Haunted Mansion Fan Club calls for Disney boycott

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Haunted Mansion castmember's remembrance

Haunted Mansion castmember's remembrance 09/17/2004 02:50 AM
Cory Doctorow: Here's the first-person account of a summer student intern at Walt Disney World who got the killer assignment of working at the Haunted Mansion (what a dream gig!):

I hated being told I wasn’t scary. I hated being made fun of for my deep Southern accent. I hated the fact that I was a southern happy blonde with pigtails stuck in a dark damp Mansion. Then I gave it a chance. I realized I was lucky to have such a highly coveted position. I slowly let myself fall into the role and was thrilled the first time I actually scared a guest. I learned that many of my fellow cast members weren’t as rude and sarcastic as they seemed, they just really took pride in their job. And I found my spot in the Mansion crew. I was the one that lost children were taken to because I was probably the least scary. I was the one that parents turned to for an encouraging word to convince their children to try the ride. The first time a six year old boy came running out of the Mansion with a huge smile to give me a hug before getting back on the ride, I finally felt like I had a place at the Mansion.

Link (via The Disney Blog)

Haunted Mansion costume for sale

Haunted Mansion costume for sale 05/11/2004 01:58 AM
An eBay auction for a size 14 (shirt)/18 (skirt) female Haunted Mansion ride-attendant costume from Walt Disney World. Oh, to be a woman. Link

Disney's Haunted Mansion DVD sports OS X
content

Disney's Haunted Mansion DVD sports OS X
content 07/07/2004 09:25 AM
The Walt Disney Co. and InterActual on Wednesday announced that the new Disney DVD release of The Haunted Mansion is the first such title to provide enhanced bonus content for Mac OS X. Although such enhanced content on DVD movie releases is nothing new, it's often been limited to users of Windows-compatible PCs only.

Fan builds 11,000 sqft Haunted Mansion
replica

Fan builds 11,000 sqft Haunted Mansion
replica 12/02/2003 01:39 AM
This former Disney contractor turned his 11,000 sqft house into a replica of the Haunted Mansion, complete with homebrew audio-animatronics. Link (Thanks, Gary!)

Haunted Mansion-style head as a
percussion instrument

Haunted Mansion-style head as a
percussion instrument 03/31/2005 12:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: Drum|head is an interactive project by Murat Konar, a student at London's Royal College of Art. It starts with a wig-stand with a computer-projected clip of a face on it (this is the same effect used for the "singing busts," "Madame Leota" and "Little Leota" at the Haunted Mansion in they Disney parks). A piezoelectric sensor detects it when you whack the head with a stick, cueing a drum sound and a funny facial-expression animation. The video is hilarious. Link (via We Make Money Not Art)

Disney dooms self with moronic Bluetooth
boycott

Disney dooms self with moronic Bluetooth
boycott 03/28/2005 07:32 PM
Cory Doctorow: We live in a weird, temporary bubble during which it is actually possible to sell people ringtones and video and crap for their phones, because mobile phones usually come locked down and unlocking them isn't a common practice yet. So there's this temporary opportunity for media companies to bleed their customers for music and movies they already own in tiny, stripped down "mobile" versions, and any company that doesn't get in on the act now is gonna lose its chance soon, as market forces drive phones to more and more open states.

Which is why Disney is blowing its own goddamned brains out by refusing to sell any of its stuff via mobile phones' Bluetooth connections. I mean, all this crap is already available on Kazaa as MPEGs and MP3s, where anyone in the world can download them, but Disney is freaking out because they're worried that someone 10 feet away from me and I might trade our Mickey wallpaper.

They're boycotting Bluetooth until such time as Bluetooth starts to include DRM. I participate in standards efforts for DRM, and they are slow, contentious and ultimately fruitless. Which means that by the time DIsney wakes up and recognizes the future that's gnawing at its ass, the opportunity will be gone.

Dear fellow Disney shareholders, we need to get this company back on the rails before it outsmarts itself into bankruptcy.

Walt Disney Co., for one, won't allow its wireless partners to deliver any of its ringtones, video games and other content to phones with Bluetooth or infrared, another technology for direct connections between devices, until the industry adopts a more secure format to prevent unauthorized sharing and copying.

Link (Thanks, Joel!)

Purported Bin Laden Tape Calls for
Boycott (AP)

Purported Bin Laden Tape Calls for
Boycott (AP) 12/27/2004 03:50 PM
AP - In an audiotape broadcast Monday by Al-Jazeera satellite television, a man purported to be Osama bin Laden endorsed Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq and called for a boycott of next month's elections there.

