You know, I’ve given more than one lifeless, stuttering corporate presentation in my life. Doubtless I will give more. And I don’t think I deserve to be mocked for it mercilessly, around the clock, on the Internet. I don’t think anybody deserves that. Unless it’s funny. Giant enemy crabs remix! This is from Sony’s 2006 E3 …
What Was Your First Computer?
A lovely book landed on my desk today: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers by John Alderman, Dag Spicer, and Mark Richards. It starts with a reconstructed version of the Z3 Adder, a WWII-era machine that used “hole-punched movie film” to store data, and goes up through Google’s first production server, which is not very …
Trek Returns, Xmas ’08
Oh, snap. I may have to become a Christian just for the occasion.
Casting rumors are here. Quoth he: “the roles of James T. Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy may go to three very big name stars: [Matt] Damon, Adrien Brody and Gary Sinise.” Sinise could use the work, but damn, those other two? I guess it’s possible. Matt Damon: Kirk :: …
More Notes on Giant Aliens: Yours is Bigger
I blog today through a feverish haze, which is appropriate given the hallucinatory subject matter. In my debilitated state I’m just going to summarize comments on yesterday’s post, which make clear my numerous personal and nerdly shortcomings.
— Several readers brought up large organic space vessels from Babylon 5 and Star Trek as …
A Little List of Really Big Aliens
Falling asleep last night, feeling replete and self-satisfied from an evening spent not-watching the Oscars — yeah, I’m just a rebel that way — I played a thought-game: What are the ten physically largest living beings in all of science fiction? Here’s my list, biggest to smallest, generated — I might add, in my defense — without …
Who Will Watch the Watchmen? Me! Totally!
For the last few weeks I’ve been working on a piece about Zack Snyder’s remarkable 300, a CGI-heavy adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel. His next project after that is Watchmen. I had kind of assumed, after the Gilliam version died, that all future Watchmen projects were snares and delusions, but Snyder’s appears to be actually …
The Old Gods Have Awakened, Fear Their Many Arms
I realize that Google launched a war with Microsoft today, and Apple and iPhone settled their trademark dispute, but as my 2-year-old daughter says: “guys, we have to focus.” A bunch of New Zealand fishermen have landed a colossal squid in Antarctica.
Star Trek: It’s Made of People
Lately I’ve been watching a feature-length fan-made Star Trek parody called Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. There are dark abysms of Trek fandom that kinda scare me, but you know what? This is really very, very watchable. It was done by a small (but apparently very scrappy) group of Finnish guys, amateurs, who spent 7 years on the …
Of Geeks and Girls
The Keymaster and the Gatekeeper will be meeting face to face at a conference in May for an unscripted chat. Thus begins the rule of Gozer. Actually, it should be pretty interesting — maybe they’ll settle that whole teachers’ unions issue once and for all.
In other news, the people at Inkling magazine — possibly being even more …
The Simpsons Movie: The Trailering
There’s a third trailer out for The Simpsons Movie, which shows every sign of being the longest, widest Simpsons episode ever. This is the first trailer that gives a sense of the tone and scope of the movie, which is basically no different from the TV version, though I assume somebody somewhere will swear to prove it really is a movie, a …
Sure, When Britney Shaves Her Head, It’s News. But When I Do It…
I just had to say that, and now I’ve said it, and we can all move on.
Barenaked Ladies have released a video featuring a pretty impressive all-star cast of YouTube celebrities. Brookers and Geriatric1927, together at last! (Am I the last person on the Net to find out that Geriatric1927’s real name is Peter Oakley? When did that come …
Image Dump: Of Interest to Nerds With Eyes
This post will strain my primitive HTML skills to the very breaking point.
1. This is the new universal symbol of radiation, generated by the best creative minds at the International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Organization for Standardization. So it’s very, very international. Note the strangely happy, toothless skull …