There are very few things printed on paper that give me the same sense of wild, borderline-creepy anticipation as a new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume. You probably know the basic premise: (writer) Alan Moore and (artist) Kevin O’Neill assemble a cast of heros out of 19th and (early) 20th Century literature (Captain Nemo, Alan [...]
A couple of outlets are reporting that the WHOIS database is on the chopping block, over privacy and administrative concerns. (That’s the public database where you can go to see who registered what Web domain, where they live, their hair color, etc.) Which seems like a shame. Sure, WHOIS is where spammers go to gorge [...]
Man, I’d love to know how the meeting went down that put Timur Bekmambetov in charge of Wanted, due out next spring, starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and Scot-of-the-moment James McAvoy, who is in every single movie released in 2007.
But the site is pretty slick. I just poked my head into the beta for Hulu, the big corporate-type video site that will carry content from NBC and Fox. It is in fact, as advertised, crawling with clips and full episodes from 30 Rock, SNL, the Simpsons, etc. And Hulu has absorbed the First Lesson [...]
I have Leopard. Have had for a few days now. But I also have a colossal deadline hanging over me, in the form of Time‘s Best Inventions issue. So I’ll plan on running another in my “The Last Review” series next week. Meantime I’ll perform the most important service a blogger can serve: linking to [...]
There isn’t much I can say that will add to the basic facts of the story, as reported by, oh, let’s say, the New York Times:
Will Smith one-man show I Am Legend is one of three movies I’m really really excited about in the next couple of months. (The other two are — obvs — Beowulf and The Golden Compass.) I Am Legend has a new trailer up, which gives us a glimpse of the heretofore-merely-speculated-about bad guys, the vaguely [...]
I’m facing a massive deadline here at Nerd World Heavy Industries, also known as Time magazine, and I’m running low on ways to procrastinate. My drinky-bird desk toy can only do so much. So if anybody out there wants a round of Scrabulous on Facebook, consider the gauntlet thrown.
The BAFTA Video Game Awards! They’re the British Oscars. Of video games. BAFTA stands for “British Academy of Film and Television Arts.” Oooo, was Jade Raymond wearing Stella McCartney? (For some reason that was the only fashion designer I could think of.)
You couldn’t pay me to ride in it, but speaking as somebody who couldn’t make a pile of old car parts out of a pile of car parts, this seems pretty cool:
Time’s Gina Elliott was present at Carnegie Hall for Rowling’s appearance there. The full transcript is up at The Leaky Cauldron:
