"Amazon has effectively told publishers that if they wish to sell POD books on Amazon, they must use Amazon as the POD printer. Small/self publishers are unsurprisingly feeling bullied."

A blogger has noted that Target is selling t-shirts bundled with games from the Experimental Gameplay Project, which began as a grad student project at Carnegie Mellon. I think this is an interesting use of the retail channel for distributing games.

John Darnielle listens to an old Minneapolis punk album and laments the commodification of domain space of spammers.

Damn, the amazing magazine Punk Planet is joining Stay Free! on that great coffee table in the sky. It makes me really sad to see these indie magazines fold.

I didn't realize there were enough .pdf magazines to merit a portal devoted to the projects. I guess they're like podcasts for print designers and 'zinesters, or maybe it's just a German thing.

Chris Anderson reports on the financial collapse of IPA, a distributor of mid-level independent magazines.

Jette discusses the local success of Mike Judge's film Idiocracy after its distribution was quashed by FOX.

"Fox is doing zero marketing for the movie — no trailers, posters, television spots or even press kits for media outlets." Conspiracy theories are flying around Austin about Mike Judge's latest picture.

This blog-like site has features about movies that won't be in wide distribution and capsule reviews of forgotten chestnuts.