In this week’s Time Joel Stein profiles Adam Brody, the actor who made nerds hip on a TV show — The O.C. — that no actual nerd ever actually watched. We learn, among other things, that Brody isn’t really all that nerdy in real life:
– Ed Norton is Bruce Banner in the new Hulk flick. Sure, that could work.
It was either that subject line or ‘Where’s LaBeouf?’ I think we’ll all agree that I chose wisely.
That subject line is supposed to be a “play” on the novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, a searing midcentury indictment of American corporate culture. I’m just clever as clever today.
Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. I wrote an obituary-slash-tribute for him here. You can almost smell the smoke rising from the ears of all the literary journalists racing to get their Vonnegut eulogies up online. Very sad, though at the same time it’s hard to imagine a writer better-prepared to face death than Vonnegut.
What is it with Sony having good ideas lately? It’s getting harder to make fun of them. Apparently they’re having so much success with their Folding@Home project (which uses spare processing power on PS3′s to do computation-intensive protein folding simulations for the good of mankind) that Sony is exploring the idea of selling some of [...]
They don’t. They just really, really don’t. (Both via Slashdot.)
It began as a side-dish, practically a condiment, to one of my favorite webcomics, The Order of the Stick. But it’s become so much more. I’ll admit it: I have an Erfworld thing.
Webby nominees are here.
I had no idea they were going back to the Hulk well, for more Hulk-water (I should trademark that word now: Hulk-water). More details on the new Hulk movie are at Ain’t It Cool News. Apparently they’re calling it The Incredible Hulk this time, and it’s a 2008 release. My God. It’s as if Ang [...]
