Two datapoints for your consideration:
Digg Recovers a Stolen Xbox. A guy in Philadelphia gets back from SXSW to find that his house has been burgled and his Xbox stolen. He gets a new Xbox and receives a message via Xbox Live asking for a ransom to get his old console back. The message comes from an actual valid gamertag. The guy …
THE STAR WARS EMPEROR’S CLUB V.I.P. — VERY IMPERIAL PALPATINE
Princess Leia — Gold Slave Bikini — 7 Death Stars — 5000 Galactic Credits / hour
Princess Leia — Hoth Snowsuit — 3 Death Stars — 1000 Galactic Credits / hour
Aunt Beru — Tatooine Rags — 0 Death Stars — 5 Galactic Pennies / year
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SUPERHERO LAIR …
So you’re making Dune. Good stuff, good stuff. Epic story, sandworms, the whole environment angle. Could be a serious thing.
But listen man: you’re a long way from Friday Night Lights here. I know you did Hancock, so you’ve goofed around with some CGI, got some technical chops. But Dune is a toughie. Lot of serious fans, lot of …
The science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke has died, in Sri Lanka, at the age of 90.
As a person and as a writer he remained an enigma to the end. Part of the challenge of grappling with Clarke is the sheer size of his oeuvre: towering masterpieces like Childhood’s End, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama …
Popular Mechanics is reporting that BattleBots will be returning to ESPN, or at least to ESPN2 and ESPNU, which I don’t even know what that is — presumably it covers sports events taking place in the Underverse.
The piece has a good summary of what made the original show a beguiling but also a frustrating watch — basically the …
The Summer Movie Season is now in spitting distance, and this year’s slew of lumbering mega-movies is plodding clumsily into view. But before everyone picks apart the (presumable) goofiness of big-budget behemoths like Speed Racer and The Incredible Hulk, let’s think back to four years ago, when a tiny-yet-sublime scrap of summer movie …
I was going to link to yet another story about the semantic Web, except the phrase “semantic Web” has now been shown to induce narcolepsy in otherwise normal humans. Then I was going to post about this Heavy Metal-type cartoon that David Fincher is supposedly making, but for some reason I am unable to grasp what the hell it’s about. …
If they stop making new trailers I’ll stop blogging about them. But this is the best one yet — gives you much more of the flavor of the movie:
Christina Ricci looks good — though almost unrecognizable — in that wig, but yowr, those are some crackling Oedipal sparks between Emile Hirsch and Susan Sarandon! And also yowr, those are …
Will somebody please tell me how the Sam Hill to spell Wall*E? Wall*e? Wall-E? Wall-e?
Whatever, the new trailer is up, and it drops all that coy stuff from the teasers and plunges us deep into the Wall*everse, which is a lot bigger and richer than I first thought. We meet Wall*E’s probe-android luvva, who appears to have been designed …
Or whatever you call it when something comes out of beta and launches. Hulu is live. You know, that Web video thing that has content from Fox, NBC, Bravo, USA, and a bunch of channels you probably didn’t really know existed.
I was in the Hulu beta, so I’ve been watching shows on Hulu for months now. And I gotta say, it’s brutally good. …
In the ever-raging battle for internet eyeballs, here’s a Yahoo News headline that probably grabbed more than a few:
REAL DEATH STAR COULD STRIKE EARTH
Wow, that is a big story. An actual man-made, planet-sized, battle-station could attack planet earth, just like in Star Wars. That certainly pushes the Hilary and Obama mudwrestling …
When my daughter (age 3) wants me to shut up she says “Daddy, stop saying words!”
That’s what I want to say to the actors in the Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer, two new trailers for which are on the Web. (They are “international trailers,” which I don’t know what that means.) The movie features Emile Hirsch (who’s significantly …
