Extremely longtime readers of this blog — of which there might not actually be any — will know that nothing gets me more excited than breakthroughs in squid science. Judge then how excited I was when this footage surfaced:
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(Actually it surfaced in 2007, but the …
I haven’t been shy in the past about my excessive ardor for the webcomic The Order of the Stick. I bring it up again now (my ardor that is) because for the first time I’m in possession of a couple of hard-copy editions of the comic.
Quick summary: The Order of the Stick is a webcomic about a band of D&D characters. Lately they’ve been …
I don’t watch horror movies. But I do watch clips of the good bits from horror movies, when helpful sites like io9 post them. (I never know if that’s a zero or a letter o in there. Well, today it’s a letter o.) Yesterday they posted this clip from The Host. Just watch that first epic 40-second shot! I don’t understand why all movies …
I know that what you’re really excited about is finding out which one I like better, Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero World Tour. (It’s Rock Band 2.)
But as it happens I got an early copy of Carrie Fisher’s memoir Wishful Drinking, which is coming out in early December, and it’s actually pretty entertaining — it’s very sort of wry and …
Listen up ya heels! Dis is da Blob talkin, and youse gonna listen — or I’ll bust ya right in chops! Look, I may be an evil mutant, but I aint no chump. I know that George W. Bush was worse for this country than Magneto and Mister Sinister put together. This immovable mutant is an Obama man, all the way — Barack is the real homo
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It’s just what I wanted! How did they know?
Seriously, are you guys following the trail of de-cloaked internal Microsoft e-mails that’s coming out of this class-action lawsuit over the whole Vista Capable thing? Slashdot keeps picking up the news stories — for example, here, here, here and here. They just keep on coming. I live in …
It’s not that big a deal. He probably speaks all the time. But if you want to watch him speak to somebody from Time, namely my friend Gilbert, check it out:
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If you’re mainly interested in Star Trek stuff, jump ahead to 4:56.
I will not insult you by embedding a crappy version of it here. Go watch it on Apple.
My take: this trailer does not suck, but neither does it rule out the possibility of the movie sucking. I was pretty meh about the opening bit — if you want to show me that Kirk is some disaffected Rebel Without a Cause kind of guy, OK, yeah, I’m …
Numerous people have e-mailed me this Variety article about how HBO has greenlit the Songs of Ice and Fire mini-series. I thought this had already happened, a while back, but apparently it had been some other color light before. Now it’s green. Good stuff. My only complaint is that they didn’t call George R.R. Martin “The American …
We’re in the middle of some kind of weird video game heptathlon. I was most of the way through Dead Space when I picked up LittleBigPlanet, then I dropped that for Fallout 3, then I bailed on that for Resistance 2. Which is so over for me now that I have Gears of War 2.
The mayor of Batman, a city in southeastern Turkey which has the same name as the DC Comics superhero, is suing director Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties from mega-grosser The Dark Knight.
Experts predict this will unleash an onslaught of copycat lawsuits, currently waiting in the wings:
Beverly Hills, California vs.
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I had a chance to sit down with Dave Gibbons, the man who drew Watchmen. The interview isn’t here, it’s here.
Before I talked to him I didn’t realize how important it was for the genesis of Watchmen that Gibbons and Alan Moore were English. Apparently at that time superhero comics came from America, and that was it. New York City was …