This week marks the beginning of the trial for David Kernell, the 22-year-old computer whiz turned FBI target, accused of hacking into Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 presidential campaign. Palin’s e-mails, family photos and even her daughter’s cell phone number were posted online, and – of course – picked …
The Secret Comics History of “The Losers”
“The Losers,” Sylvain White’s movie about a Special Forces team that sets out for revenge on a betrayer who thinks they’re dead, opens this Friday. The movie is based on a comics series that ran from 2003 to 2006–but its roots actually go all the way back to the ’50s… sort of. Here’s the scoop.
Around 1952, in the middle of the …
Cryptids: The Starchild Skull
The Story
In the 1930s, a girl exploring the Copper Canyon region of Mexico stumbled upon an adult-sized skeleton in an abandoned mine. Next to the skeleton was a mound of dirt under which was buried a child-size skeleton.
Once unearthed, the skull of the smaller skeleton proved to be unusual in that “the volume of the interior …
Compaq AirLife 100 Android Smartbook Headed To The US?
All these smartbooks that are due to show up this year may very well be what everyone had in mind for netbooks originally. Case in point: the Compaq AirLife 100, which was announced in Spain earlier this year, has now shown up on HP’s US website.
There’s no word on pricing or availability yet, but specs include a customized Android
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Avatar Blu-ray, Book Giveaway: Put Some Na’vi In Ya
Oh James Cameron. You conflict us so.
You tantalize us with Arnold Schwarzenegger as our favorite maniacal terminator (who almost made the cut for our all-time hottest sci-fi robots.) But then you give us Titanic, which wasn’t just overlong but also a little overly sappy (don’t worry, we’ve come up with 10 disaster films that are …
What Happens When Garmin and Android Get Together?
You get the T-Mobile Garminfone.
There aren’t very many details on the just announced Garminfone from T-Mobile. Other than it running Android (no mention of which version, BTW), having a 3.5-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, a 3-megapixel camera with AF and built-in Garmin nav software, we know nothing about this device. No wait. There’s …
LOST S06E13 E-mail Chain: I’m On a Boat!
Season 06: Episode 13
Peter “This is getting good again” Ha: Did you think Sun and/or Jin were going to get zapped by the force field thingamabob?
So I get that the smoke monster takes the form of whoever shows up at the island in a box and that’s to manipulate the others. But is there another reason why he does that? Why can’t he …
New episode of “Ugly Americans” airs on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m.
The Daily Dose
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
Reefer Madness!:
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It’s been fun, Spock. You will be missed: It’s sad, but true: 79-year-old Leonard Nimoy has announced his retirement from acting. Nimoy is best known as the man behind Star …
Zombie Prom, A Sing-A-Long Love Story
Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, or too …
Comics on Our Pull List 4/21/10
Again with all the #1 issues. I guess it’s a byproduct of the written-for-trade world we live in but my pull lists are always dripping with #1’s. Check back on Thursday to see if any of this first issue action made the cut for the Panel of the Week.
American Vampire #2
I loved the first issue of this book. There were enough …
Dear Readers, Kindly Explain Yourselves
Don’t ask me what we use Chartbeat for because I sit and stare at it all day trying to figure it out. What I can tell you is that it shows us where our traffic is coming from and one particular search term jumped out at Allie earlier today. It’s funny and disturbing. I Googled it and I can tell you that Techland does not show up on the …