Disney calls Moore furore 'stunt'

Disney calls Moore furore 'stunt' 05/06/2004 04:34 AM
Disney accuses director Michael Moore of engineering a dispute about the release of his new film.

Linux Today Founder Calls for Boycott of
Linux Today

Linux Today Founder Calls for Boycott of
Linux Today 06/04/2004 05:28 PM

"Teachers At California High School
Refuse To Act When Founder Of A
Conservative Club Is Threatened And
Harassed By Other Students -- One
Teacher Called Tim A Nazi, While Another
Described The Club As "A Bunch Of
Bigots.""

"Teachers At California High School
Refuse To Act When Founder Of A
Conservative Club Is Threatened And
Harassed By Other Students -- One
Teacher Called Tim A Nazi, While Another
Described The Club As "A Bunch Of
Bigots."" 01/01/2004 03:19 AM

Disney descendant quits the Disney Board
of Directors, and tells Eisner why

Disney descendant quits the Disney Board
of Directors, and tells Eisner why 12/02/2003 04:13 AM
Roy Disney's letter of resignation to Eisner .. email

craphound.com/roytoeisner.txt
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Disney Dream Desk PC - Disney glues Blue
Ears on PCs

Disney Dream Desk PC - Disney glues Blue
Ears on PCs 08/06/2004 04:29 AM
I4U Aug 6 2004 8:30AM GMT

"Disney descendant quits the Disney
Board of Directors, and te..."

"Disney descendant quits the Disney
Board of Directors, and te..." 12/02/2003 09:59 AM

Haunted electricity

Haunted electricity 02/16/2004 10:35 AM
While I was away at Emerging Tech, the electric company installed a special meter on our incoming line to see if the voltage is clean and sober. The guy left it there for three days. When he picked it up, he told us that he'd have to do it again because the machine broke. Coincidence? I think not....Bwahahahaha. Meanwhile, I have now thrown out my bookshelf-style stereo system because it lost all bass and the remote stopped working; the tuner can only be tuned through the remote. (Yes, I did put in new batteries. And I did get a Mac.)...

Roy Disney resigns from Disney, slams
Eisner

Roy Disney resigns from Disney, slams
Eisner 12/02/2003 01:43 AM
Roy Disney has resigned from the Disney Board of Directors, and has sent a scathing email to Michael Eisner explaining, in exorciating detail, exactly why he's leaving the company his uncle founded.

1. The failure to bring back ABC Prime Time from the ratings abyss it has been in for years and your inability to program successfully the ABC Family Channel. Both of these failures have had, and I believe will continue to have, significant adverse impact on shareholder value.

2. Your consistent micro-management of everyone around you with the resulting loss of morale throughout the Company.

3. The timidity of your investments in our theme park business. At Disney's California Adventure, Paris and now in Hong Kong, you have tried to build parks "on the cheap" and they show it and the attendance figures reflect it.

Link (Thanks, Robynne!)

"The case of the haunted Stitch"

"The case of the haunted Stitch" 03/27/2005 04:48 AM

Disney's Haunted Village

Disney's Haunted Village 08/03/2004 01:07 PM
"The Village" was the No. 1 movie over the weekend... but is it enough to break Disney's movie slump?

Osbournes flee blaze at mansion

Osbournes flee blaze at mansion 03/31/2005 03:12 AM
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne escape unhurt after a fire breaks out at their Buckinghamshire mansion.

Programmer Seeks Mansion, Yacht

Programmer Seeks Mansion, Yacht 11/06/2003 11:08 AM
Some tech companies have struggled to stay alive after the bubble burst, but don't count Microsoft among them. A site used by its employees to buy and sell stuff is chock-full of big-ticket items like sailboats and vacation homes. By Katie Dean.

Haunted house offered on eBay

Haunted house offered on eBay 01/06/2005 02:43 PM
globetechnology.com Jan 6 2005 6:47PM GMT

Haunted book shelf gimmick

Haunted book shelf gimmick 03/28/2005 04:14 AM
Cory Doctorow: This haunted book shelf gimmick uses a system of hidden levers to make the books on the shelf slide in and out of their own accord -- can be run from a switch or motion-sensor. Link

Ghost ship tee for your inner haunted
pirate

Ghost ship tee for your inner haunted
pirate 01/05/2005 03:42 AM
Cory Doctorow: This Ghost Ship tee sports a lovely line-drawing of a drifting, tattered pirate ship and a maritime tattoo-like anchor on the sleeve -- Yarrr! Link (via Preshrunk)

New Yorker punts haunted Nintendo NES

New Yorker punts haunted Nintendo NES 03/14/2005 04:39 PM
Paranormal eBay madness

Microsoft haunted by old IE security
flaw

Microsoft haunted by old IE security
flaw 06/30/2004 12:49 PM
IE vulnerability patched six years ago resurfaces in newer releases and could allow hackers to change content on Web sites.

