Will Peter Jackson choose himself as the replacement director for The Hobbit now that Guillermo del Toro has jumped ship? It depends on who you ask. For his part, Jackson seems to be suggesting it’s a possibility, telling a New Zealand interviewer, “If that’s what I have to do to protect Warner Brothers’ investment, then obviously …
Milk Screenwriter To Create Small Movie About Big Man
Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk, has joined the long line of moviemakers taking their inspirations from comic books. But even thought Black’s new movie, 3 Story: The Secret History of The Giant Man, will feature a man larger than the norm, don’t assume that this will be another standard superhero …
How Much Data Are You Really Using On Your iPhone/iPad?
It seems the whole of the Internet was up in arms this morning after AT&T announced new data plans for smartphone users. As expected, the iPhone contingent screamed bloody murder, so we did a quick polling in the office and on Twitter to see if the whiny babies had reason to scream. With a small sampling of 11 folks, it’s hard to say …
Poll: Will You Be George Bush’s Facebook Friend?
You may or may not have heard the latest Facebook ruckus – yeah, we try to tune it out, too – but former President George W. Bush is now on Facebook. That’s right, ol’ W has his very own Facebook page, which means he can now “Like” your post about that thing your cat did yesterday or write a nice birthday message or your wall. He …
Reading the Tea Leaves: Quesada Becomes Marvel CCO
Marvel announced this morning that Joe Quesada had been named as the new Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment. What does that mean?
In practice, maybe not a lot–partly because his new job didn’t exist before now, and partly because he’ll still have his old one. Quesada will continue to be Marvel Comics’ editor-in-chief, a …
Believe You Can Fly: Michael Jordan to Appear in NBA 2K11
Michael Jordan, arguably the best hoops player to ever drive the lane, has long been absent from basketball video games. That changes now.
Capping off a flurry of rumors, CNBC’s reporting that Jordan will be the cover athlete for NBA 2K11. 2K Sports is only one of many game-makers (including EA) to use the NBA license, but they’ve …
Photos: Your First Look At AMC’s The Walking Dead
Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, or too …
Foxconn Employee Kicks the Bucket After 34-Hour Stint
New Thundercats, Ho?
This poster showed up at my door this morning (Excuse the early-morning iPhone photo):
If the glossiness of the iPhone shot is too much, this is the important part:
Along with the poster, there was a note telling me to “Answer The Call,” along with a link to a website that offered up this additional image –
– along …
Where’s Waldo? Somewhere in Hollywood
As a kid with a short attention span, I rarely read books for long periods of time. I typically flipped through to see the pictures to come back at a later time to actually read the words that were printed on all the pages that were skipped. The Where’s Waldo? line of books had just enough text and plenty of images for me to gander at …
AMD Fusion Platform Combines CPU and GPU
AMD is getting ready to put its 2006 acquisition of graphics company ATI to good use with the 2011 launch of what it’s calling the Fusion APU. The Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit) combines both the CPU (central processing unit) and the GPU (graphics processing unit) together onto a single silicon die. The end result will be …
Color 13-inch E-book Reader Unveiled, Out in December
A Taiwanese company named Delta Electronics showed off its 13-inch “e-Magazine” recently. The device leverages color electronic paper technology from Bridgestone (yes, the tire company).
It’s not quite the same color representation you’d expect from a proper LCD display. Instead, the reader uses color filtering (CF), which …