Wired is doing a really good job of covering this truly shocking incident. Apparently a week ago a group of robotic cannons — capable of acquiring targets and reloading themselves — was being tested in a line on a firing range in South Africa. One unit unexpectedly swiveled too far to the left and opened [...]
I couldn’t quite muster the energy to be upset, or even surprised, when Apple released a software update earlier this fall that crushed iPhones which users had modified in unauthorized ways. I mean, I feel bad for anybody whose phone got bricked, but honestly: what did they think was going to happen? Apple is very [...]
This hypnotic artifact, marbled with rich thick veins of nerdiness, comes to us from YouTube via Ain’t It Cool. “I’ll just fill my pipe.”
No time for proper post today. Too much to do. But:
I know you guys are all out there rolling around in your Orange Boxes and haven’t thought about Halo 3 in weeks. But I’m not done yet. Yeah, I know, a real games journalist would have whipped the Brutes on legendary by now, but I just got to the part where the Flood shows up. [...]
More casting news for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek: The Previous Generation. John Cho from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle will play Sulu, and Simon Pegg — Simon Pegg! — will be Scotty.
I can’t wait to see this movie! Except now I feel like I already have. Click for a lengthy trailer for The Golden Compass. For a beautiful woman, Nicole Kidman sure has an ugly monkey.
Every morning when I get to work the first thing I do is mash down the COMMAND key with my left thumb (we’re in Firefox/Mac-land here) and click on each of the websites on my toolbar. That opens each site in a different tab, the end result being a nice fat windowful of twenty tabs [...]
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I can’t believe this is actually happening, but it looks like there’s a feature-length straight-to-DVD Futurama product coming for the holidays:
According to Alan Tudyk, aka Wash, who seems to be having the best year among the Firefly alums, it’s just possible they might greenlight a straight-to-DVD sequel to Serenity, on the strength of DVD sales of the first one. Nobody jinx this.
