Monday, July 19, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
The Walking Dead Set Visit [MTV Splash Page]
Amazon Turns 15: A Brief History Of Online Shopping [TIME]
For 72 hours I will allow everyone, following or not, access to my Twitter account. [Voice Eternal]
Apple Responds To …
Sorry, Universal. Fans haven’t forgotten The Last Airbender quite yet.
Given his most recent film making catastrophe, M. Night Shyamalan’s name in connection to a film is more kiss of death than prompt to pay $12.50. Listen to this audience’s reaction to his involvement in upcoming Devil before a showing of Inception this weekend. You …
To correct its iPhone 4 antenna issue (or lack thereof, according to Apple), the company is doling out free bumpers to every customer who buys an iphone 4 before September 30. But for a quick, oh-so cute fix, try Antennaids. For $5, these Band-Aid like stickers will buffer that nasty reception death grip with just a hint of hip …
A free trailer for the new Buffy The Vampire Slayer motion comic series is available on iTunes. (Can’t embed, sorry.) The series, the first episode of which is rumored to debut sometime later today, follows the Season 8 Buffy comic from Dark Horse which continues where the series finale of the show left off. The series will chronicle the …
To coincide with the upcoming release of Red Faction Armageddon, videogame maker THQ and Syfy have teamed up for a screen adaptation of the franchise. Red Faction: Origins, a two-hour film set to air in March 2011, is set sometime between the events of Red Faction Guerilla and Red Faction. Written by Andrew Kreisberg (Warehouse 13) and …
The Netflix instant streaming service is coming to Canada, the company announced Monday.
This fall, Netflix is expected to make its first international expansion as it offers its Watch Instantly package to Canadians. Though initially, the service will be available in English only, the company has made its intent to open up the service …
An evil Vader-like Jobs defeats Bill Gates in a light saber duel before force choking the daylight out of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen and brainwashing consumers into being tethered to AT&T. Happy Monday, everybody.
Friday, July 16, 2010 – Happy Free Bumper Day!
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the world:
When It’s Safe To Hit The Bathroom During Inception [NY Mag]
Apple Posts Smartphone Antenna Performance Page [Engadget]
DA Withdraws iPhone 4 Warrant, Returns Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen’s Possessions [ …
Turns out geekiness is so not next to Godliness, or so says the Westboro Baptist Church.
The church will be protesting outside of this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego next week in an attempt to stop the nation’s nerds from worshiping superheros. (Because that’s what we do, apparently.) Led by Reverend Fred Phelps, the congregation will …
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
More Green Lantern Pics Arrive [Slash Film]
Apple Doesn’t Plan To Issue A Recall Friday, Person Familiar Says [Business Week]
Five Robots To Watch [NYT]
Taiwan’s MSI Gunning To Be The HTC Of Tablets [LA Times]
App Review: James …
In 2003, Max Brooks published The Zombie Survival Guide ($10, Amazon) in an original run of just 17,000 copies. No one really expected he could sell that many, let alone did they ever dream it would become a best seller – not a book about how to survive a zombie attack. Oh, how glad we are they were all wrong.
Brooks recently …
In the first full-length trailer, we get the first look at footage of David Fincher’s The Social Network, and the film’s portrayal of Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg. Backed by choral rendition of Radiohead’s Creep, we get our first look at Jesse Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg as the song settles in on the lyrics “But I’m a creep. I’m a …
