First "Hobbit" edition to go under the hammer
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - One of the first editions of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic "The Hobbit" is expected to fetch over 30,000 pounds ($58,560) when it goes up for auction next month.
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Mark your calendar: November 22. That's the day, barring something unforseen, that OPML 2.0 will move from a draft to a final frozen spec. If you plan to use OPML 2.0, or you're already using it, please set aside a few hours to carefully review the spec, between now and the end of September, or at the latest early October, to be sure it makes sense to you.  We're doing this very slowly and carefully so people will believe in the quality of this spec. If you don't think it's a good spec, now is the time to say why. Speak now or forever hold your peace. You may not like the format, that's not the issue now -- it's the spec we're trying to finalize.  Thanks for your help!
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Invent a standard. Collect a check. That's what Blu-ray is about.
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This week, heirs of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of the âLord of the Ringsâ trilogy and âThe Hobbit,â and a group of publishers filed a lawsuit demanding at least $150 million from New Line Cinema.
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A first look at the much-delayed film's poster.
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Tycho:  I was in a guild with the guy who started FigurePrints, and when he extended coupons to the old crew I snapped them up and gave them as Christmas presents.  None of my characters ever reached the highest echelons of Azerothian Fashion, so it seemed like they were better invested in Gabriel and Keek, who poured night after night into Battlegrounds and Active Volcanoes fighting dragons and whatnot. The coupons I have described are difficult to secure, only available in random drawings at random intervals, or if by some twist of fate you happen to have been guildmates with a cunning entrepreneur.  It's really a way to ennoble the lost years you plowed into that game.  It's the sort of thing you'd think a person would appreciate.
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Tycho:  I don't know why I get my hopes up reading shit about "broken street dates" online, I'm perpetually disappointed by the results.  I got a game on the actual ship date five years ago, and it's made me into some kind of Goddamned optimist.  There are scattered reports that people have picked them up, and you may invest your time in this way if you are desperate, but I apologize for wasting your time.  (CW)TB
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Blog: Is version 3 of the GNU General Public License asking for too much?
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An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers announced Monday.
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First distributed by courier in 1645, Sweden's Post-och Inrikes Tidningar makes the leap to online-only publication. In Furthermore.
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After months of bitter legal  wrangling, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema and  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc have agreed to make two movies  based on the book "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Is it a mere coincidence? Or is the first week of January really jinxed as far as new releases are concerned?
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Tycho: Entitled "Birds Are Weird," it includes every comic from the year 2003 in addition to commentary, pertinent newsposts, the occasional travelogue, and so forth.We've also put every book that's currently out into a single bundle, which is to say four books, and then slashed the price. Or reduced it, at any rate. It's an unbelievable value, etc. (CW)TB
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A 3ft tall &#39;hobbit&#39; discovered on a remote Indonesian island has raised the extraordinary possibility that our human species might not be alone on Earth.
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A copy of the first trade edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", the first book in the seven-volume series, fetched 19,700 pounds ($40,000) at auction on Thursday, Christie's said.
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Arts & entertainment: US bookshops see salvoes exchanged between new versions of Tolstoy's epic.
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Now that the final version of the GNU General Public Licence version 3 has been released, the in-depth analysis of its implications can begin.  Two of the first commentaries to be published have come from the legal world, and there are doubtless many more being prepared for purely internal use within software companies wondering whether to adopt the new licence.  But important as both the legal and commercial details are, I believe the true significance of the GPLv3 lies elsewhere.