Nolan Vs. Selman — Part II

The exciting conclusion of 14-year-old Matt Selman’s 1986-era A Prologue to the Dark Knight. Any similarities between this and 37-year-old Christopher Nolan’s 2008-era The Dark Knight are surely not coincidental.

Sent from My iPhone…3G SUCKAAAAZZZZZ!!!

This wasn’t actually sent from my iPhone 3G. I’m waiting till I get home to sync it with my Powerbook. But I do have it. (Have = Apple has loaned me a unit for review purposes.) It’s sitting on my desk, charging up through its surprisingly weensy charger.

Now in Paper-Vision: The 4chan Guy

This week’s Time has my profile of moot, the 20-year-old founder of 4chan. I first became aware of 4chan when I failed to credit them as the creators of lolcats, and they got in touch en masse to point that out. Now I see their influence everywhere — 4chan is like a black hole, invisible [...]

Nolan Vs. Selman — Part I

Jonathan Nolan’s The Dark Knight will be relased on July 18, 2008. Matt Selman’s A Prologue to the Dark Knight was written on April 27, 1986, months away from his fifteenth birthday. Whose work is truly, “an ambitious, full-bodied crime epic of gratifying scope and moral complexity”? You be the judge.

Futurama Fans, I Give You Bender’s Game

I’m pretty sure Fox is taking these down as they come up, so if this is gone, just search YouTube. (I’m also pretty sure there’s a copyright lawyer somewhere who earns money every time somebody says that.)

The “Knowing” Trailer; also, What Ever Happened to Donnie Darko?

My Alternate History Novel

The Founding Fathers of the United States successfully develop space travel. George Washington is the first man on the Moon, and immediately asphyxiates.

Parry Gripp of Nerf Herder: The Nerd World Interview

I have not in the past been shy about the love I feel for original nerd-rockers Nerf Herder. And this is no time to start, because I am in possession of an interview with Nerf Herder frontman Parry Gripp, which we conducted via e-mail. It was originally supposed to come out to coincide with the [...]

What I Learned Today: Hitchhiker’s, Trek, Thor, Diablo III

– Dirk Gently is actually part of the Hitchhiker’s universe. I thought everybody should know that.