He is. Or didn’t we know this already? I guess it wasn’t official before. And it is now.
Good news, right? In a way it would have been cool to have Jackson do the whole series — there would have been that consistency in tone throughout all the movies. But spending that much time in Jackson’s head was starting to feel a bit …
Lengthy preview for season 3. Of. The greatest. Show on TV. By which I mean the one I like most.
Rusty’s daddy issues. Still unresolved.
Stephenie Meyer: an artist’s impression/Illustration by Anita Kunz for TIME
First things first: it is obvious that a nerd did not write the cover line on this week’s Time cover. When you see an opportunity for a good Highlander reference, do you take it? Or do you let it slip away?
Harmless fun. Nice to see some slick CGI use from Peter Berg, who’s directing Dune in 2010.
I’m serious this time, Kotaku. We’ve been here before, and I know, I know, I’ve always come crawling back. But this time I mean it. There’s no blame here. We’re just in different places right now.
Look at your front page. Look at it. Four stories about GTA IV sales in places where I don’t live (Australia, Europe, Japan and…Australia …
Sometimes I get to see movies early. The movie studios all have New York offices, and in those offices they have little plush screening rooms — baby movie theaters with nice sound and no popcorn — and sometimes they invite the press to come in and see movies early, partly in the hopes that we’ll write something about said movies, …
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s Nerd World post, entitled “Wikipedia Brown And The Case Of The Unreliable Swear-filled Encyclopedia,” will not be seen today. Before the author had a chance to write it, he mentioned the idea to someone at work, who told him B.J. Novak from The Office already did a much better version of the idea than the author …
In the Simpsons rewrite room, the biggest compliment you can give to a joke is to call it “Swartzweldian.” Meaning, in the style of legendary Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder. Meaning (to me) uniquely dumb and smart at the same time. Meaning, great.
John Swartzwelder wrote fifty-nine episodes of The Simpsons, including such …
INT. LUCAS RANCH – SCREENING ROOM – DAY (1998)
As John Williams’ classic closing credits theme plays, the lights go up in George Lucas’ private screening room. Our heroes have done it. The fanboys have seen “The Phantom Menace.”
FANBOY #1: What the hell was that?
FANBOY #2: Midi-chlorians? Midi-chlorians!? What — the force is …
I am once again on leave from Time for a few weeks to finish up a book I’m working on. (Do not ever sell a book. A bunch of maniacs will come after you, tear a Word file off your hard drive, and print out like thousands of copies. They claim they can do this because I “deposited” their “check.” Whatever.)
So I will be fobbing off a lot …
An e-mail containing the most astounding news just surfaced in my inbox, still dripping wet from the great oceanic Interweb. Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., you know who he is, has a new novel out this September. It’s called Anathem. Below, lovingly hand-transcribed, is the catalog copy:
Since childhood, Raz
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