The redoubtable Harry Knowles drops the leak-hammer on the upcoming Thor movie. To wit:
That about says it all. It’s 70 percent bigger than Jupiter, which makes it the largest planet ever found, but it’s only 3/4 as massive. “That means the alien planet is about as dense as balsa wood or cork, said [Georgi] Mandushev, who is part of a planet-hunting team known as the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey.” [...]
Sorry about the long absence. I was off in a leafy suburb of Seattle. I leave it to your imaginations what I was doing there. Cough, Bungie, cough.
I hope this doesn’t turn into a monstrous iPhonelike media bubble. Everybody writing about it, myself included, should be forced to take several deep calming breaths before setting fingertip to keyboard. But yeah, Google might possibly be making a phone.
Well, I missed Comic-Con. And E3. At this exact moment I’m missing QuakeCon in Texas, BlizzCon in Anaheim (featuring actor/comedian Jay Mohr!), and that BlackHat thing in Vegas. I will shortly miss Gen Con and PAX. Seems like you could spend the whole summer jumping seamlessly from Con to Con and never once breathe the [...]
Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff (which by the way, where is he now? still jazzy, somewhere?) said it best: movie theater owners just don’t understand. This story (from the Washington Post, spotted via Slashdot) isn’t surprising, just appalling: a 19-year-old woman in a movie theater takes a 20-second clip of Transformers to show her [...]
It sounds like J.J. Abrams may have been out filming his shaky-cam monster movie on the Lower East Side. In case you’ve been enveloped by a moving cloud of Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, here’s the poster (swiped from Ain’t It Cool).
