There are a lot of comics out there. Too many, in fact, to read them all – which is just one reason to be grateful for Nate Cosby, editor of many fine Marvel Comics, and his boredom during meetings. As he explains:
Meetings. They are not fun. Even if you work in comics.So during meetings, I draw really ugly cartoons, making fun of
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Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partnership Conference is in full swing in our nation’s capital and Andy Lees, Microsoft’s Sr. VP of Mobile Communications, will formally announce Windows Phone Live today. The free service for any Windows Phone 7 user is an online portal that lets you remotely wipe a WP7 device should it ever be lost …
Though none of us in this lifetime are likely to take actual tours of Mars (unless you’re part of the secret government that plans to move there when the end of the world comes—lucky jerks), Microsoft and NASA have a pretty good virtual tour going with the WorldWide Telescope software used to navigate the stars from the comfort of your …
Monday, July 12, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Despicable Me Tops Box Office With $60 Million Opening [via TIME]
Microsoft’s Ballmer: Windows 7 Slates Are Coming This Year [via ZDNet]
Army’s Self-Driving Trucks Let Humans Watch For Bombs [via Wired]
Skype Blocks, Threatens To …
Looks like the fight’s still not finished.
Marvel Studios shut the door on actor Edward Norton’s Bruce Banner, not a surprising move after a highly public argument between Marvel execs and their leading man over the final cut of 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, but Marvel made sure to get in one last swipe before sending Norton off for …
This weekend’s episode of Doctor Who, “The Lodger”, may not have been the tribute to David Bowie’s seminal 1979 collaboration with Brian Eno that I wanted it to be – That’s next week, apparently – but it was another hour for me to realize that I really, really prefer Matt Smith as the Doctor to David Tennant’s Time Lord.
Maybe it’s …
Brick artist Nathan Sawaya is showing off a clever new tattoo on his blog, LEGO imprints permanently etched into his thumb.
Six years ago, Sawaya quit the corporate world to pursue art. Now, his LEGO sculptures are commissioned all over the world. (We chatted with Sawaya a little about his work here.) “Each day I am pressing down on …
The creators behind the classic Marvels series (as well as similarly wonderful Astro City) have announced that they’re re-teaming to honor lesser known characters created by Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby with a brand new comic, Kirby: Genesis.
Focusing on Kirby’s latter, …
Is Apple lying about its reception glitch?
Not only did Consumer Reports magazine announce today that it can’t recommend Apple’s iPhone 4 because of faulty reception, the report also calls into question Apple’s recent explanation of the problem as a calculating problem. “When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone’s lower …
The Plain Dealer is reporting that Harvey Pekar, their own local comics legend, was found dead this morning.
Pekar became famous for spinning mundane moments from his own ordinary life into his American Splendor comic, which featured hypnotic portraits of his neuroses and curmudgeonliness illustrated by some of comics’ brightest …
