning Man Story," a feature film on the inside story of Burning Man during a year of unprecedented challenges and growth.
"Spark: A Burning Man Story" premiered at SXSW 2013 and will be in general release Summer 2013. See sparkpictures.com for more information and to sign up for email updates on upcoming screenings.
Cast: Spark Pictures, LightWorks Creative and Rich Van Every
Tags: Burning Man, Dream, Black Rock City, Rich Van Every, Lightworks Creative, Earth Harp, Art Cars and Mutant Vehicles
Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Release Candidate Is Out
New submitter Anand Radhakrishnan writes "The release candidate for the much-anticipated Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' is available for user testing. Its many new features include Cinnamon Control center, an improved login manager with HTML 5 support, a driver manager, and a lot of under-the-hood improvements. 'A new tool called MintSources, aka "Software Sources," was developed from scratch with derivative distributions in mind (primarily Linux Mint, but also LMDE, Netrunner and Snow Linux). It replaces software-properties-gtk and is perfectly adapted to managing software sources in Linux Mint. From the main screen you can easily enable or disable optional components and gain access to backports, unstable packages and source code.' This release with Cinnamon looks really tempting."
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Where Are My Keys?
"The first music video by Flaming Hot Danger. This is a comedy song and it's really important and possibly even life changing, so you should watch it..."
Next Media Animation (NMA)'s Finding Dory 2 Trailer
"Finding Nemo's sequel gets the Taiwanese treatment! Finding Dory, the sequel to Finding Nemo, is finally in the works! It only took 10 years, jeez!
Fans went crazy after Ellen Degeneres announced there will be a Finding Nemo sequel during a taping of the Ellen Degeneres show at the beginning of the month. Finding Dory is scheduled to be released Thanksgiving of 2015..."
5 SecondFilms: Breaking Into Hollywood
"Incidentally, Rousselet's screenplay was called "Breaking Into Hollywood," which was about a hardscrabble screenwriter named Michael Rousselet who had a hard time making it in Hollywood, so he wrote a screenplay called "Breaking Into Hollywood" and broke into a guy's house who lived fairly close to the Hollywood sign. INCIDENTALLY."
Australian Government Backdoor Internet Filter Shuts Down 1,000 Websites
An anonymous reader writes "The Australian government has secretly censored over 1,000 web sites through a hitherto-unused internet censorship law. In April the Melbourne Free University was blocked without any explanation. Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act allows the government to close web sites without warning to "uphold laws, protect public revenue and safeguard national security". This is open to abuse as Australians only have limited free speech rights which already make it difficult for the press to report corruption."
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Nintendo Hijacks Ad Revenue From Fan-Created YouTube Playthroughs
mcleland writes "The BBC reports that Nintendo is now using the content ID match feature in YouTube to identify screencap videos of people playing their games. They then take over the advertising that appears with the video, and thus the ad revenue. Nintendo gets it all, and the creators of these videos (which are like extended fan-made commercials for the games) get nothing. Corporate gibberish to justify this: 'In a statement, the firm said the move was part of an "on-going push to ensure Nintendo content is shared across social media."'"
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9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers
New submitter SessionExpired writes "Five 9th graders from Denmark have shown that garden cress won't germinate when placed near a router (Google Translation of Danish original). Article text is in Danish, but the pictures illustrate their results. The exact mechanism is still unknown (Danish original), but experts have shown interest in reproducing the experiment."
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Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness</em>
J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of Star Trek was wildly successful. It raked in hundreds of millions at the box office, and revitalized the Star Trek franchise, which had languished for 7 years without a new film and 4 years without a TV presence (after 18 consecutive years of new shows). It also did something no Trek movie had done before; it made Star Trek ‘cool’ in the public consciousness. Combined, those factors ensured Abrams would get another turn at the helm of a Trek movie, and sooner rather than later. With today's release of Star Trek: Into Darkness, that trend is very likely to continue. It's a movie with all the same strengths and weaknesses of its predecessor, and if it worked before, it'll work again. Read on for our review.
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Game Fails: Best fails of April 2013
"Ready for the best of the worst for April?
For more Game Fails visit http://www.youtube.com/gamefails ..."
From http://www.dorkly.com/embed/51998/the-biggest-glitches-of-april-2013 ...
Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns
Today eight members of the U.S. Congress have sent a letter to Google's Larry Page, asking him to address a number of privacy concerns about Google Glass. In the letter (PDF), they brought up the company's notorious Street View data collection incident, and asked how the company was planning to avoid a similar privacy breach with Glass. They also ask how Google is going to build Glass to protect the privacy of non-users who may not want their every public move to be recorded. Further, they ask about the security of recordings once they are made: "Will Google Glass have the capacity to store any data on the device itself? If so, will Google Glass implement some sort of user authentication system to safeguard stored data? If not, why not?" Google has until July 14th to respond.
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for PCs
Platinum Games creative producer Jean Pierre Kellams tweets a confirmation that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming to the PC platform. There are no details yet, here is what he says: "I am...
April NPD Estimates
Bloomberg has details from the latest analysis of videogame sales in North America from the NPD Group. As is to be expected, all this talk of next generation consoles is not helping sales of those...
GameStop Stops Rainbow 6 Patriots Preorders
IGN notes that GameStop has stopped taking preorders for Rainbow 6 Patriots, prompting speculation that the planned next installment in the tactical shooter series may have been cancelled. Other...
Rising Storm Preorders
Steam News announces that preorders are now underway for Rising Storm, the next installment in Tripwire Interactive's Red Orchestra series of military first-person shooters. Preorders come at a 15%...
7 Days to Die Announced
Dallas-based indie developer The Fun Pimps Entertainment announce 7 Days to Die, a voxel-based sandbox game set in a post-apocalyptic environment with FPS, survival/horror, RPG and tower defense...
Orc Attack Gets Flatulent
Casual Brothers announces a name change for Orc Attack, saying this is now known as Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion, reflecting the biological warfare featured in the upcoming action game for Windows,...
Ride to Hell: Route 666 Trailer
Here's a new trailer from Ride to Hell: Route 666 Deep Silver's upcoming motorcycle action/strategy game. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but no one in this clip seems to...
Morning Interviews
Blizzard Insider #48?Interview with Tom Chilton on Patch 5.3- Escalation - World of Warcraft.
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