Quick plug for the 2007 Game of the Year Critics poll, a first-of-its-kind (as far as I know) project where they made lots of game critics (including me) pick their favorite games of the year using a point-allotment system, then totaled up all the points, then made a kind of meta-list out of all that [...]
There are a few sticking points to making Ender’s Game — The Video Game a truly satisfying experience.
Plenty of sources have been reporting that Ender’s Game is going to be a video game. Which, you know, of course. It says ‘game’ right there in the title. But it kind of makes you wonder why it hasn’t happened already. The book was published 23 years ago and won both the Hugo and Nebula [...]
Okay, everyone. Settle down. I know you’re all bummed out about the recent series of planet-wide catastrophes. The plagues, the meteor, the tidal waves, the nuclear wars, the other, pointier meteor… What can I say? If you’ve never seen giant piles of corpses, now you have. Big time. Long story short, humanity is teetering on [...]
I have not one but three horrific deadlines to meet today, which is why I was awake at one o’clock this morning exploring whether or not it’s possible to read a book and shave your head at the same time. (It is! Sort of.) On the bright side, it’s the 50th anniversary of the Lego [...]
Tim Long, a fellow writer on The Simpsons, has joined me in a desperate cause: slowing the rate at which soon-to-become-obsolete magazines become obsolete. That is, he also trying to prop up a dying medium with the miracle cure of ONLINE CONTENT. Here is Tim Long’s witty, why-didn’t-I-think-of-that piece for VanityFair.com.
Steve Carell plays Michael Scott playing Agent 86! This is a much longer and more substantial trailer than the teaser that was already out there. It does not, however, resolve the question of whether the movie will actually be funny.
Well, pwns is a little strong. But watch this video in which Tufte — who lectures and writes about information and design — leads the audience through the major design achievements and failings of the Jesusphone. Sample nitpick: the persistence of a thick, opaque bottom bar in iPhone’s web browser — if it were transparent [...]
Virgin Galactic is showing off its design for SpaceShipTwo, which a press release describes as “nearly 60% complete.” No big surprises here — it has the same basic profile and uses the same kind of launch vehicle as SpaceShipOne. I would’ve hoped they at least made some breakthroughs on the clever-ship-names front, but not yet, [...]
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From MSNBC (and I’m sure by now many other places) comes the astounding news that Heath Ledger has died at the age of 28 in an apartment in New York City. At this very sad and unexpected moment we should pause to salute his contributions to nerd cinema. While not even remotely nerdy himself, he [...]
