Jonathon Zone

Please join us. Anyone. Please? Hello?read more | digg story

Pure irony.read more | digg story

Encyclopedia Britannica is used in often case studies as a definitive example of how new technology can disrupt a business. Everything was great for the nearly 250 year old privately held company until the Internet came around and category five hurricaned on their parade.read more | digg story

The first of our colleagues to actaully finish the game is Rob Taylor, deputy editor of Xbox World 360 magazine, and below he tells us (as best he can) what it feels like to be the first person to finish GTA in the world. Lucky bastard. . .read more | digg story

In an unusual move, the Justice Department sued Fox Broadcasting Co. and another broadcaster Friday to collect $56,000 in fines for the broadcast of a raunchy reality show in 2003 that included scenes from bachelor and bachelorette parties.read more | digg story

Physicist Stephen Hawking asks Big Questions about life, the universe and everything. His talk was recorded at Cambridge, in a borrowed classroom — whose well-used blackboard happens to contain the Answer to life, the universe and everything. It’s visible in the upper-right-hand cornerread more | digg story

Photos snapped just at the right millisecond read more | digg story

World War Z is a riveting collection of various accounts from around the world. The bad zombie fiction in film or literature often ignores the human aspect of watching your neighbor turn into a brain-eating freak, but it’s the people of World War Z that make it so fascinating. And David Fincher is the perfect […]

This poor guy and the preacher had no idea the pain they were going to be forced to endure. Luckily the priest only had to deal with 5 minutes of pain… the man has a lifetime coming. read more | digg story

For weeks my boy had been begging for me to please leave him somewhere, anywhere, and let him try to figure out how to get home on his own. So on that sunny Sunday I gave him a subway map, a MetroCard, a $20 bill, and several quarters, just in case he had to make […]

Gerstmann-gate was the gaming media’s biggest scandal last year. Now, the corporate VP (Jeff Larson) allegedly responsible for Gerstmann getting fired has also been fired. CNET is cutting about 10% of its employees and eliminating Larson’s position with it. A victory of sorts for internet legions.read more | digg story

Oh no! Now all of you who claim that Wall-E is a “rip off” of Johnny 5 will get your moment in the spotlight, too! The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films have acquired the rights to remake the 1986 family classic Short Circuit.read more | digg story

Think the dollar is weak against the euro? Pit it against the funny money found in these games and you’ll be crying all the way to the check-cashing place.read more | digg story

Sales tracking group NPD has announced the results of a new gaming study, showing that 72 percent of the U.S. say they played games, online play still lagging behind offline, and an overwhelming minority owning more than one next-gen system.read more | digg story

Since the Smithsonian opened in 1981, millions of people have passed a display involving prehistoric time. Nobody ever reported anything amiss with the exhibit until 11-yr-old Kenton Stufflebeam noticed that a notation identified the Precambrian as an era. Of course, everyone knows that the Precambrian is actually a dimensionless unit of time…read more | digg […]

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An artist’s rendition of a real-life version of the Futurama cityscape. Amazing!read more | digg story

Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US. Now, Apple has ascended to the top of the charts, surpassing Wal-Mart for the first time ever, according […]

Dude. Gibson is huge.read more | digg story

Its a big week at TriggerStreet, and Dana and Evan have something entirely new to discuss: their very own #1 movie! Thats right, “21″ is a hit at the box office, but thats not the only thing worth talking about as SAG and AFTRA go their separate ways, “Fanboys” fans are protesting, and Superman has […]