Nunc Scio

Politics. Media. Culture. Now you know.

Month: January, 2008

Call of Duty 4 is 2007′s best-selling game

The receipts have been tallied, and COD 4 is the best-selling game of 2007. The first-person shooter smashed sales records, clearing a staggering seven million units since its debut in November. Lest anyone accuse me of being disloyal to my first love, Halo,  I should point out that the further adventures of the Master Chief [...]

Anonymous puts out another communique

The web-collective (don’t worry, I won’t call you ‘hackers’ anymore) Anonymous has posted up another message for the Church of Scientology: Interesting that they’re trying to translate on online protest into a real space event. Will anyone show up to protest on February 10? Will Anonymous accompany the protest with more online attacks? I guess [...]

Secret settings for Star Trek viral site

JJ Abrams must be supporting a good portion of the website design industry, what with his fanatical yen for viral websites. If you’ve been to the official Star Trek movie site, you’ve probably noticed a little blinky red dot next to ‘Under Construction’ that takes you to NCC-1701.com, a site that features four webcams of [...]

Day one of the digitial war on Scientology: not so good.

The Threat Level Blog has some interesting stuff of the newly declared battle against Scientology by hacker-org Anonymous. And as campaigns go, this one could be going better. The core of the digital assault revolves around Distributed Denial of Service (DD0S) attacks against the Scientology website, posting leaked documents around the web, and up-voting anti-Scientology [...]

Mitt Romney receives secret messages from Aliens, Jesus, and/or the Ghost of Ronald Reagan

Check out this vid from last night’s Republican debate: Right before Romey answers, you can clearly hear someone- or something- whisper ‘Raised Taxes’. NBC has reviewed all of its cameras and has determined the offending sussuration did not originate from either of the moderators or any of the candidates. If I owned a Theremin, I’d [...]

An index of what ticks off the Incredible Hulk

OK, technically it’s a list of everything that pisses off David Banner, thereby causing him to become the Hulk in the 1978-82 TV series. But I don’t like to split hairs. Neither does the Hulk. The list itself is revelatory.

Hackers put Scientology on notice

A group of hackers calling themselves ‘Anonymous’ have decided to take down the Church of Scientology. And they made this announcement in a reasonably epic Internet vid: That’s pretty badass, if somewhat histrionic. The interesting thing here is that Anonymous isn’t taking exception so much with Scientology’s loopy religious views, but rather their attempt to [...]