Filed under: Industry, Video, Animation, Reality-Free The Parents Television Council has added FOX's Family Guy to the list of shows it's going after. They are filing another complaint with the FCC, this time over last Sunday's episode of the cartoon that featured (from the PTC complaint) "bestialit...

We're not sure what Acer is up to lately, but this is the second slightly-revised Aspire One we've seen in the past few days -- it looks like that rumored slimmer model with the weird hinge VGA and Ethernet ports is in fact real and headed for our fair shores. No hard specs on this mysterious strang...

This is related to yesterday's blog Public Access and PEG channels have been around for over three decades. Watching the way phone company lobbiest influence legislators you might think these people have been living in a dictatorship in a far off place on the globe. They seem to have no idea on the ...

So, I’m looking around trying to find something I haven’t seen 12 times on other pages (it’s been a slow week for news items – you can only gush over the same 3 things at the big magazines for so long), and I find something from the long distance echo department (a boyhood euphemism for I sa...

Obama has appointed Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, which I think is pretty good. Genachowski is on the record as supporting network neutrality. Also, there’s a fair amount of eco-friendliness and tech-savviness in his background — he headed up the Obama team’s internet campaig...

Ok, we’re not exactly sure what happened here but someone definitely screwed the pooch when assembling a recent FCC application. We’re guessing someone at Toshiba fell asleep at the wheel when slapping its FCC application together but the bottom line is it looks like we now have prelimin...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) in the matter of “Implementation of the Child Safe Viewing Act; Examination of Parental Control Technologies for Video or Audio Programming.” (MB Docket No. 09-26)  This NOI was required by S. 602, t...

Photo credit:White House photographer Pete Souza In a move that underscores the US’s need for radical economic policies and philosophical change (yes, we can), President Obama and his team of financial wizards are calling for fees on the airwaves used by wireless carriers in the US. The White ...

Black people (so demanding!) weren't satisfied with one protest of the New York Post and the paper's shitty non-apology for Sean Delonas' racist chimp cartoon. What's behind this? Lots of history! The brief backstory: The Post is a right wing rag and has always been pretty well hated by New York's b...

Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Watercooler Talk Biggest Loser fans, this one is for you. I don't watch the show. I hope the contestants get as healthy as they need to be but I don't really want to watch a reality show where people lose weight. But I kinda wish I had seen last night's ep...