Some of my favorites include this car, this methane-powered rocket engine, this weird blood-type conversion device, this snowstorm, this self-erasing paper, this bendable optical fiber, and this widget, which fires a GPS tracking device at fleeing vehicles.
We picked the iPhone as Invention of the Year. (Were we wrong?) …
I’m in L.A. for DARPA’s Cannonball Run-style robot race, an attempt to simulate in machines the ineffable human emotion we know as “road rage.” TG Daily has excellent video of some of the bot-crunching action.
Anyway, I’m too busy and important to think clever thoughts about the incredibly costly and complicated slapfight going on …
That’s the news: he’s got a contract for a series, according to TV Week. Here’s the pitch:
“Dollhouse” stars Dushku as Echo, one of a group of secret agents living in a futuristic dorm. Each has the ability to be imprinted with custom personalities and abilities for special assignments. When they return, their newly acquired
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There are very few things printed on paper that give me the same sense of wild, borderline-creepy anticipation as a new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume. You probably know the basic premise: (writer) Alan Moore and (artist) Kevin O’Neill assemble a cast of heros out of 19th and (early) 20th Century literature (Captain Nemo, Alan …
A couple of outlets are reporting that the WHOIS database is on the chopping block, over privacy and administrative concerns. (That’s the public database where you can go to see who registered what Web domain, where they live, their hair color, etc.) Which seems like a shame. Sure, WHOIS is where spammers go to gorge themselves on free …
Man, I’d love to know how the meeting went down that put Timur Bekmambetov in charge of Wanted, due out next spring, starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and Scot-of-the-moment James McAvoy, who is in every single movie released in 2007.
Not that I think it’s a bad idea. Bekmambetov is the Russian action-auteur behind the beguiling, …
But the site is pretty slick. I just poked my head into the beta for Hulu, the big corporate-type video site that will carry content from NBC and Fox. It is in fact, as advertised, crawling with clips and full episodes from 30 Rock, SNL, the Simpsons, etc. And Hulu has absorbed the First Lesson of YouTube, which is: allow embedding, or …
I have Leopard. Have had for a few days now. But I also have a colossal deadline hanging over me, in the form of Time‘s Best Inventions issue. So I’ll plan on running another in my “The Last Review” series next week. Meantime I’ll perform the most important service a blogger can serve: linking to the roundups of the reviews. Apple 2.0 …
There isn’t much I can say that will add to the basic facts of the story, as reported by, oh, let’s say, the New York Times:
The two companies said on Wednesday that Microsoft would pay $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. The investment values Facebook, which is three and a half years old and will bring in about $150
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Will Smith one-man show I Am Legend is one of three movies I’m really really excited about in the next couple of months. (The other two are — obvs — Beowulf and The Golden Compass.) I Am Legend has a new trailer up, which gives us a glimpse of the heretofore-merely-speculated-about bad guys, the vaguely vampire-like infected.
Plus …
I’m facing a massive deadline here at Nerd World Heavy Industries, also known as Time magazine, and I’m running low on ways to procrastinate. My drinky-bird desk toy can only do so much. So if anybody out there wants a round of Scrabulous on Facebook, consider the gauntlet thrown.
The BAFTA Video Game Awards! They’re the British Oscars. Of video games. BAFTA stands for “British Academy of Film and Television Arts.” Oooo, was Jade Raymond wearing Stella McCartney? (For some reason that was the only fashion designer I could think of.)
Short version, they went absolutely insane over Wii Sports. If you’re curious …
