The AACS LA doesn’t want you to have the number 45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2.  They can bite my computer’s shiny metal ass.  [h/t Boing Boing]

I have a damaged DVD that will no longer play in my DVD player. My computer seems to be able to read it OK. The official position of the MPAA is that I’m shit-outa-luck, and should just buy another copy. Naturally I prefer to exercise fair use rights, and make a backup [...]

When I was in the second grade or thereabouts, the teacher read us “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl in installments after lunch. I loved the book, and was delighted by the first film adaptation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. I’ve read the book [...]