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Gadgets
Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
2:00PM Wilson Rothman | Baby Gets Hit By Train, Strolls Away…There’s a Hole In My Heart That Can Only Be Filled By—Stem Cells?…Beware Bobbies Bearing BlackBerries…Science Figures Out Why We Break Out Bubbly More »
Software
South Park iPhone App Looks Awesome, Almost Perfect
8:30AM Matt Buchanan | The South Park guys clearly get it. They’ve already put every episode ever online for free. Now they’ve come up with a snazzy South Park iPhone app Xeni at BoingBoing got the first look at. While it doesn’t look like it’ll stream or download full episodes (yet), it’ll grab clips, snag wallpapers, drop news and do other wackiness, like assign Butters’ face as your awkward roommate’s picture. Overall, it looks pretty slick and Xeni says it “functioned beautifully,” but what’d make it truly killer is being able to stream full episodes. More »
Music
Canadian iPod Owners Get $44 Each For Crappy Battery Life (Thanks, Budday!)
12:40AM Wilson Rothman | I love when life imitates art. A few weeks after a South Park episode where indignant Canadians go on strike and are rewarded with Bennigan’s coupons, indignant Canadian iPod owners go to court and win roughly the equivalent of a meal at Bennigan’s: $44. Why? Because the 1G, 2G and 3G iPods that were supposed to have battery life of up to 8 hours instead delivered a paltry 3 hours, according to two separate rulings in Canadian court. Still up for settlement: the lawsuit by the Canadian gentleman who discovered that his 8GB nano only has 7.45GB of storage. He wants $220, but he’ll take $92. [InformationWeek]
Networks
AT&T: The Internet Will Explode in 2010
2:30AM Matt Buchanan | South Park already showed us how to fix the internet, but what really struck me was Randy’s speech at the end—he totally sounded like an AT&T or Comcast executive when he said, “It’s easy for us to think we can just use up all the internet we want but…it could one day be gone forever.” Actually, that’s exactly what AT&T’s VP for Legislative Affairs Jim Cicconi said at the Westerminister eForum: “We are going to be butting up against the physical capacity of the internet by 2010.” More »
Entertainment
How to Fix the Internet (According to South Park)
5:50AM Jason Chen | In the fantastic South Park episode last night (”Did you guys see the ghost?”) most of the nation was without internet. What does such an internet-connected society do when faced with such a technological dilemma? Face the giant Linksys router that controls all traffic in the country. And do This (see the video.) Something we’re sure you’re all familiar with. But seriously guys, did you see the ghost? It ran through here! [South Park] More »
Online
Every South Park Ever Online for Free (Legally!)
2:45AM Matt Buchanan | Taking a page out of the Hulu playbook, but awesomer, the South Park guys are streaming every single South Park episode in full at their official site, South Park Studios. What they get right: Streams are fast and vid quality is solid; every episode, from first to most recent is available (with one exception); and newer ones are uncensored. Yep, you actually get to hear your favourite kids scream “What the fuck is going on?” in the Britney ep. Major point of suck: ads. More »
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