I’m fresh off the Webcast for the Googlephone. (There’s an on-demand version here for real die-hard fans of grainy video of pasty white dudes.) Cue Darth Vader sound sample: impressive.
The form factor isn’t in the same universe as the iPhone’s, which when you really think about it is still pretty breathtaking. And I’ll be curious …
Tasting notes are what they give you while you’re drinking fancy wines and acting like you can tell them apart. I actually do this quite a bit, because I enjoy it and because I like pretending I’m the fat guy in Sideways.
I’m currently in possession of the two new iPods, the new Nano and the new Touch. Here are a few tasting notes. …
Yes, Eoin Colfer is going to write a 6th Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book. Adams’ widow hand-picked him, apparently. He’s best known as the author of the Artemis Fowl books, which I’ve never read, so I can’t do much to handicap the odds of his work being any odd. “For years I have been finishing this incredible story in my head and …
I’ve been playing this game pretty much non-stop for the past two weeks. Which pretty much tells you what you need to know, since I’m not a completist: I’ll bail on a game pronto if I’m bored.
I don’t really disagree with Tycho’s mixed assessment, but the flaws he names just don’t bug me as much as they seemed to bug him. Just knowing …
Vampires are big business. From HBO’s True Blood to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books to the fifty million copy-selling straight-to-video Lost Boys sequel, the vampire bubble is nowhere near bursting. Give it another month, then sell.
I love vampire movies. What do I love about them? The chilling suspense? The sexy violence? …
Funny. But I still don’t want to use Vista.
This past Tuesday the countdown clock at the39clues.com stopped counting down, and the site went live. The 39 Clues is a new series for 8-12-year olds from Scholastic, the company’s first major launch since the end of Harry Potter. Elsewhere on this website I have taken a whack at it.
I felt bad about doing so, because Scholastic had …
It’s always in the last place you look.
Re: the whole will-it won’t-it question about the Large Hadron Collider, an e-mail from commenter dennitzio reminded me that Larry Niven has a short story called “The Hole Man” about something like this. It’s a murder mystery, where the murder weapon is a quantum black hole that some demented …
Laura Miller — who may be even more of a Stephenson superfan than I am — weighs in here at the L.A. Times. The Wall Street Journal reviewed it today. Both raves. The only negative piece I’ve seen is in the Washington Post, where Michael Dirda compared it to Harold Brodkey’s Runaway Soul, which I think is totally unfair, and anyway …
The other day — some other day, I forget which, not this one — io9 pointed me to this documentary by/about Alan Moore:
That’s the first installment. For the rest click through to io9. The production values are amazingly cheesy, even for 1987, but the force of his ultimate-genius-freak personality pushes through.
It’s just him …
PUCK
Eugene Milton Judd
Overcompensating dwarf
Will punch you in nuts
SASQUATCH
Big, strong and fuzzy
More than just an orange Hulk
Talks smart not dumb
NORTHSTAR
First gay superguy
Uses power to speed-date
Wear super condom!
AURORA
So sexy, could have
Any man, but only wants
Her gay twin brother
GUARDIAN
Canada hero
Wears …
And I thought he didn’t work there anymore.
