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Angry Yelpers Get Illustrated, James Cameron Accused of Plagiarism

by Matthew Zuras on May 19, 2010 at 07:20 PM

image from yelp yack
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • Yelp Yack is an adorable new blog (if you care for a side of spite) by San Francisco-based illustrator Jessica Wassill. She happens to think that angry Yelp reviews are hilarious, and provides funky, hipster-y drawings to go with her selections of the best of the worst. We've seen the self-entitled, masturbatory and just plain rude reviews for our top restaurants, too, and we agree that some of these people need to be taken down a notch. Hey, lady, we also love bacon, but maybe you should wait to sit down before you start barking your order at the hostess. Check out Urlesque's interview with Wassill at the link. [From: Urlesque]
  • Plenty of people who didn't already hate James Cameron hate him even more after 'Avatar.' Call him a hack, a megalomaniac, a gimmick-riding huckster, but is he a plagiarist? Author Kelly Van claims that Cameron ripped off her unpublished book "Sheila the Warrior: The Damned" for his 'Avatar' script. Among many similarities between the texts, Van asserts that "both the film and the book have characters who fall in love." Well, then -- case closed! Gawker has the full, insane complaint if you feel like a good tickle. [From: Gawker]
  • We are very much in love with Bookbound, an external hard drive by Swedish designer Linus Berglund. The major manufacturers (we don't want to name names) try as hard as they can to put out beautiful storage devices, and so rarely do they ever achieve it. (Okay, we do love Philippe Starck's hard drives for LaCie. But, come on, that's a given.) We like Berglund's subtle camouflage with the unassuming tome -- and it doesn't look out of place on a desk. Why are those Swedes always so crafty? [From: Notcot]
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