I didn’t go to PAX. You probably didn’t go to PAX. But there’s some amusing footage from Nerdstock up at Penny Arcade, including Jonathan Coulton singing “re: Your Brains” and the audio from Wil Wheaton’s keynote. I’m embedding below footage of the Minibosses doing what is actually a pretty wicked cover of the Halo theme, segueing into …

I always imagined my first robot would be something more along the lines of an Iron Giant scenario. But ya know, you go to war with the robot minion you have, that being, in my case, the Roomba.

I’ve been a Roomba user pretty much from day one. I’d been seeing tech demos of robots for years, and the one constant theme from one demo to …

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OK, I’m still not excited about the Speed Racer movie, but it’s getting harder to be all cool and jaded. This comes from an interview with Susan Sarandon, who I guess is playing Speed Racer’s mom. She’s talking about the newfangled camera the Wachowski brothers have:

They’re using some high def thing that comes with guards and it’s

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Because if Jane were alive, she’d be splicin’ up a storm.

This game is giving me immense pleasure. And I say that in italics, so you know it comes from here (places hands over heart). I spend weird amounts of time thinking about the Bioshock-verse. I find myself rewarding small daily achievements — brushing teeth, remaining upright, …

This via Ain’t It Cool and elsewhere:

Looks like more test footage. I would question the provenance, but the style does like authentically Blomkampian (Neill Blomkamp being the director attached to the Halo movie; and yes, I am the first person to ever use that word). And those are some expensive effects shots, and the hardware looks …

When Google bought YouTube last year for (some very large integer) dollars, everybody knew it would be so totally worth it. Why? Ads! Put ads on those videos and charge for them, son! Step three: profit.

But where exactly would those ads go? Before the videos? After? Nobody quite seemed to know. The key to making YouTube work is that it …

Apparently they’re still alive. Or at least Dave Foley is, contrary to his participation in the living death that is Celebrity Poker Showdown. If you’re curious what they’re up to, read this. Corporate synergy!

Some interesting tidbits are leaking out about the Harry Potter theme park that Universal is supposedly going to build in Florida. I hadn’t realized that Disney pondered the project and then passed on it:

Rowling’s vision supposedly was that each person would enter through the Leaky Cauldron, tap on a brick, gain access to Diagon

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It has been an honor and a pleasure serving with you. But right now I gotta go get spliced up.

Yeah, I know it’s the middle of the day.

Everybody seems to be extremely excited about WikiScanner, a nifty tool for helping people peek at who’s editing what on Wikipedia. It’s not particularly user-friendly, but it’s usable enough to have set off a lively round of Internet Gotcha. Wired has smartly crowdsourced (I feel unclean for having used that word, but whatever) this …