Continuing a breakdown of interesting (to me) nerdy tidbits about the “new comic book store” plot of The Simpsons episode, “Husbands and Knives.”
Let’s talk about Jack Black. We’ve had a lot of amazing guest stars on The Simpsons. But Jack Black deserves a special place in the pantheon, for going above and beyond the call of …
Sunday, February 10, at 8 PM, Fox is re-running the comic bookiest Simpsons episode ever to have my name on it, a show called “Husbands and Knives.” The plot: the Springfield kids are sick of Comic Book Guy’s abuse, but he’s got the only store in town. Until — a new comic book store opens across the street, run by a NICE comic book …
This week for Time I wrote a lengthy piece about Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Yahoo. Originally I wrote it as a kind of fictional apocalyptic scenario, as a document recovered from a year in the hypothetical future (via a counterfactual-time-travel widget in development with Google labs) after the deal had gone through, and there was …
Something is wrong with the permissions on my hard drive, such that Word is no longer allowed to save files to it. In spite of this I am keeping an unsaved Word document open, with my to do list in it, because that is who I am and how I live, every day. Word then tries to autosave this file every 10 minutes and squawks when it can’t. …
RULE #1: THE PRIME DIRECTIVE – It is unacceptable to display any book in a public space of your home if you have not read it. Therefore, to be placed on Matt Selman’s living room bookshelves, a book must have been read cover to cover, every word, by Matt Selman. If you are in the home of Matt Selman and see a book on the living room …
Mark Wahlberg is apparently getting ready to make a Max Payne movie. I don’t know how to reconcile this information with accepted models of physics and probability, but you can’t argue with the Internet: it’s always right. And in other white-boy rapper video game movie news, Eminem apparently almost made a Grand Theft Auto movie.
I …
Excepts from the Ocala, Florida tax fraud and conspiracy trial of Wesley Trent Snipes:
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: The defense would like to call to the stand… Blade.
PROSECUTOR: Objection. Blade is not a real person, but rather Mr. Snipes in sunglasses and fake vampire teeth.
JUDGE: Overruled. I’ll allow it.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Mr.
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By now you’ve heard the news: Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. But have you managed to get excited about it? No? Not yet? Come on: it would be such a satisfying end to their When-Harry-Met-Sally flirtation. Microsoft’s got a massive war chest — Ballmer recently boasted that he was going to start acquiring 20 companies …
Quick plug for the 2007 Game of the Year Critics poll, a first-of-its-kind (as far as I know) project where they made lots of game critics (including me) pick their favorite games of the year using a point-allotment system, then totaled up all the points, then made a kind of meta-list out of all that data. The results are here.
No huge …
There are a few sticking points to making Ender’s Game — The Video Game a truly satisfying experience.
1) Hooking up the world’s Xbox 360s, Playstation 3′s and Wii’s to an actual functioning robotic space armada which really slaughters billions of actual living alien beings for real as you play unknowingly from your home.
2) Hiding …
Plenty of sources have been reporting that Ender’s Game is going to be a video game. Which, you know, of course. It says ‘game’ right there in the title. But it kind of makes you wonder why it hasn’t happened already. The book was published 23 years ago and won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, as did (inexplicably) its (horrible) sequel …
Okay, everyone. Settle down. I know you’re all bummed out about the recent series of planet-wide catastrophes. The plagues, the meteor, the tidal waves, the nuclear wars, the other, pointier meteor… What can I say? If you’ve never seen giant piles of corpses, now you have. Big time. Long story short, humanity is teetering on the …
