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 …
Rumor: Rorschach To Play Sinestro In Upcoming Green Lantern Flick
It’s one thing to cast Ryan Reynolds for the upcoming Green Lantern movie but the possibility of bringing Jackie Earle Haley to lead the charge against the emerald green do-gooders leaves us rather giddy. At the moment, Haley is only intrigued by the idea but hasn’t officially signed on to be Hal Jordan’s former mentor and current …
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:
“Each cell is filled with a jammable slurry.”
Mmmmm … jammable slurry …
(Via io9)
More things I want
Sonos, which is one of my most favoritist companies ever, just announced a new thing. And I want it.
The Star Trek XI Gag Reel
I’m just one of those people for whom gag reels are automatically funny:
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 …
GTA IV: Inherent Vice City
Writing about the Grand Theft Auto video games for the Time 100 issue, I unpersuasively argued the following semi-flippant point: the Houser brothers who write and create these games are the spiritual successors to Balzac and Twain and Wolfe. They are societal super-reporters, stuffing the gaming experience with detailed observations …
The Tech Industry and the Tablet: A Sick Love Story
Back in the day there used to be this thing called Comdex. It was a huge technology trade show that happened in Las Vegas in November. Every year all the tech journalists would go out there, walk the show floor all day, file their stories at midnight, then go out and lose money at Binion’s and expense blue curacao drinks at Steven …
Now That’s Abridged!
First Impressions of Google Wave
This is very brief, because I’m rapidly closing a piece about my first impressions of Wave for the magazine, which is a whole different process. So I’m not going to do a list of features. You probably know them anyway. For a more thorough introduction, try Lifehacker’s walkthrough.
My main impression is this: it’s much, much less like …
Ninja Nuisance Can No Longer Be Ignored
Yesterday a Brooklyn man was attacked by a neighbor wielding a samurai sword. The man apparently escaped with cuts on his head and hands, despite a chorus of onlookers chanting “finish him, finish him!”
This is hardly an isolated incident. Ninja attacks are on the rise.
