Nerd World Book Club: Anathem, Parts 6-10; or, The iPhone Is a Jeejah

In an effort to shed the very last of our regular readers, I am pressing on with a near-liveblog of my reading of Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. (This follows up on the last installment for Parts 1-5.) I have entered a stage familiar to me from other Stephenson books, a state of deep immersion where I [...]

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They’re Making a Sequel to Tron. Also to 300. It’s Not Called 301

According to Ain’t It Cool, there’s further evidence that a Tron sequel is actually happening. Apparently the costume designer for 300 and Watchmen is on board. Maybe Flynn will get trapped inside an iPod and have to escape from its restrictive DRM. For nostalgia’s sake, here’s the trailer for the original. Apparently some test footage [...]