I’d heard about this, but I never bothered to check it out till I saw the trailer posted on io9:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUBuz2-h4Y&hl=en&fs=1&]
Apps & Web
Dungeons & Dragons x Microsoft Surface
Your DM commands you to watch this video or perish in the swamp to the east of the bog that’s west of the cottage.
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Sandeep Parikh (You Know, the Guy Who Does Legend of Neil, With Which I’m Obsessed): The Nerd World Interview
So yeah, I’m obsessed with Legend of Neil, which is an online comedy about a guy who accidentally gets projected into Legend of Zelda on the NES. He runs around fighting and doing the levels, but he’s very disaffected and just not that into collecting pieces of the Triforce or whatever. They’re really clever about sending up the manifold …
Don’t Bother Me
An unnamed publication asked me to select what I considered the 6 greatest fantasy novels of all time. Because my hunger for money and fame cannot and will never be satisfied, I agreed. Feel free to weigh in if you have thoughts.
Roomba Creators Create Robot That Is Gross and Squashy
Basically it’s an alpha version of the T-1000:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbqHERKdlK8&hl=en&fs=1&]
“Each cell is filled with a jammable slurry.”
Mmmmm … jammable slurry …
(Via io9)
The Star Trek XI Gag Reel
I’m just one of those people for whom gag reels are automatically funny:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfRjyRtlDOw&hl=en&fs=1&]
Update: it was good while it lasted.
AND ANOTHER THING, by Eoin Colfer — You Know, the Hitchhiker’s Sequel — Is Improbably Good
The Hitchhiker’s books have always been a big deal to me. My siblings and I got them early — probably because I have family in England — so I was already deep into Douglas Adams when my friends didn’t know who he was yet. It seemed like a big secret that we had all to ourselves, at least for a while.
Obviously I liked them …
Big & Tall Halloween Costume of the Year
Iain Banks: The Nerd World Interview
(Alternate headline: Iain Banks: The Other Nerd World Interview.)
If you’ve never read Iain Banks, go here and here and then come back. If you want to know what I think about Iain Banks, it’s this: he’s one of the greatest science fiction novelists working today. He’s a very funny, very dark writer who favors space opera and extreme …
‘District 9’ Banned in District 9
DISTRICT 9, Johannesburg (AP) — In the wake of its recent Nigerian ban, the film District 9 has also been banned in District 9. Citing images of the district’s alien inhabitants as “filthy, violent, cat food-eating bug-monsters,” Hive Drone Overseer Prime Martin Anderson forbid the film’s showing within the perimeter of the penned-off …
Universal Releases Details of Harry Potter-Land
It’s not really called that. It’s called “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.” I don’t know how to feel about it.
Even leaving aside the odious press-release-ese (TWWoHP “brings the stories of Harry Potter to life in a way never before imagined”? Don’t tell me what I have or haven’t imagined you bezoar-eating shill) there’s no way I …
The Lost Symbol: SO DARK THE CON OF DAN
Yesterday at 10 AM I got an e-mail saying that a copy of The Lost Symbol would be arriving momentarily, by messenger. Yesterday at 3:30 PM I finally trudged over to the Random House building, flagged down a publicity assistant, and actually got a copy. (The messenger copy eventually did show up, at 5:00.) At 9:30 last night, I filed my …