You couldn’t pay me to ride in it, but speaking as somebody who couldn’t make a pile of old car parts out of a pile of car parts, this seems pretty cool:
Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters
Wired is doing a really good job of covering this truly shocking incident. Apparently a week ago a group of robotic cannons — capable of acquiring targets and reloading themselves — was being tested in a line on a firing range in South Africa. One unit unexpectedly swiveled too far to the left and opened up on the rest of the line. …
I couldn’t quite muster the energy to be upset, or even surprised, when Apple released a software update earlier this fall that crushed iPhones which users had modified in unauthorized ways. I mean, I feel bad for anybody whose phone got bricked, but honestly: what did they think was going to happen? Apple is very very cautious about …
This hypnotic artifact, marbled with rich thick veins of nerdiness, comes to us from YouTube via Ain’t It Cool. “I’ll just fill my pipe.”
(It includes a clip from the horrific-but-oddly-riveting basic cable staple Small Soldiers, a movie I’ve seen parts of dozens of times, though I never knew its title till now…)
I know you guys are all out there rolling around in your Orange Boxes and haven’t thought about Halo 3 in weeks. But I’m not done yet. Yeah, I know, a real games journalist would have whipped the Brutes on legendary by now, but I just got to the part where the Flood shows up. Shut up.
That’s why I’m just getting around to posting my …
I love Simon Pegg. I loved him in Sean of the Dead, and I forgave him for Hot Fuzz. He doesn’t seem young enough or fat enough to play young Scotty, but …
I can’t wait to see this movie! Except now I feel like I already have. Click for a lengthy trailer for The Golden Compass. For a beautiful woman, Nicole Kidman sure has an ugly monkey.
Also, check out this ultra-high-concept offering from Doug Liman, a director I revere for having done the first Bourne movie:
Every morning when I get to work the first thing I do is mash down the COMMAND key with my left thumb (we’re in Firefox/Mac-land here) and click on each of the websites on my toolbar. That opens each site in a different tab, the end result being a nice fat windowful of twenty tabs all loaded up with delicious morning content.
Whenever a new product comes out there’s a massive rush by the media to get the first review up. Which makes sense, because we-the-media are like that, but it’s also kinda lame, because everybody knows you have to live with a gadget for a while to truly grok its tiny electronic soul. That’s why I imagine a series
I can’t believe this is actually happening, but it looks like there’s a feature-length straight-to-DVD Futurama product coming for the holidays:
Sightings: drunk Amy, talking Nibbler, hypnotoad, Fry’s ass. Good stuff. Though the narrator sounds so much like Phil Hartman it’s almost creepy. Do they have his reanimated head in a jar?