Fan-made Maniac Mansion 256 Color Remake

Fan-made Maniac Mansion 256 Color Remake 06/07/2004 09:12 AM

The Club For Growth - The Club for
Growth Blog: DNC 'Lawyers Up' Against
the Club for Growth

The Club For Growth - The Club for
Growth Blog: DNC 'Lawyers Up' Against
the Club for Growth 08/06/2004 02:31 AM
DNC Lawyers Also Try To Stop Anti-Kerry Ads By The 'Club For Growth' From Being Played .. independent ads from this other group .. making a habit .. life

clubforgrowth.org/blog/archives/013644.php
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Unspeakable secrets in a haunted house
and cyberspace

Unspeakable secrets in a haunted house
and cyberspace 12/13/2003 07:35 PM
So in addition to the standard-issue frissons to be found here (and one of the most startling involves only a light bulb), this book also attempts a Google ...

Hearst's Opulent Mansion Survives Calif.
Quake

Hearst's Opulent Mansion Survives Calif.
Quake 12/22/2003 08:56 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 22 2003 6:32PM ET

Microsoft Works 8; Astro Boy; I Spy:
Spooky Mansion Deluxe

Microsoft Works 8; Astro Boy; I Spy:
Spooky Mansion Deluxe 08/28/2004 10:00 PM
Washington Post Aug 29 2004 2:13AM GMT

More photos from video game launch
party, Playboy mansion

More photos from video game launch
party, Playboy mansion 05/13/2004 09:24 PM
Here are the rest of the images I shot at the Playboy video game launch party on Tuesday evening, at the Playboy mansion.
Link to photo gallery, Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Free To A Good Home: A Captain Of
Industry's Rejected Mansion

Free To A Good Home: A Captain Of
Industry's Rejected Mansion 01/02/2005 05:01 AM

Those hankering for a 17,000-square-foot Spanish colonial freebie -- a 35-room mansion with wood-beamed ceilings designed in 1926 by a famous California architect -- may be in luck. By Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times

I, Robot Boycott

I, Robot Boycott 07/16/2004 01:34 AM
By the 1940s Isaac Asimov grew tired of reading endless pulp stories about masses of evil, marauding robots attempting to destroy their creators. His answer was a series of stories in which Susan Calvin, a robopsychologist, solves mysteries caused by conflicts in the Laws of Robotics, a set of ethical rules governing robot behaviour. Asimov's first collection of robot stories was titled I, Robot. Hollywood is trying to pull a fast one by licensing the title of Asimov's book for a completely unrelated movie, originally called Hardwired, about masses of evil, marauding robots attempting to destroy their creators. A hasty rewrite of the script added a few references to the Laws of Robotics and renamed some characters to match Asimov's story. There's a Susan Calvin in the film but she's just along to watch Will Smith shoot things. A petition failed to persuade 20th Century Fox to change the name of the film and now growing numbers of outraged Science Fiction fans request that people boycott the opening week of I, Robot. I plan on joining them, in an effort to put a dent the highly valued opening week revenue. If the marketing tactic makes money this time, Fox will likely use the recently licensed titles to Asimov's Foundation novels to market more unrelated films.

Boycott Apple

Boycott Apple 06/29/2004 12:21 PM

Man oh man. So here I was - getting ready to write a big post on Apple's Dashboard and it's similarity to Konfabulator - and Russell Beattie does it for me.

Thanks Russ!

As bad as Microsoft is - Apple is worse. But they're doing our R&D for us - so hey - we too can play at that game - right?

===============

Dear Independent Apple Developers,
Walk out.

It's very simple. Support your fellow developer or watch as the next application Apple copies wholesale is yours. They've done it to Adobe, they've done it to Watson, they've done it to OmniWeb and now they're doing it to Konfabulator. I'm a wanna be switcher and a Jobs-devotee and if you've been reading this weblog for any amount of time you know I normally never miss a keynote once it's available online, but this time I don't have the stomache to bother watching it. This is the biggest ripoff ever.

I think in the past I've seen some justification for Apple's infringing on third party developers. I think we've all done that - things that "should" be part of the OS and make wholistic sense, well, we'll give Apple some leeway. A menu widget or extensions to Sherlock. Okay. A web browser? Why not. Even Brent saw the practicality in adding RSS to Safari, no? RSS is getting more popular every day, it's only a matter of time before Apple and Microsoft add it in.

