March 2005 Archives
Here's a neat bit of St. Louis history I never knew: This is the town where the Man of Steel
first met the printed page.
This was World Color Printing, born in St. Louis in 1904 as the official printer for the World's Fair. In the first half of the twentieth century, World Color printed the majority of comic books sold in America; debut issues of Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and many others first landed on paper here. The landmark has been demolished.
According to Pete, the first episode of the BBC's new Doctor Who series has escaped into the wild as a torrent.
Now, I would never advocate for people to go out and download a good BitTorrent client, if they don't already have one they like. I wouldn't even consider suggesting that they start poking around torrent guide scites for files with innocuous names like rose1.avi. And I certainly wouldn't ask them to download and watch such a file if it were to exist. Because that would be wrong.
Even if I were to perform any of these actions, I certainly wouldn't start burning copies to pass around to friends.
As a side note, if it weren't cheesy, it wouldn't be Doctor Who, now would it? Hypothetically, of course.
