I’m not super into straight-up repostings of other people’s repostings of links, but I am sufficiently skeeved by an article in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine that I can’t help it.
It’s a piece about a practice, apparently (the evidence is compelling but anecdotal) increasingly common in China: somebody gets caught doing …
Light a candle and make a wish: the PS2’s officially 10 years old. Though North America and the rest of the world would get it a bit later, the Playstation 2 debuted to much fanfare in Japan on March 5th in the year 2000. Everybody knows the hits of the Playstation Decade–Grand Theft Auto, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons …
I’ve been thinking about writing this note for a long time now. For more than a month, actually. Ever since I wrote up our Freeze Frame feature, about the deep, intoxicating horizons of Avatar.
Back in early February, in response to my commentary about the film’s 3D achievements, commenter grape_crush posted the following: …
Thursday, Mar. 4, 2010
Today in Techland: It’s Thumbs Up Thursday, kiddies. Today, Mike liked Thor, Steve gushed over Children of Men in the Techland Screening Room, and Peter really loved the claymation version of Evil Dead. And there you have it, but first…
Badass Owls: …
Remember when Sam Raimi was Sam Raimi?
(via MTV)
This takes me back to the olden days of 2003 when I was still rockin’ out with my Palm Pilot.
Google announced Gesture Search late yesterday as a new addition to Google Labs for Android devices running v2.0 and higher. It’s a pretty straightforward app but it has to be open to work. Sort of defeats the purpose if you ask …
Ask anyone what they think of Sony today and chances are you won’t get a positive response. The company that once dominated the consumer electronics sector has fallen on hard times in recent years. Every facet of the business is playing catch up to companies like Microsoft, Samsung and Apple. What went wrong?
I fondly remember my …
Disney keeps rolling out images from the new TRON via facebook. The new one gives us our first glimpse of Tron, the arcade game, in Flynn’s Arcade. Fun stuff – getting more excited by the day!
James Cameron – the guy who is so committed to his art that he almost died making The Abyss – seems more than a little miffed at Hollywood. Or maybe just annoyed. Or baffled? (Check out our full Cameron interview from December)
Our colleagues at TIME sat down with the director to talk about Avatar, on the eve of the Oscars. They …
