Vampires are big business. From HBO’s True Blood to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books to the fifty million copy-selling straight-to-video Lost Boys sequel, the vampire bubble is nowhere near bursting. Give it another month, then sell.
Funny. But I still don’t want to use Vista.
This past Tuesday the countdown clock at the39clues.com stopped counting down, and the site went live. The 39 Clues is a new series for 8-12-year olds from Scholastic, the company’s first major launch since the end of Harry Potter. Elsewhere on this website I have taken a whack at it. I felt bad about doing [...]
It’s always in the last place you look.
Laura Miller — who may be even more of a Stephenson superfan than I am — weighs in here at the L.A. Times. The Wall Street Journal reviewed it today. Both raves. The only negative piece I’ve seen is in the Washington Post, where Michael Dirda compared it to Harold Brodkey’s Runaway Soul, which I [...]
The other day — some other day, I forget which, not this one — io9 pointed me to this documentary by/about Alan Moore: That’s the first installment. For the rest click through to io9. The production values are amazingly cheesy, even for 1987, but the force of his ultimate-genius-freak personality pushes through. It’s just him [...]
And I thought he didn’t work there anymore.
This week, to make sure that Time was different from every other magazine and newspaper in the entire world, I wrote a piece about Spore. I love interviewing Will Wright. He sort of interviews himself. He has some kind of built-in filter that prevents him from ever saying anything uninteresting. I only had a page [...]
My work-copy of iTunes is so broken, it actually emitted that sharp, loud angry-Mac beep when I fired it up just now. But nonetheless I was able to confirm that the Dr. Horrible soundtrack is the number two-most downloaded album right now. Such is the amazing power of Whedonicity.
There’s always something cool-slash-disturbing to see whenever the I Am 8-Bit people put on a show. Basically it’s paintings inspired by 1980′s video games. For some reason they’re all really fascinated by Dig-Dug.
