A proposed law in Florida would force bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis and other elected officials to register with a state office and file monthly reports or face fines of $25 per day. The bill was filed in the Florida Senate Tuesday by Senator Jason Brodeur, a Republican. If enacted, the proposed law Read more about Florida bill would make bloggers who are paid to write about elected officials register with ethics commission[…]

That was fast: Netflix has canceled its ambitious, widely hyped and, ultimately, widely disappointing anime adaptation Cowboy Bebop, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The move comes less than three weeks after the show’s Nov. 19 debut on the streaming service. The space Western had a rough reception. The 10-episode series garnered only a 46 percent Read more about ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Canceled by Netflix After One Season[…]

We like to complain about how data is messy, not in the right format, and how parts don’t make sense. Reality is complicated though. Data comes from the realities. Here are several guides to help with visualizing these realities, which seem especially important these days. Visualizing the Uncertainty in Data For when you don’t know Read more about Guides for Visualizing Reality – and checking on the charts[…]

Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image via Project Naptha.

Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source OCR engine available. Combined with the Leptonica Image Processing Library it can read a wide variety of image formats and convert them to text in over 60 languages. It was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it Read more about tesseract-ocr – An OCR Engine for 60 languages[…]

http://kotaku.com/real-time-face-substitution-will-hide-you-in-the-scarie-1496953478

This site gives you a list of movies in a XBMC style visual interface, suggesting the latest torrents to you as though you were in a videotheque instead of having to search for specific movies. Movies & Torrents | Torrent Butler.

This site is free, you don’t need to register and streams TV and movies to all over the world… Full Length TV Episodes, Latest Movies, TV Schedule and More – Picrap.com.

This page crawls your website and takes a screenshot using one of a vast amount of browsers available so you can see what that browser sees without having to actually install that browser. Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test – Browsershots.

This means that with some refinement, they can turn anything into a screen.

This is a huge huge list of video sharing websites you can use as a YouTube alternative.

“Painfully polite and hilariously hostile writing from shared spaces all over the world” http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/09/01/ps-bacon-is-life/. Bacon is life, indeed.

Plenty of ways to watch television on the PC, and plenty of ways to watch the webcasts, but what to watch? Lifehacker has a nice list of links to visit.

Comedy Central has resurrected the former Fox animated SF series Futurama, ordering 13 episodes to debut in 2008, Variety reported. The deal builds on the cable network’s acquisition of the 72-episode library last fall. Discussions about a revival of the half-hour show began in earnest earlier this year between Futurama producer 20th Century Fox Television Read more about Futurama will be back[…]

Aptly enough, it’s named “Don’t bomb us” – probably because Washington’s resident chimpansee wants to blow them up because of their annoying habit of reporting on current events in Iraq. http://dontbomb.blogspot.com/

Dominique Mouseover, clickety-click..

It’s sounds to me like a word for describing the act of coughing up feces, but no – it’s the name of a manufactured girl group targeting 8-year olds with a significantly sub-average IQ. Hey, it’s a HUUUGE segment, right, don’t diss this shit! Check out the awesomeness that is Huckapoo here. Turn the volume Read more about Huckapoo![…]

Now everyone will die the primitive way! Somebody get me a copy of this.. http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22948

The same scream has been used in countless Hollywood movies over and over again for the past 50 years.. The Wilhelm Scream

In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn’t, so he decided he would. Four years, thousands of miles of travelling, and over 200 interviews later, “BBS: The Documentary”, a mini-series of 8 episodes about Read more about Nostalgia galore[…]

Fine example of NuMedia at http://www.welcometothescene.com/ Drama series about the warez scene. No. Really. Seriously. I can’t imagine it appealing to Joe Blow, but I’m on episode 3 myself.

Fanfic new episodes for season 9 + 10. W. T. F.