James Cameron – the guy who is so committed to his art that he almost died making The Abyss – seems more than a little miffed at Hollywood. Or maybe just annoyed. Or baffled? (Check out our full Cameron interview from December)
Our colleagues at TIME sat down with the director to talk about Avatar, on the eve of the Oscars. They …
You’ll either love them or you won’t; there can be no middle ground. The $60 Moshi Moshi retro telephone handsets plug into your cell phone for slightly less cumbersome conversations and give your workspace a splash of nostalgic style, courtesy of French designer David Turpin.
Moshi Moshi Collection [NativeUnion.com]
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There are signs of life from Aperture Science. Valve released on update for its incredibly compelling puzzle game Portal yesterday. This has set off a mad scramble through one of those weird augmented-reality scavenger hunts, starting with radios in the game releasing screechy audio transmissions, which were decodable into a series of …
It may have cost them years of their lives, but I feel pretty confident that OK Go will once again ride the giant viral sandworm with this video. I think my personal favorite moment is the smashed TV at 3:39.
The making-of doc is below, in four …
Is it? If so, why? I reviewed the Behold II back in November and it was, well, not great.
I was going to title this post The Techland Show: The Sell-out Traffic Whore episode. But wait — isn’t that every episode?
Apparently not. We’ve been instructed to “punch up” the show and give it more “viral” potential by organizing it into a list of the week’s top five topics. There — happy now? Isn’t this what you wanted? You did …
Wow. That’s some riveting stuff, but I feel like I’ve seen this before. If everyone would stop with the iPhone-like UI that’d be great. Here’s another one to bore you this fine morning.
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I show you how to download and setup MESS, the “Multi Emulator Super System” with over 400 different system emulators, load up your favorite classic video games, and copy everything to a USB stick or memory card for use on just about any PC in the world. It’s pocketable nostalgia at it’s finest: easy, cheap, and plentiful.
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Damn it. Now I wish I had made more time to cruise on over to Plantronics HQ in Santa Cruz last month. Damn it all to hell.
Google What? With Wave, Voice and Buzz, it seems Google is trying to be all things to all Internet people. But how well do ‘You’ know what these products do?
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By now, you’ve probably seen this strange video of Kirsten Dunst running around Tokyo clad in a tutu and offensive Japanese stereotypes.
Yes, I’m sure Mary Jane lovin’, anime fantisizin’, middle aged men everywhere are having the best day of their lives, but please excuse me as I have a WTF? moment.
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The other day I read an interview with Terri Tatchell, the co-writer of District 9, in which she mentioned that she was thinking of adapting a short film for her next project. The film is called Terminus. It’s on YouTube.
At the time I thought to myself, is this a post? I flipped a mental coin. I missed the catch and the coin rolled …
