Last weekend I was supposed to be doing something, and while I was supposed to be doing it I was actually playing GeoDefense. Specifically I was playing Level 13 (out of 14) in the Hard group of levels.
It’s called Twister. It’s shaped sort of like the funnel of a tornado. The little tagline you get before you play it is “I don’t …
I feel like the current catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is establishing THE model for how we globally experience and respond to disasters.
Namely, we Twitter the hell out of them and map them with Google Earth. The government is no longer the bottleneck for disseminating large-scale catastrophic events. The emergency …
Ah, armor: accessory of choice for the unsuperpowered. Herewith our picks for the best ever.
Bonus question: all else being equal, which suit would win a battle royal? I’m going with Iron Man. But I don’t like the look of that Warhammer stuff.
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I have no idea how long this will stay up, but it’s quite watchable, despite being shot in amateur unsteady-cam. Almost makes me wonder if it’s a deliberate leak. Apparently this is not a Cloverfield prequel …
Today a quiet but interesting change occurred. ICANN, the organization that manages Web addresses, opened up the first top-level domains (you know, like .com and .org and such) that include non-Roman characters.
So far there are only three, and they’re all in Arabic — they’re country-code domains for Egypt (مصر), Saudi Arabia …
I want you all to know that the headline for this piece was supposed to include the word MILF, but that was deemed inappropriate for the family-oriented website we’re trying to run here. I explained to them that it stands for Mom I’d Like to Friend — you know, like on Facebook! But that cut no ice. Man,
When I was a kid I would sometimes buy those pulpy old science fiction novels you come across in second-hand bookstores. I wasn’t on some hipstery pulp nostalgia trip — I don’t think stuff like that was even cool yet. It was just that we didn’t have the Internet, so you couldn’t order stuff off of Amazon, and we didn’t have a ton of …
I don’t think “trove” is too strong a word to describe the large number of Iron Man 2 toys contained within the box you see on the screen before you.
Had I begotten a boy-child, I would take these home and use them to curry favor with same. But as things stand I have a girl-child, with whom Iron Man 2 toys cut zero ice. Therefore I …
I think it was John Wayne who once remarked, ‘you never really know a man till you’ve seen his bar.’ Or maybe that was just me talking in a John Wayne voice. If so it was a pretty good John Wayne voice.
My point is, your bookmark bar boils crap down to the bare essentials. To the extent that you are what you surf, the bar is who you …
War, what is it good for? Sexy sexy weapons with exploding tungsten rods absolutely nothing.
Now that the U.S. and Russia have completely solved the problem of nuclear proliferation, with no possibility that the world will ever be destroyed by loose-nuke-wielding terrorists, conventional weapons are making a comeback. Screw that …
So last weekend I was at this books festival in Los Angeles. Wait, it gets better.
I was on a panel with two exceptionally interesting writers, Aimee Bender and Victor LaValle, the whole thing being run by the brilliant Scott Timberg. The idea was that we were all writers who wrote literary fiction with fantasy bits in it, or maybe …
Quirk Books, publisher of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, has announced another foray into the field of classic literature-classic horror mashups. The victim? Modernist titan James Joyce. In September Quirk will release A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manticore.
According to Quirk’s fall catalog, the book will follow the life of a …