Wednesday, July 21, 2010 – Happy Comic-Con!
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
First Look At New LOST Epilogue Released [The Hollywood Reporter]
Projector Wedding Ring Will Make you Look Highly Unromantic By Comparison [Gizmodo]
Five Apps For Comic-Con Survival [IGN]
iPad Fueling …
Just landed in San Diego. Comic-Con opens tonight — you can get into the show floor for a couple of hours for a kind of warm-up look-around deal.
It’s probably the best part of the entire show: a brief moment during which Comic-Con actually looks sort of like the show it should be. The halls are merely crowded, not actually packed …
Last week, the web was (once again) having itself a good long belly laugh at another geeky gag by the talented crew at Improv Everywhere. This time we got a reenactment of the first meeting between Princess Leia and Darth Vader set in the subways of New York City. One week later, we’re still smiling. Behold, the mission’s …
At EA’s Studio Showcase event yesterday, Red Sox pitching great Curt Schilling finally got to reveal the first glimpses of his long-brewing action-RPG. Formerly known as “Project Mercury”, the title’s been revealed to be Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and is being published through EA’s EA Partners division. The game will be appearing on …
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This is your beefcake Thor and his mighty Mjolnir. What exactly has Chris Hemsworth been eating?!
Not only did USA Today reveal an out of costume Son of Asgard but some of us at Techland are speculating that Marvel Studios will not reveal footage from the upcoming Kenneth Branagh film. Take a look at all the
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Even though Comic-Con 2010 is still hours away from officially opening, news has started to come from the event with the announcement that IDW Publishing is extending its digital reach by being the first comics publisher to offer titles through Nokia’s Ovi Store.
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How many of you believed we’d live in a world where our handwriting would become a novelty? (Show of hands?) E-mail is uniform and impersonal, and a handwritten note doesn’t meet today’s instant gratification standard of messaging. But melding the two? Now, that’s enticing. PilotHandwriting.com allows you to turn your handwriting into a …
Was it just me, or was last night’s episode of Warehouse 13 kind of… odd? By that, I don’t mean “intentionally wacky” as much as “just not the same as the show normally is.” Are these growing pains, or something more sinister? Here’re 13 unlucky-for-some thoughts about “Beyond Our Control”:
1. Was The Artifact The Least Important …
It was fun while it lasted.
Taking Facebook profile pictures just got easier thanks to Samsung’s latest DualView point-and-shoot cameras: ST600 and ST100. With an enlarged 1.8-inch front-facing LCD, 14.2-megapixel shooters also have 3.5-inch rear touchscreens and they both shoot HD (720p) video. Both models feature a 5x optical zoom but it’s an internal zoom …
