There’s always something cool-slash-disturbing to see whenever the I Am 8-Bit people put on a show. Basically it’s paintings inspired by 1980’s video games. For some reason they’re all really fascinated by Dig-Dug.

Google’s Chrome browser drops today. They’ve created a handy comic strip outlining its features so clearly that even a technology journalist can understand them. I hear Jon Favreau has already acquired the movie rights. Some screenshots are here.

Obvs I’m going to give it a spin. Google people are smart, which makes me curious what …

I’m not going to the 5th annual PAX this weekend. Instead I’m going to stay home and work on my book and monitor Robo-James’s favorite Simpsons quote thread and possibly hack away at Force Unleashed. If anybody has any information about the care and feeding and killing of bull rancors, hit me.

In conclusion, I would just like to know: …

I’m starting to feel like the video game ad is an underrated medium. Yeah, most of them are forgettable. What do you want, they’re ads. But sometimes you see one that just rips off your head and thrusts its awesomeness down your neck. I’m thinking of the “Mad World” spot for Gears of War, for example.

But check out this one. I don’t …

A couple of days ago EA Sports released Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. This would not ordinarily be a major event in my world, except that Tiger Woods did a press tour to promote it. Again: not usually a major event for me. Ordinarily I would let Time’s sports guy, Sean Gregory, handle this — it sort of falls midway between our two …

It’s common knowledge that Ian Fleming’s James Bond spy thrillers were hardly politically correct. They were packed with outdated, but probably deeply-felt, sexism, racism, and, yes, even homophobia. (Not to mention the relentlessly kick-ass sadism.) Those who haven’t opened the books in a while may assume that Fleming’s …

Here’s a video snippet of Neal Stephenson talking about his new book Anathem. It’s a Nerd World exclusive! He talks a bit about how this book relates to his other works (not at all, is the basic answer, except on a philosophical level, which I guess means no Enoch Root cameos), and its connection to the Long Now Foundation’s Millennium …

The Venture Brothers season finale dropped last night. It’s here, or at least it was at the time I posted this.

I gotta admit, I found it slightly, just slightly, unsatisfying. Maybe Venture Brothers just isn’t a big-episode show, it’s the little in-between bits and pieces that really work. When they go all epic I feel like the subtlety …

The consensus seems to be that Star Wars: The Clone Wars is very, very bad. (How could any movie with the word “Wars” twice in the title be good?) Many of our leading critics and random internet nobodies are even saying that Clone Wars is so terrible that it should mark the end of the entire Star Wars franchise. The coffin-nailing …

If I could blog about the Venture Brothers every day, I would. But I can’t. Apparently you’re supposed to blog about different stuff every day. Whatever. I didn’t blog about TVB yesterday, so I’m all clear.

Plus if I post these, then the last 20 minutes I spent watching Venture Brothers clips magically becomes

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G4 is running what I assume is a series of spots called the Will Wright Minute, in which Will Wright says some random cool thing. Obviously this is, deep in its black withered heart, a promo for Spore. But what he says is pretty cool: