AT&T is well aware of their subpar level of service in Manhattan and San Francisco. That much is true. They even released an app earlier this week giving users the ability to “Mark the Spot” (iTunes Link) where service has basically crapped out. The problem with the app is that if you live in either city the chances of you being able …
The Top 10 Gadgets of 2009
Lev and I picked our top 10 gadgets of the year for Time a couple weeks back and then we picked our top 10 gadgets of the year for Techland shortly thereafter. It turns out that both lists are identical. Weird, right? Or maybe you’ve already read about this…
I was told that I had to make a video for this list and, well, I had no …
Q&A: Comic Writer Devin Grayson on Writing for New MMO
Comic book fans may know Devin Grayson from her work on Batman: Gotham Knights and Nightwing, but after a two-year hiatus, she’s decided to lend her writing skills to a new medium — a massively multiplayer online game.
Grayson just signed on to work on Kung Foo!, a free-to-play, martial arts-themed MMO based on a popular Chinese TV …
Apple Tablet To Be Announced In February, Says Analyst
Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner is citing “checks” into Apple’s supply chain that indicate production of the purported tablet will begin to ramp up in February with a March or April launch. He goes on to say that Apple will churn out 1 million tablets per month. Despite previous rumors that the tablet would have an OLED screen, …
Ratings Scam Triggers Apple To Scrub ~1% of App Store
Following a brief investigation triggered by the iPhone photography blog iPhoneography, Apple has banished Chinese developer Molinker and its estimated 1000 iPhone apps. The majority of Molinker’s applications were pitiful copycats of existing popular apps, but that’s not what triggered the amateur sleuthing from an Internet friend …
DCU 2010: The Return of Bruce Wayne
DC is motoring right along with their 2010 announcements this week and today we learn that Bruce Wayne will be making his triumphant return to Gotham in a six-part miniseries penned by Grant Morrison. If you weren’t following Final Crisis or even Battle for the Cowl then you probably wouldn’t have picked up on the fact that Bruce …
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Trailer Is Up
My predilection for urban sorcery is well known. But I am declaring the jury “still out” on this one.
The problem I have with movies like this is that they can’t seem to decide whether they’re young adult movies — i.e. cute and ultimately inoffensive — or actual grown-up treatments of sorcery — genuinely frightening and …
Best of the Decade: Comics
FULL LIST: Techland’s 10 Best Comics of the Decade
Top 10 Comics of the Decade. A difficult task, the top ten list, as some of my fellow Techlanders (Techlandites? Techlandians?) have already remarked. I’m a nerd, of course, so at first I tried to find some quantifiable metrics to determine The Ten. But when sales numbers and movie …
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My Life as a “Science Fetishist”
The dictionary defines a fetish as; An abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation.
I know that there are sexual connotations to the definition, but that, in relation to the laws of physics, is another article entirely!
I’m a science fetishist.
Look—it’s not like I want to perform an illicit act involving …
More Changes For Marvel: Chairman David Maisel to Step Down
Following the announcement earlier this fall that corporate powerhouse Disney was to acquire comic book company Marvel Studios comes news that chairman David Maisel will step down once the $4 billion merger is complete.
Named president of the Marvel team in 2004, Maisel became the force behind the company’s film productions, …
The Top 10 Games of 2009
Peter and I chose our top 10 games of the year. For Time. Then we chose them for Techland. Amazingly they turned out to be the exact same list both times. Here it is.
Or anyway here’s the first 40% of it. The whole list is over at Time.com, for some reason. I don’t want to talk about it.
One good thing about this year’s list: it …