Truly, J.R.R. Tolkien is the Tupac Shakur of the literary world. His son Christopher has once again raided the fell barrow where his corpse resides and found still another unpublished manuscript there, entitled The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. It goes on sale today.
That sounded sarcastic. The new book is definitely a legitimate, …
G.I. Joe. At last the remake Delta Force has so long deserved:
District 9. By Neill Blomkamp, the man who should be making Halo. A wonderful-looking long-form version of his great Alive in Joburg:
April 30th, 6:35 pm. Crowded C train into Brooklyn. I finish my umpteenth round of Wurdle, failing once again to make a high score, and conclude that my former self is more intelligent than my present self. An inevitable consequence of the aging process. I drop my iPhone into my (external) jacket pocket. Two stops later I’m off …
Charles Ardai is nerd royalty by any reasonable standard. He founded Juno in the 1990s. He’s married to Naomi Novik. Hasn’t he done enough?
Apparently not. Charles now runs a press called Hard Case Crime, which publishes old-school pulp fiction. Mostly crime stuff, duh. But it has come to Charles’s attention that the two-fisted …
Cool iPhone app of the day: Simplify Music 2.0. Download it to your iPhone ($2.99—worth it!) and then go to Simplify Media‘s website, register and download the software for Mac, PC or Linux. Now you can stream all your tunes to your iPhone, wherever you are. Doesn’t matter if you’re on Wifi, 3G or pokey old Edge: it works.
I just …
Annoyed by March Madness? Baffled by Fantasy Football? Hate sports of all kinds? Then here’s a fun pastime for you and your ilk: a Summer Movie Box Office Fantasy Draft! But hurry – you don’t have much time!
The game is about using your Box Office predicting skills to select which summer movies will earn the most money. Then, …
For years one of the fundamental questions facing any tech reporter was about cyberwarfare. Did it in fact exist? Was anybody actually cyberwarfighting? Other than disaffected Chinese teenagers? Or did we just sort of want them to, because it would be cool?
When American forces in Iraq wanted to lure members of
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I was excited to see Moon. Moody, cerebral thriller set on hyper-realistic one-man lunar base. Starring Sam Rockwell, apparently all by himself. It’s Cast Away meets Solaris! Except maybe good!
My excitement was slightly tempered when I found out that the director, Duncan Jones, is David Bowie’s son, because presumably if you’re David …
I have a think-piece in the magazine this week in which I think thoughts about Star Trek. Kind of a mental shake-down in preparation for the reboot. Fun fact: this marks the very first time Ro Laren’s name has appeared in Time magazine.
In the piece I invoke the TNG episode “Cause and Effect,” which is my all-time favorite Star Trek …
Some notes from a newbie Twitterer:
1. It is fun to twitter @ other people, but it’s only fun for you and the person you’re twittering @. To all third parties, it is boring
2. It adds one more link to the chain of things I do to avoid working (checking work e-mail, checking blog comments, checking home e-mail, checking …
There’s an interesting interview over at Wired with Neil Gaiman talking about his current run writing Batman. Apparently DC decided to kill Batman, wait awhile, then reboot the whole franchise. Much as they did with Superman in the 1980′s. Back then, they had Alan Moore do the honors. The result was “Whatever Happened to the Man of …
Just in case you’re curious, I’ll do it for you. Here are the places where I said (or strongly implied) that I would never Twitter ever: here, here, here, here, here and here.
Sometimes your job makes you do things you didn’t think you’d have to do. I said I didn’t like Twitter. I never said I wasn’t a hypocrite.
Hypotwit. …
