The Daily Dose

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:

Up Front:

Do iPhone Users Really Have More Sex? [OkTrends]

Gadgets:

Amazon Is Said To Look At Hardware Beyond Kindle [NYT]
Why The Verizon iPhone Is Already Too Late [Gizmodo]
Twitpic Founder Announces Stealth Communications Startup Heello [Tech

Comics on Our Pull List 8/11/10

New comics drop tomorrow. Tomorrow, man. I hope you reviewed yesterday’s list of new comics. Here are five comics that I really want to be good reads. I want to believe in them and what they stand for. Time for a saving throw against mediocrity. As always come on back later in the week for the Comic Book Club and

App of the Week: AT&T U-Verse

This week’s app is admittedly limited in scope but for those of you living in one of 22 states where AT&T offers U-verse TV service, the U-verse app is perfect for any TV junkie with an iPhone or BlackBerry Torch.

The free app allows you to peruse your U-verse TV programming guide, as well as scheduling and managing your DVR. So …

Interview: Scott Snyder on “Detective Comics”

DC Comics announced yesterday that the single-named artist Jock–best known for drawing The Losers–would be joining writer Scott Snyder as the creative team on Detective Comics as of November. We spoke briefly with Snyder at Comic-Con (before the Jock announcement had been made public) about what will be coming up for Batman in …

20,000 Per Cell: Why Midi-chlorians Suck

One word ruined Star Wars for me, and probably for a generation of fans, too. That word wasn’t Jar Jar or Watto. It wasn’t a character.

It was “midi-chlorians.”

With that one word, the mechanisms of the Force became less spiritual and more scientific. Major bummer. The draw of the concept of the Force in the Original Trilogy is …

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