The Daily Dose
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
The new Spidey: Columbia Pictures president Matt Tolmach told The Hollywood Repoter that upcoming Spider-Man reboot would “look, feel and smell different from the three films starring Tobey Maguire,” meaning the studio is out to separate the …
In Which Freddy Krueger Tells Us About Serial Killers and Makeup Removal
Freddy Krueger is one of those indelible movie monsters – an iconic boogeyman for the ages, instantly recognizable with his black fedora, striped sweater, razor-fingered glove and melted face.
He’s a freaky sight to behold, stalking his victims through their dreams, but in the ninth big screen chapter of the Nightmare on Elm …
This Is The Guy Who Sold Gizmodo The iPhone Prototype
Brian J. Hogan, everyone. A round of applause are in order.
Hogan was the ‘finder’ of the prototype iPhone that Gray Powell mistakenly left behind at a bar in Redwood City, CA, on March 18. In a statement provided by his attorney, Hogan says he regrets not having done more to return the prototype to its rightful owner.
Microsoft Admits Courier Exists, Scraps Project
RIP Microsoft Courier, we hardly knew ye.
Gizmodo, the gadget blog that first uncovered the Courier last year, reports that Microsoft has all but scraped the project. The two-screen tablet folder was intriguing based on conceptual videos also obtained by Gizmodo, but we’ll never know for sure if any of what we saw would have made …
Jonah Hex Trailer is Full of Western Gadgets
I haven’t had a chance to catch up on Jonah Hex since Douglas has yet to publish his comics guide for this comic-based movie, so I’m not sure how well this has been adapted but I’m not really feeling it. Something about it just seems off. Is anyone else thinking about the Wild Wild West? I wish I had a horse with hand-crank gatling guns!
How I Met Your Motherboard: Tales of Early Computing
In less time than we’d probably like to imagine, there will be only a few people left on earth who remember life without the Internet. Those early computing days will be remembered as a novelty, full of 8-bit integers and pin feed paper and – oh, who could forget – the reign of Solitaire.
New blog How I Met Your Motherboard is …
AT&T To Begin Offering Micro SIM Hybrids
AT&T and Apple really threw everyone for a loop in January when they announced that the 3G iPad would be sporting a micro SIM rather than your standard SIM card that’s been around for quite some time. My own brother was wondering if he could somehow fashion the micro SIM so that it would fit into the normal SIM card slot on an iPhone, …
3G iPads Arriving Early?
Apple’s 3G iPads aren’t technically supposed to arrive until tomorrow, but it appears that some folks are getting theirs today like my brother. Lucky jerk. Anyone pre-order and receive theirs today? Send us photos!
Bare Your Bar: The Bookmark Challenge
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 …
What to Look For on Free Comic Book Day 2010
This Saturday, May 1, is Free Comic Book Day, the annual event when a couple of thousand comic book stores across the country have a bunch of special issues that they give away for free. Most of the participating stores will limit the number of freebies you can walk away with. Also, life is too short to read bad comic books. So here’s a …
Steve Jobs: ‘Flash is No Longer Necessary’ and Other Musings
I don’t know if I’ve ever read anything longer than a sentence or two from Steve Jobs, but he pulled out the big guns with a 1,653-word post on Apple.com called Thoughts on Flash.
It’s been no secret that Apple’s opted to embrace HTML5 over Flash and the Apple-versus-Flash tiff has spilled over into the public arena, most …