Charlie Murphy. (Image courtesy Crackle.com) Don't ask Charlie Murphy if he has any new "True Hollywood Stories" to tell. He's past all that. Even though his hilariously hard-to-believe tales of late night pancakes with Prince and partying with Rick James were spun into sketch comedy gold on the now...

Here I sit blogging in my hotel room at the Renaissance in Austin, Texas before a full day of search and social marketing brain dump at Pubcon South. Immediately after that is SXSWi for a few days. A few days after that it’s NYC for a PRSA thing followed by SES New York.  I speak at 15 plus e...

Fast and quiet Vista 64bit ComputerCore 2 Duo Computer - Antec 900 case. http://www.amazon.com/Antec-Nine-Hundred-Steel-Ultimate/dp/B000I5JHB0/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1232356772&sr=8-2 If you are looking for a very fast, but quiet and cool running PC, this is the one! Brand new Ant...

At long last, there are finally a few lower-priced alternatives to cruising eBay for a used Nikon speedlight or forking over a few hundred bucks for a new flagship off-camera flash. Hit the jump for all the deets on the new LumoPro 120, the Yong Nuo YN460 and the Cactus KF36. __________ Totally In S...

Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood reports that Mickey Rourke has signed a deal to appear in Iron Man 2, apparently ringing the bell on the ongoing wrestling match between him and Marvel. The site reports that Rourke signed on for the role of the Russian villain in the sequel after at first being low-...

The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

[Another notable interview from Gamasutra that's worth recounting here on GSW, Christian Nutt talked to Eidos' Alistair Cornish about working as a game designer in a different country to your core team - interesting stuff.] Alistair Cornish is a designer at Eidos London -- who works externally from ...

Jeff Jarvis takes note of a very important development among some of the biggest and most successful news websites in the world: they're publishing APIs. The Guardian just announced that it is releasing all its content through an API as well as making available many different data sets through a dat...

Disco Biscuits March 6, 2009 Charleston, SC Charleston Music Hall Source: Microtech Gefell m210 (DINa) > E.A.A. PSP-2 > Sony PCM-D50 (24/96) Location: SBD, DFC Transfer: Sony PCM-D50 > Sony Sound Forge 9.0 (normalized, 24/96 > 16/44.1 conversion) > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC Cho...

Nintendo's Senior Managing Director Shigeru Miyamoto was not a happy man during the GameCube era. The creator of Link and Mario describes Nintendo's fourth-generation console entry as a time of "dilemma." Miyamoto says in a new Famitsu interview, by way of 1UP, that during the Nintendo 64 and GameCu...