There comes a time when a blogger must cease to write about nerdish things, and he must go out into the world and do them. For me that time has come.
I’m pretty sure it’s wrong to laugh at Gay Robot. I mean, I know it is. Which means there’s something wrong with me. (Not very SFW. Depends on where you W.)
This announcement — the one about Facebook partnering with a bunch of other companies that are going to make widgets — is one of those pieces of technology news that’s kinda hella boring to read about, but reflects a really interesting macro-level dynamic in the evolution of Web 2.0.
It’s official: you can never be the biggest nerd in the world. Because the Klein Four are nerdier than you.
If you have any contact with people in the film industry, you know they’re constantly desperate for ideas — what’s the next “hot” “property” they can “option,” etc. So how to explain all the fantastic SF and fantasy books that just lie around unproduced? Here are my top 10. If you’re reading this, and you’re [...]
I have a grotesquely horrible deadline right now, so everybody go watch this. It’s the trailer for The Golden Compass, based on the first volume of Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy.
William Gibson’s prescient sci-fi bestseller from the ’80s, “Neuromancer,” will get the big screen treatment from vet producer-distributor Peter Hoffman, whose own Cannes exploits go back some 25 years.
I don’t even want to see the Transformers movie. I just want to watch this trailer. Over and over again:
That’s about it. The press release says they’ll offer music in plain-old MP3 format from 12,000 music labels, which I had no idea there were even that many. The release specifically mentions EMI, which suggests — circumstantially — that EMI is the only major on board. In a way this was an inevitable development: Amazon [...]
Via Kotaku: Kia is doing a cross-promotion in Spain with Playstation 3. As part of it they’ve got a website up showing what it’s like to drive a Kia in a PS3 driving game. Except – as an astute blogger noticed – the license plate on the little virtual Kia clearly says “PGR.” It’s a [...]
Because it’s that kind of day. You know what, don’t even read this, it’s just me being annoyed.
