I don’t know if there’s anything nerdy in Venice. Though all that half-ruined masonry does remind me a bit of Gears of War. Anyway, that’s where I’ll be next week. Posting will be intermittent-to-nonexistent.
Except for Matt, of course. Matt’s going to be huge next week. A bit unfair, making him blog solo right when he’s starting out, …
My name’s Matt Selman. I write for The Simpsons. Well, I used to. (Strike!) Time.com has awesomely offered me a gig co-blogging on Nerd World. The other guy, Lev Grossman, seems pretty good at it so far. Lev is an actual journalist. He’s intelligent and funny and drinks four big glasses of wine at expense-account dinners. So why …
Matt will be co-blogging with me from hereon out. He’s very nice and smart and has actually done something with his life, namely working on The Simpsons for like forever. He’s in IMDB and has Emmies and everything. Please give him a warm Nerd World welcome! I don’t know what that means. I had wine with lunch, I’m going to go lie down.
YouTube pulled Sturmgeist89′s account, but it lives on in Google’s cache. Incredibly disturbing.
Pretend I’m a huge idiot. I’ll make it easy for you.
Here’s what I get. In the past two weeks, Google has announced two very similar initiatives: a new applications development environment for social networks, and a new applications development environment for cell phones. Obviously, I’m not a developer, so I’m not in a position to …
Dawn is the coldest time in the Mojave Desert. Dawn is also really, really damn early. It was at dawn that I rolled into the Southern California Logistics Airport, a deactivated Air Force base in Victorville, Calif., an hour and a half east of L.A. This was the site of the DARPA Urban Challenge. Why did they start the damn thing at dawn? …
Some of my favorites include this car, this methane-powered rocket engine, this weird blood-type conversion device, this snowstorm, this self-erasing paper, this bendable optical fiber, and this widget, which fires a GPS tracking device at fleeing vehicles.
We picked the iPhone as Invention of the Year. (Were we wrong?) …
I’m in L.A. for DARPA’s Cannonball Run-style robot race, an attempt to simulate in machines the ineffable human emotion we know as “road rage.” TG Daily has excellent video of some of the bot-crunching action.
Anyway, I’m too busy and important to think clever thoughts about the incredibly costly and complicated slapfight going on …
That’s the news: he’s got a contract for a series, according to TV Week. Here’s the pitch:
“Dollhouse” stars Dushku as Echo, one of a group of secret agents living in a futuristic dorm. Each has the ability to be imprinted with custom personalities and abilities for special assignments. When they return, their newly acquired
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There are very few things printed on paper that give me the same sense of wild, borderline-creepy anticipation as a new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume. You probably know the basic premise: (writer) Alan Moore and (artist) Kevin O’Neill assemble a cast of heros out of 19th and (early) 20th Century literature (Captain Nemo, Alan …
A couple of outlets are reporting that the WHOIS database is on the chopping block, over privacy and administrative concerns. (That’s the public database where you can go to see who registered what Web domain, where they live, their hair color, etc.) Which seems like a shame. Sure, WHOIS is where spammers go to gorge themselves on free …
Man, I’d love to know how the meeting went down that put Timur Bekmambetov in charge of Wanted, due out next spring, starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and Scot-of-the-moment James McAvoy, who is in every single movie released in 2007.
Not that I think it’s a bad idea. Bekmambetov is the Russian action-auteur behind the beguiling, …
