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Thursday Morning Omnipost

By Lev Grossman | @leverus | September 24, 2009 | +

I have to run and get on a train, and my new iPhone has chosen this moment to apparently take its own life, maybe because it couldn’t face an eternity of running Wurdle over and over again. I will vent my frustration on you with a hasty and incoherent blog post.

Not that the world isn’t, on its own, fundamentally incoherent. Evidence: Fast and Furious 4 “helmer” Justin Lin is apparently going to remake Highlander. Meanwhile they’re making sequels to Daredevil and Ghost Rider. And apparently David Cronenberg is remaking his own movie, The Fly. I don’t see any obvious explanation for any of this.

And if that isn’t enough, Microsoft appears to be in danger of actually producing a useful consumer technology product. This is a demo of its new dual-screen tablet project, Courier, a project apparently belonging to Xbox wunderkind J Allard:

This can’t be awesome. It must be lame. If only I could figure out why … or how …

Related Topics: courier, highlander, incoherence, j allard, wurdle, Gadgets, Microsoft, Smartphones

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  • doubleang

    Incoherent blog response:
    I went and looked for Wurdle on my G1 after reading your last post. I found an app called “Wordup!” that is identical to Wurdle. It has destroyed my productivity. Oh, also, I found I have to disable words under 4 letters, because some of those acronyms and other nonsense were driving me insane.

    I think I want a Courier….. but can it make phone calls? Skype app perhaps?

  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    What color is the spine?

  • byron12

    WTF — there’s no way to bring BSG into this. Damn!

  • http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

    There are none so blind as those who will not see, grasshopper.

  • Kemper

    Remaking Highlander? Sequels to Daredevil and Ghost Rider? Why that’s as bad as if someone decided to make a new big screen version of Battlestar Galactica with no connnection to the show. Why, Bryan Singer, why?

  • dreinn

    “What color is the spine?” You are a genius, Church.

  • masurix

    I agree that the Bryan Singer thing is mindblowing. Doesn’t he have anything better to do? I mean, BSG has been done recently and done well. What is he hoping to accomplish?

  • dennitzio

    Whenever I click the little WordPress “remember me” box I think something significant is going to happen. It seems like it should be, I mean I’m asking a whole website to remember me.

    Oh, and I’m only going to watch the BSG movie if Daggett is in it. That’s why I never watched the reboot.

  • anon76

    That objection to watching the reboot makes exactly as much sense as Lev’s.

  • dennitzio

    Thanks! I’ll take that as a compliment.

  • niobe23

    Daredevil sequel or reboot? The latter worked for Hulk. Daredevil is one of my favorite characters. Just have BMB script it. And no Ben Affleck please.

  • Rorschach

    I actually wake up early and play Wurdle in bed instead of sleep. Can I get some sort of nerd trophy?

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