In a rather long-winded story published by the WSJ tonight this week, a handful of new facts have been revealed about Apple’s purported iSlate/iTablet/iPad. You know, the one that’s supposed to be announced next Wednesday in San Francisco. I’ll save you the trouble of reading the whole thing because we’ve mostly covered it all on …
“The Simpsons Movie” airs on FX at 6 p.m.
David Blaine Explains How He Held His Breath For 17 mins
Is Blaine our era’s Houdini? Did you know that Blaine is a hypochondriac?
Techland Roundup: The Daily Dose
Friday, Jan. 22, 2010
Today in Techland: Lev struck Twitter gold with a pretty-darn-geeky Tweet meme, Steve liked didn’t really mind saw Legion, and both Peter and Lev got schooled by an 11 year-old while playing Halo 3.
Here’s what else going on in nerd news around the Web:
For Anyone Who Ever Attended Middle School. The trailer …
Watch As Lil Poison (he’s 11) Wallops Techland In Halo 3
On Wednesday, Lev and I had the esteemed privilege of hosting Lil Poison aka Victor De Leon III in the Techland game room aka the empty office we commandeered without telling anyone else. Believe it or not, Lil Poison is the youngest professional gamer and he’s even in the Guinness Book of World Records. Actually, he’s in the …
A Message from Outer Space
Today, Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer has tweeted where no man has tweeted before.
Until now, NASA astronauts were emailing their tweets to ground support where personnel would help them post to their Twitter accounts. Astronauts on the International Space Station were offered a software upgrade this week that gave them …
Oh Holy Hudson, The Plane’s For Sale? Your Complete Auction Scrapbook
Some assembly required.
We all remember the hours we spent staring at the soggy aircraft bobbing in the water when US Airways Airbus 320 went down in the Hudson River after the infamous bird strike. And then of course, there was the media sainthood of Captain Sully, whose face is still gracing billboards here in Midtown NYC.
(More …
Video: Joe Kittinger’s 102,800 ft Descent
I’m on a Red Bull Stratos kick today, so I’m trying to find out everything I can about Joe Kittinger’s record breaking free fall that Felix Baumgartner will attempt to break later this year. Here’s video from Kittinger’s jump.
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Here’s the original article about Kittinger’s record …
“Hope For Haiti” Telethon: Where to Watch
In an effort to raise more funds for the relief effort in Haiti, unstoppable entertainment forces MTV and George Clooney have teamed up for tonight’s telethon, “Hope For Haiti,” that airs at 8 p.m. (ET). The campaign started accepting donations at noon (ET) today. Donations will support the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, the United Nations …
Legion Review: Humanity’s Moody, Low-Tech Last Stand
Old. School.
That’s what I found myself thinking, marveling at the retro pulse of Legion, right around the time that some critic behind me sighed – deliberately loud – and mumbled: “What a preposterous premise.” I shot him a dirty look (I’ll make up my own mind, thank you very much), he returned the favor, and there you …
The Techland Show: The Lil’ Poison Edition
Peter and I got beat at Halo 3 by an 11-year-old Wednesday. 10-0, 10-0. So that was good. That was really good.
I played him on Snowbound. Snowbound is where I live, man. Snowbound is my house. I got beat in my house.
So this week Peter and I talk about that experience. And some other experiences, including our pre-Apple Tablet …
Hashtag Porn: Twitter’s Geekiest Moments
Joe Hill — of Heart-Shaped Box fame, and various other fames (including imminent Horns fame) — has started on an epic meme on Twitter, hashtag #mygeekpeak. The theme being, in the words of the founder, “where you cop to your geekiest moment ever. If it isn’t a li’l embarrassing you aren’t trying”
Hill’s opening sally — “at 13, I …