I know last year’s Lovely Bones divided audiences. There were some who thought that its wondrous, imaginative, colorful palette clashed a little too violently with its depressing subject matter. I, for one, thought it worked purely as a visual journey – contrasting the agonies of the living who are coping with a profound loss, with …
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Video: Green Day’s Thoughts On The iPad Will Make You LOL
We’re constrained to embargoes and NDAs, so I won’t say too much about our interview with Green Day. But I did ask them what they thought of the iPad.
Keep an eye out for Allie’s segment sometime down the road.
Words to Chew On: Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Delievers Speech For Morality
This weekend the Harvard Secular Society dealt lifetime achievement awards to MythBusters‘ Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. In acceptance, Adam delivered a speech that’s as moving as it is thought provoking. Your thoughts on deities aside, you should take the time to read his argument for empathy, with God or without.
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Top Ten Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday. Let’s ease into it like Brett Favre into a warm bath with some handpicked deals. I’ve taken the liberty of arranging them in a top ten list from good to great in the hopes of highlighting the day’s best deals without much extraneous fluff.
10. Philips Refurbished GoGear 4GB MP3 Player: $19.99 (Geeks.com)
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Star Wars Heads to Blu-ray, But Which Jabba Will We See?
Here we go: At this weekend’s Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo (C2E2), Steve Sansweet, Lucasfilm Director of Fan Relations, told IGN that a Star Wars box set on Blu-ray isn’t far off.
“We have been at work for a couple of years working on-I won’t call it the Ultimate Set because we keep finding stuff-but, a very full set of …
New Comics for 4/21/10
Here’s “the list” for the week. It is not a super exciting week but I’ve spaded (♠) my projected pull list all the same. Stay tuned for the new Techland Comics Round Table with Evan and Wolk coming soon and as always tomorrow we will have our featured pull list.
Marvel
Amazing Spider-Man #628
Avengers VS Atlas #4
Captain America …
Well Kick My Ass: The 5 Best Moments of Kick-Ass
Kick-Ass pulled in a decent haul at the box office over the weekend, and I saw it for a third time in New York’s Union Square. I think I might have loved it even more the third time around the bend.
That said, the audience seemed to have quite the mixed reaction. I was sitting next to a group that laughed almost in synch with me – …
Dispatches From a Public Librarian: Technology Gaps and Library Fights
Continuing with Techland’s mini-celebration of Library Week, I chatted with Scott Douglas, author of hilarious McSweeny’s column Dispatches from a Public Librarian, which later became a book published in 2008 ($16.50, Amazon). Who better to talk to about the plight of the everyday librarian, who is – sometimes comically – a bridge …
Continue?: Why We Need A Swamp Thing Video Game. (Yes, Really.)
Because gaming moves at the speed of light, it’s easy to gloss over or outright miss the quirky, bizarre or just plain interesting elements that go into the games we obsess over. Continue? will be where we dig back into the used bins and back-catalogue stacks to talk about the trends, personalities and uniqueness that powers the video …
Library Week: A Nerd’s Guide to the Dewey Decimal System
Confession: I was that weird breed of kid who gave up recess to spend more time in the school’s library so that I could talk Huck Finn and Nancy Drew with the librarian. She gifted me with the lowdown on literature, or at least the abridged version a 10-year-old would appreciate, and I soaked it all up. Nowadays, libraries have stepped …
What Apple’s Lack of Support For Flash Really Means
The Techland Show: One Man Wolf Pack Edition
When I was young, I never needed anyone
And makin’ love was just for fun
Those days are gone
Livin’ alone, I think of all the friends I’ve known
But when I dial the telephone, nobody’s home.
All by myself, don’t wanna be
All by myself anymore
All by myself, don’t wanna live
All by myself anymore.
Eric Carmen, you know …