6 posts and columns on wizard

Viral Video: I Finally Get the Taiwan Treatment — Paintballing the CrunchFund Wizard

in Media on September 7, 2011 at 1:16 pm PT

I cannot express my delight at finally getting to appear in a CGI news video by Next Media Animation, in a segment about the CrunchFund controversy.
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Viral Video: Scary Potter!

in News on June 8, 2010 at 8:15 am PT

The newest trailer for the latest in the long-running movie series of the boy-who-lived wizard is finally showing just how dark magic can get. In the trailer for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1”–the book it is based on has been split into two parts–things are looking bleak for Harry, Hermione and Ron, who are now very much grown up, as creepy, face-deprived Voldemort steps up his game. Yipes!

New Mozilla Email Is Easier to Use, But Not Easy Enough

in Personal Technology on January 27, 2010 at 6:04 pm PT

Thunderbird 3 is a significant improvement over earlier versions, with some interesting new features. But all the techie rough edges still haven’t been sanded off.

A Windows to Help You Forget

in Personal Technology on October 7, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Walter S. Mossberg calls Windows 7 a boost to productivity and a pleasure to use — Microsoft’s best operating system yet.

BoomTown Decodes the Zuckerberg Terms of Service My-Bad Memo (Now With 10 Percent More "So Very Sorrys!")

in News on February 18, 2009 at 2:21 am PT

Under cover of darkness last night, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on the social-networking site’s blog that it would “return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.” Oh, this is just too good to resist. Therefore, BoomTown shall not tarry in our ongoing job of busting the chops of the young Facebook leader, whose minions have actually–and I am not joking here–given him the nickname: The Wizard. Well, the Wizard obviously had to pull back the curtain last night and show some serious mea culpa to the people, before they got out the pitchforks. Here’s a translation of Zuckerberg’s message.
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Harry Potter and the Half-True Trailers

in News on August 13, 2008 at 1:21 am PT

Last week, BoomTown posted on the amazing number of Joker impression videos related to the hit Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” that were popping up all over the Web. Next up? Well, it seems the honor will be going to Harry Potter knockoffs and tributes, due to the upcoming sixth movie in the series about the boy wizard, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”