Happy? Monday? Here are some hand picked tech deals to help you ease your way into the work week. The aforementioned Nook Wi-Fi is a downright steal at $149, you can upgrade to Windows 7 Professional for $30 if you’re a student (or have a working .edu e-mail address–wink, wink), and Amazon is selling 90 phones for a penny with a …
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New Comics for 6/23/10
Here it is, the sorta kinda full list of comics coming out this Wednesday. I say sorta because I’ve been leaving off the kiddie titles for months. For example, there’s an Archie and a Disney Hero Squad dropping this week. Does this interest you, our sophisticated and cultured and good looking readers? I don’t want to be presumptuous but …
Toy Story 3 vs. Incredibles: So What’s the Best Pixar Movie, Anyway?
I can’t remember when it happened, when I first started to just assume that each and every Pixar project would be gold.
I’m guessing it happened around the time of “Monsters, Inc.” which, ironically enough, wasn’t even one of my favorite Pixar films. One of my least favorite, actually. But the worst Pixar film is still laps …
Toy Story 3 Review: Another Playful, Paranoid, Philosophical Pixar Classic
The existential crises run deep in the Toy Story universe, ensuring that not only are these some of the most breezy, and beautiful, animated films ever conceived – but also some of the most philosophically challenging.
Am I being too heavy here? Maybe, but follow through the themes with me. The first Toy Story – in ironic fashion, …
Pandora Porn: The Na’vi Love Scene Cameron Cut Out?
Curious about that bit o’ blue sex James Cameron edited out of his theatrical cut of Avatar? Maybe this will clear a few things up.
Hustler just finished shooting its highest-budget porn production yet, a XXX spoof of James Cameron’s blockbusting gem Avatar. Set for release in September 2010, This Ain’t Avatar XXX will feature porn …
Twilight Screenwriter On Sex And The Modern Vampire Movie
If you were someone who thought that Breaking Dawn, the final Twilight book, was somewhat conservative in its treatment of its female characters, then you might be interested in this interview with Melissa Rosenberg, the screeenwriter of the Twilight Saga movies, where she addresses how she plans to approach the (apparently, …
Japanese Dude Beatboxes Various Super Mario Themes with Aplomb
The title pretty much says it all but give the video a whirl if you’re into A) music from the Mario franchise B) beatboxing or C) any of the previously mentioned items’ overlapping areas on a Venn diagram.
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THQ Wireless and Infrared 5 are set to unleash a new force in an upcoming update to Star Wars: Trench Run for the iPhone. In an exclusive demo, Infrared 5 shows us Trench Run 2.0 with Brass Monkey SDK integration. Brass Monkey is a patent pending technology from Infrared 5 that connects multiple devices over a Wi-Fi network.
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Help Make Jane Wiedlin’s Cyborg Fantasy Come True
If you do one good deed for a 1980s popstar that there’s every possibility you had a crush on back in the day, then consider this one: Jane Wiedlin’s Lady Robotika, an upcoming comic that recasts the former Go-Go as a cyborg superheroine leading a slave rebellion in deep space, is in danger of being canceled before it even hits the …
E310: Scott Pilgrim In All His Pixelated Glory
And here’s your E3 2010 Scott Pilgrim trailer. Now that I think about it, Ubisoft did not show off this game during their press conference. It would have been the only highlight in an otherwise drab press conference.
Still no word on launch but it’ll be available for PSN. Wait. What?! Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game will be …
Emanata: Something Something Oranges Something
Here’s the flip side of what I wrote about last week: there are certain serial comics I adore that I’m happy to see ended and don’t ever want to continue. Comics readers are used to the idea that any character or scenario they like can go on forever–that there’s always another first-rate story to be told about Earth-X or Blue Beetle or …
The Comic Book Club: “New Avengers” #1 and “Age of Bronze” #30
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up talking about what we picked up. This week, Mike Williams, Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk discuss New Avengers #1 and Age of Bronze #30 (with brief digressions onto Ultimate Spider-Man and DC Universe Legacies).
MIKE: New Avengers #1: Ugh. Magic. The coolest …