In only three days, Apple has managed to do something that others have only dreamt of doing – they sold 1.7 million units of their new iPhone.
“This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not …
Airbender week: It’s finally here.
For fans of the TV series, for fans of the great visual stylist M. Night Shyamalan, it’s the movie we’ve been waiting years for.
Even those who have been disappointed by recent Shyamalan projects must concede that the guy knows how to put iconic images on the television screen. The terrified …
Driving down Los Angeles’s lovely Pico Blvd., I saw that The Last Airbender billboard had been defaced thusly:
It immediately brought to mind the a billboard I’d seen for Iron Man 2, which had been similarly altered:
To my thinking, each billboard looks much, much, cooler with the spray paint addition. The giant posters …
Friday, June 25, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Peter Jackson Negotiating To Direct The Hobbit Films [via Deadline]
.xxx: The Internet’s Porn Domain [via NewsFeed]
Apple On iPhone Complaints: You’re Holding It Wrong [via CNN]
Twitter Advertising Super Effective [via
The guys at Blendtec have done it again. The blender making, gadget smashing Will It Blend? videos are back with a timely grinding of Apple’s new iPhone 4. By now, you’re probably familiar with the viral videos, which have featured tech’s most popular gadgets being ground to pieces. For many fanboys (or poor writers), watching a gadget …
AMC’s The Walking Dead production blogging has really piqued my interest in all of the behind the scenes work that goes into creating a modern zombie film/TV show. A few weeks ago, AMC posted a video of its Zombie School, an undead finishing school for actors and extras chosen to be featured zombies for the show. It looked incredible. …
Science has done many truly wonderful things in the past, but little measures up to the sight of Oscar, the British cat with bionic legs. Yes, that’s right: the cat with bionic legs. Oscar lost his back legs in a combine harvester accident, but the skills of Dr Noel Fitzpatrick meant that he was able to jump about at random like every …
Alt-porn site Suicide Girls is claiming that it’s been banned from Comic-Con in San Diego next month, as well as sister convention Wondercon in San Francisco for selling adult material to kids, but Comic-Con seems to disagree. Suicide Girls founder Missy told LA Weekly that the site has been informed it will not be allowed a booth at …
Toy Story 3 could change the way you think about games based on movies. Now, I know you’ve heard this before. But what game developer Avalanche Software and the animation geniuses are cooking up for isn’t just a checkbox on a merchandising sheet. The Toy Story 3 video game fulfills one of the movies’ most important yet most …
RISK Factions is available from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for $10. It’s pretty much a must-download for RISK fans, and other strategy board game fans might find it to be a worthwhile purchase as well.
You can play using standard RISK rules or you can infuse certain objective-based elements into the game. For instance, each player can …
