You know, there are times when I seriously wonder whether, if I had infinite amounts of money and time, and if I were capable of dropping my literary pride for a cotton-pickin’ minute, I would ever read anything besides comic books. There just aren’t a lot of other media that reliably deliver that kind of mainline tasp-like pleasure.
I …
This is a geek culture blog. It’s specifically here for me to blow off steam when I’m sick of writing tech-biz-gadget stories. So I frequently excuse myself from weighing in on hot-button topics like DRM. I’m going to do that again by linking to this fine analysis of the Apple-EMI announcement yesterday by the competition at …
From the online SF mag Darker Matter comes a little-seen interview with Douglas Adams from 1979, complete with vintage audio samples. It conjures up visions of an Edenic counter-Earth on which the Graham Chapman-Douglas Adams-scripted Ringo Starr TV special actually saw the light of day. (Or maybe it’s a nightmare alternate reality that …
Still haven’t beaten that deadline. Still posting YouTube clips. FTW. Herewith the PG-recut of 300, via Penny Arcade.
I think it says something about my personal psychology that until I actually went and looked it up online I thought “FTW” stood for “f___ the world!” I am now given to understand that it means “for the win.” Who knew.
I’ve got a brutal deadline today, so I’m going to continue my lazy video-clip-embedding ways with this YouTube clip of a …
One reason I know I’m not a true nerd is that a) I don’t think I’ve ever actually enjoyed a piece of machinima, and b) I don’t see the point of large orchestras performing music from video games. That said — and maybe I’ve said too much already — I’m going to “embed” below a couple of YouTube clips of videogame music performances that …
The Grand Theft Auto IV trailer is here.
So yeah: it’s set in New York City (here at Time we’re trained from birth, like Spartans, to add the word “City” after every mention of New York, capital C, to distinguish it from the State), and in the present day (there are some up-to-the-minute jokes in the billboards). Looks like we’ve got …
Just a note to point Potteristas to a very useful post at the Leaky Cauldron summarizing some of the speculation (500+ posts as of this morning) going on over there about the Deathly Hallows covers.
Much chatter about the so-called “love room” at the Ministry of Magic, which I basically have only the dimmest memory of what that is. I …
I’ll paste in the Novels and the Short Stories below, since those are the categories that usually get the most interest:
Novel
Michael F. Flynn, Eifelheim (Tor)
Naomi Novik, His Majesty’s Dragon (Del Rey; also, Voyager, 1/06, as Temeraire)
Charles Stross, Glasshouse (Ace)
Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (Tor)
Peter Watts, Blindsight …
I won’t insult you by compressing it down to the width of this column: click here for the full experience.
From the press release:
“The front cover of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows features a dramatic sky of oranges and golds. It depicts 17-year-old Harry with arm outstretched, reaching upward. The structures around Harry
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In the absence of any serious nerd news, I was going to post about how I’ve been blissing out on mc chris’s latest album “dungeon master of ceremonies.” But then I recalled a dream I had in which Joan of Arc told me I’d never be one of the Elect if I didn’t post more top 10 lists. So I’ma go that way instead.
Herewith: the top 10 …
I’m going to — as we say here in corporate America — “circle back” to a post from last week about that list of the 10 most important video games that came out last week.
Some interesting comments on this one. I put my alternative nominees out there, and so did you. Your comments are in quotes, my annotations are in parens:
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