Robert Jordan has died.
I’m hip-deep in inventions that need to be sorted-through for the Best Inventions issue. So I figured I’d post a few and wait for comments, thus harnessing the awesome power of user-generated content.
Some things I am nerd enough for, and some things I am not. The million-fold wrath of Halo Nation notwithstanding, I am actually nerd enough to play Halo 3. I am not really nerd enough to watch Star Trek: World Enough and Time, a fan-produced episode that’s part of the New Voyages series, which is [...]
Every year I’m called upon to help pull together a list of the best inventions of the year for Time. This is partly because advertisers like to advertise opposite happy uplifting technology coverage. But it’s also hella interesting.
I repeat, the Iron Man trailer is up. Hooray for Shellhead. It looks good enough as far as it goes — I have pretty much an infinite appetite for wry Robert Downey Jr. humor — though there seems to be some muddling of the origin story (no shrapnel near the heart?) And I thought they [...]
This headline is exactly the same as the headline on the article I’m linking to. You’d think I would’ve tried to come up with a different, new headline. You thought wrong.
It’s because of this ‘R-rated’ trailer, which comes on a lot stronger than the original trailer, which made me wonder if I could really sit through 2 hours of Polar Express-style mo-capped Vikings.
It’s a timeless arc. We’ve seen it play out 100 times. (Is that about right? 100? How many keynotes has Jobs given?) Some solid incremental updates — stubby new Nanos, with hard drives, new colors, video…ooo, ringtones, that’s a no-brainer…
Steven Lisberger, who directed Tron, has another movie in the works. The bad news: it’s not a Tron sequel. The good news: it’s not a sequel to Animalympics either.
I was going to blow off this Slashdot story, but then, as if of their own accord, my fingers twitched over to this blog, which explained that there’s a U.S. nuclear submarine with a top-secret propeller, and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth got a pretty good look at it. Then I clicked on the actual Virtual Earth [...]