But copying the JavaScript-enabled Desktop Widgets? Nonononono. That's not right. I remember when I first read about Konfabulator about a year ago I was amazed at how cool the app was and how ingenious it was as well. We *all* love elegant, simple to expand solutions like Konfabulator. But vital to the Mac OS? No. Not in any respect. For Apple to copy Konfabulator like they did is just stealing. Not "Great Artist" stealing like what Jobs did at PARC, just plain outright idea theft. A common robbery. A mugging.

If I was at the WWDC tomorrow I'd walk out. Pick a time. Say Noon. Go out and stop traffic on Mission St. for 30 minutes, get the local press to cover it, maybe someone can give a call to CNN. Give Apple a black eye, they just put one of your fellow developers out of business. They want to poke fun at Redmond about copying ideas and then turn around and rip off ideas and implementations like this wholesale? It's hypocrisy at the highest level. Don't stand for it.

Pass the word.

-Russ

Scoble agrees.

And Arlo Rose has something to say about this - too.

In case it wasn't clear why I will never never never never ever produce anything for Macs again.

My initials are Marc Aaron Canter. We were the 10th Macintosh developers (back in 1984) - and all they ever did for us was lie about us, steal, cheat, try to put us out of business and.... you wonder why I feel this way?

Maybe Arlo does too.

The worst thing is - they're fucking hypocrites.

I say we all go copy and steal the entire Apple OS and make it open source.

Look at all the locked in folks who buy Macs - that's what REALLY pisses me off. There really is no alternatuve - is there?

Where's the Linux desktop alternative?

By supporting Apple by giving them money - we're all perpetuating evil (well not me - I don't buy Apple products - haven't since 1996.) These guys have no scruples.

Especially Doc and Joi and Loic and Anil and Dan Gillmor and Weinberger and Kevin Burton and other people who can make a difference. You guys GOTTA get Michael Robertson, IBM, Dell - SOMEBODY to solve this connundrum!

We know what Microsoft is gonna do. We know what's possible and what we can do. So let's map out what we can clone in 1-2-3 years (make sure it supports Indigo and everyting MS is doing), base it upon a world of open micro-content standards, present that to the public as our roadmap - and start the migration - NOW!

What if Pierre Omidyar put up $100M - $200M - fuck it - $500M - couldn't we just clone the Mac and put it out there - and give it to Dell, etc.?

That would serve them right.

So stop buying Macs - PLEASE!

It's like buying stock in Haliburton.

It's Only Rock'n'Roll (But I Boycott It)

It's Only Rock'n'Roll (But I Boycott It) 02/10/2004 10:33 AM
...The Rolling Stones released their Four Flicks DVD in Canada on an exclusive distribution basis, limiting availability of the Four Flicks DVD to only one retailer, thereby excluding HMV and all other retailers from making this product available to their consumers....HMV responded by indicating that if its consumers were not good enough to have access to the Rolling Stones new product in HMV stores, then the Rolling Stones were not worthy of having ANY of its products in HMV’s stores...HMV would now like to solicit your opinion as it decides its next steps with regards to its position...

Boycott Sapphire

Boycott Sapphire 06/16/2004 04:44 PM

Daleks boycott new Dr Who

Daleks boycott new Dr Who 07/05/2004 06:17 AM
A new BBC Dr Who series will not have any Daleks in it, because the estate of the creator of the Daleks has demanded creative control over any show that licenses the ambulatory homicidal pepper-mills.

For its part, the Terry Nation estate accused the Corporation of attempting to "ruin the brand of the Daleks". Estate representative Tim Hancock said: "We wanted the same level of control over the Daleks that we have enjoyed for the last 40 years. If the BBC wanted to re-make any of George Lucas' films, you can bet George Lucas would have something to say about it."

Link

"Boycott the Boss"

"Boycott the Boss" 08/16/2004 08:19 PM
Long Island ophthalmologist and Conservative Party candidate Marilyn O'Grady may currently be a long shot in New York's U.S Senate race, but her latest television ad isn't targeting her Democratic opponent Charles Schumer. The Associated Press reports that O'Grady is upset about Bruce Springsteen's "Vote For Change" tour and has purchased TV time to sound a few sour notes about the veteran rocker's anti-Bush fundraising efforts.

Macworld Boycott

Macworld Boycott 07/12/2004 09:12 PM
Outside Boston's convention center and many of the big hotels are several hundred Beantown tradesmen handing out bright neon-yellow leaflets. By Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac (via MyAppleMenu)

Daleks boycott Dr Who

Daleks boycott Dr Who 07/02/2004 11:26 AM
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