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E3 2013: The Clash of the Consoles

This year's E3 was as big and bombastic as ever. A giant, 18-foot robot from EA's (Electronic Arts) upcoming Titanfall stands ominously in the lobby; Activision erected a semi-circle of giant, trailer-spewing screens around an open forum, welcoming the masses into its fold like the loving arms of St ... More >>

Meet Loot Crate, a New Hollywood Startup That Sends You Video Game Swag

Birchbox for geeks. Dollar Shave Club for techies. Gamer swag. Interested? Meet Loot Crate, a Hollywood-based startup that's a subscription service for boxes of tech and video game-themed stuff. For less than $20 a month (shipping and handling included) you get six to eight hand-picked items, like ... More >>

Microsoft Opening Venice Offices

Microsoft is coming to Venice. The company confirmed to the Weekly that it's leasing space in the beachside community, which is already home to Google offices and those of other tech companies. Here's what Microsoft's director of consumer communications told us:

Surface Tablet Crashes During Microsoft Unveiling in Hollywood

You have to love Microsoft for complicating the uncomplicated and making the computer experience a nightmare for going on two generations now. The behemoth unveiled its Surface tablet in Hollywood today and, in typical Microsuck fashion, the thing "crashed badly," according to News Photos LA. A rep ... More >>

HipSwap, Craigslist for Rich L.A. Hipsters, Will Deliver Your Used Louboutins in Pink Van With Mustache

No, that is not the tour bus for Echo Park's new ironic K-pop girl band. Somehow, it's even more perfect than that. The pink van driving around L.A. with the groovy font and the mustache -- as of this morning! -- is actually a delivery vehicle for HipSwap, the Santa Monica-based online marketplace ... More >>

Video Games as Physical Therapy? USC Uses Motion-Capture Technology to Heal the Injured

Startups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. Belinda Lange knows how to have some serious fun. A physiotherapist by training, Lange leads a group at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), which d ... More >>

Microsoft Is Poaching Engineers: With A Bacon Cart

For some reason, Microsoft seems to think that experienced software engineers are difficult to find in this down economy, so it's trying to recruit talent from the Seattle offices of Amazon, Adobe and Google. The Seattle Times reports that the battle for skilled coders is being waged with free bacon ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/14-11/18

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "At the end of 2011, the year that the gastropub finally wrestled formal dining into a bathtub to drown, we pretty much know what a good, new restaurant is going to look like." Cooks County: A Perf ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Umami Burger

Harold Goldberg's All Your Base are Belong to Us and the Cultural History of Video Games as Emotional Story of American Entrepreneurship

Screencap from Sega's Zero Wing​ "All Your Base are Belong to Us" famously circulated as an Internet meme a decade ago. Originating as a poor English translation (from Japanese) of dialogue in Sega's 1991 video game Zero Wing, the phrase has a new life as the title of Harold Goldberg's cultura ... More >>

Haiku News: Manson Goes Indie, Guns 'n' Roses Talk 'Chinese Democracy' Followup, New Sleigh Bells Video, & New Dirty Bastard?

Haiku News: Manson Goes Indie, Guns 'n' Roses Talk 'Chinese Democracy' Followup, New Sleigh Bells Video, & New Dirty Bastard?

Microsoft Conference Coming To L.A; Is Comic-Con Next?

​Score one for our embattled mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, who announced on Monday that Microsoft will be bringing its Worldwide Partner Conference to the citywide venues next year. The question is, will bagging the world's largest computer concern beef up L.A.'s chances of also catching the mu ... More >>

Pedraza vs. Macintosh: Worms in the Apple

Windows 7 Whopper: Only in Japan?

In a typically outrageous Japanese promotional campaign, Burger King Japan is offering a Godzilla-sized, seven-patty Whopper for seven days only to celebrate the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. While you won't find the Windows 7 Whopper on the menu here in America, you may just be ... More >>

Top 5 Songsmith Remixes: Fudging a Microsoft Program to Create "Music"

Songsmith, by Microsoft: a time-sucking monster One has to wonder if Microsoft knew what type of time-sucking monster they had created upon releasing Songsmith. An extension of the MySong project, the program allows even the musically inept to formulate a song and gives skilled players what the com ... More >>

Sounds From Common, Looks From Louis Verdad & Brian Lichtenberg

Remembering Onyx Proprietor John Leech

GO LA: Lewis Black, German Cinema, Sheryl Crow for the Congo, and more

Where to go in L.A., February 13-19

I WAS A GEEK BEFORE YOU WERE A GEEK

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Arrest in Homeless Slay Case Benjamin Mathew Martin, 30, was apprehended in Rancho Mirage for the gruesome death of John Robert McGraham, a homeless man who was set on fire last fall in an alley off of Third Street near Berendo Street. Meet the Bark Beetles The news about climate change's effects on ... More >>

Hot off the Grill

And CHOLO a go-go

Rappers Who'll Make You Dial for Dollars

And post-feminist pop from one-hit wonders

Microsoft Wants to Kill Your iPod, Summer Goes Pop!

Everything Counts in Large Amounts

11 secrets of swarm success

Wicked Games

The New Blacklist

Corporate America is bowing to anti-gay Christian groups’ boycott demands

Making Very Nice With Tiny Tim

Dump Bush, Er, Never Mind . . .

Google Bombs

Pass the Paddles

Our guide to the games

Shrieking in Cyberspace

Relax. Your computer’s fine. We’re only blowing billions on an overhyped terror threat

Wireless for a Week

Can a real geek PalmPilot her way into mobile cyberheaven?

Letters

Microsoft Loves You to Death

Software gives computer viruses a smooth ride

Hacking the Future

Why code crackers will lead the digital age

Down the Tubes

U.S. balks at European rule that manufacturers recycle toxic computers

Hey you with the start-ups in your eyes

Control Freak-Alt-Delete

Reading the Microsoft Findings of Fact as a riveting novel

Patently Mine

Microsoft and Amazon test new open-door policy at U.S. Patent Office

Psst . . . Wanna Pay for a Music Download??

Make Money Fa$$$t!!!

Signed, Bill G.

Y2K Ready, Set, Doh!

Microsoft's home remedy for the millennium bug: download more products

Man Against the FUD

How Eric Raymond became the ambassador for the open-source movement -- and why he hasn't quit

Your Ad Here. And Here. And Maybe Here.

Campaign2000.com

What the administration's antitrust crusade against Microsoft means for Al Gore on the stump

Aural Oligopolis

The World in a Box

Conclusion of a Three-part Series

Free Is a Four-Letter World

Suiting up the open system at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo (Second in a three-part series)

The Loneliness of Linux

The First of a Three-Part Series

The Scream of the Hard Drive, the Roar of the Fan

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