Couple people wrote in with notes about a second nerdcore documentary in the works, Nerdcore for Life. Oddly, I kind of liked the trailer better. A little rawer, a little angrier. (Though you have to feel a little uncomfortable with the basic analogy some of the rappers propose, implicitly, between the civil rights abuses that fuel some …
I’ve been putting off doing a nerdcore post just because I’ve been heavily into nerdcore hip-hop for a couple of years now, and I kind of don’t know where to start. But now there’s a nerdcore documentary. So my hand is forced.
For those who don’t know, nerdcore is hip-hop by nerds about nerdy subjects: video games, star wars, …
GameSpot and GameSpy are both posting their Most Wanted Games of 2007 lists. Why don’t they just go ahead and merge already? Ooh, I am totally registering GameSpite.com!
GameSpy is stingily doling its list out day by day over the course of this week, but GameSpot’s full list is up. To wit:
BioShock (2K Games/Irrational Games – Xbox …
(This interview was conducted by my excellent colleague Clayton Neuman — henceforth “CN” — for this week’s 10 Questions feature in Time. I threatened him with my orbital railgun until he agreed to hand over the outtakes. They’re posted below in minimally-edited form — seriously, these are raw transcripts of a phone interview, so don’t …
Matthew Polly’s new book American Shaolin comes with this memorable epigraph from Snow Crash, which I can’t quite transcribe verbatim on Time’s website:
Until a man is 25, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherf____er in the world. If I moved to a martial arts monastery in
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Is that meme funny again yet? No? OK.
I had a visit from the Chumby people today. The Chumby is a little gadget that’s supposed to live in your couch or your kitchen or your bedside table — I’m thinking of it as a clock radio replacement right now. It’s soft and squishy and talks to the Net and runs widgets: weather, music, pictures, …
To save you the scrolling, for visual effects we have:
– Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
– Poseidon
– Superman Returns
Meh.
I’ve never been very comfortable with the fact that I’m crap at chess. As a lad I self-identified as a smart kid, but when I stepped up to the board, I had nothin’. I just told myself I had other strengths and went back to drawing Thor on my math notebook. But an uncomfortable feeling lingered.
Despite this, or maybe because of it, I …
I’m going to add a short addendum to my Achewood post the other day, since it got mad comments, and I could use the traffic.
Most of the comments were people saying, in various eloquent ways, that Achewood is awesome. With which I concur. Someone pointed out that I didn’t mention the blogs for the various characters, which is totally …
The shortlist for the 2006 Arthur C Clarke Award is up. I always try to keep an eye on the Clarke, which skews a little more literary than its colonial equivalents the Hugo and the Nebula. In the past they’ve given it to China Mieville (sorry, too lazy to do the accent) twice, and to Mary Doria Russell’s amazing The Sparrow, and Neal …
There came a time not long ago when I realized that a goodly percentage — not 50, but like, you know, 15 or something — of my media intake consists of webcomics. A quick census of the sites in the toolbar hovering over the browser window in which I write this post would include links to Penny Arcade, Order of the Stick, Achewood, PvP, …
I don’t know whether to be happy or sad that George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice & Fire is going to be an HBO mini-series. Not that it’s up to me. HBO has repeatedly proven itself to be capable of creating quality content, one example of which is Rome, which I sometimes watch, and one of the Rome producers is working on the Martin project. …