The other day — some other day, I forget which, not this one — io9 pointed me to this documentary by/about Alan Moore:
That’s the first installment. For the rest click through to io9. The production values are amazingly cheesy, even for 1987, but the force of his ultimate-genius-freak personality pushes through.
It’s just him …
PUCK
Eugene Milton Judd
Overcompensating dwarf
Will punch you in nuts
SASQUATCH
Big, strong and fuzzy
More than just an orange Hulk
Talks smart not dumb
NORTHSTAR
First gay superguy
Uses power to speed-date
Wear super condom!
AURORA
So sexy, could have
Any man, but only wants
Her gay twin brother
GUARDIAN
Canada hero
Wears …
And I thought he didn’t work there anymore.
This week, to make sure that Time was different from every other magazine and newspaper in the entire world, I wrote a piece about Spore.
I love interviewing Will Wright. He sort of interviews himself. He has some kind of built-in filter that prevents him from ever saying anything uninteresting. I only had a page for the piece, and I …
There’s always something cool-slash-disturbing to see whenever the I Am 8-Bit people put on a show. Basically it’s paintings inspired by 1980’s video games. For some reason they’re all really fascinated by Dig-Dug.
Google’s Chrome browser drops today. They’ve created a handy comic strip outlining its features so clearly that even a technology journalist can understand them. I hear Jon Favreau has already acquired the movie rights. Some screenshots are here.
Obvs I’m going to give it a spin. Google people are smart, which makes me curious what …
I’m not going to the 5th annual PAX this weekend. Instead I’m going to stay home and work on my book and monitor Robo-James’s favorite Simpsons quote thread and possibly hack away at Force Unleashed. If anybody has any information about the care and feeding and killing of bull rancors, hit me.
In conclusion, I would just like to know: …
I’m starting to feel like the video game ad is an underrated medium. Yeah, most of them are forgettable. What do you want, they’re ads. But sometimes you see one that just rips off your head and thrusts its awesomeness down your neck. I’m thinking of the “Mad World” spot for Gears of War, for example.
But check out this one. I don’t …
A couple of days ago EA Sports released Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. This would not ordinarily be a major event in my world, except that Tiger Woods did a press tour to promote it. Again: not usually a major event for me. Ordinarily I would let Time’s sports guy, Sean Gregory, handle this — it sort of falls midway between our two …
It’s common knowledge that Ian Fleming’s James Bond spy thrillers were hardly politically correct. They were packed with outdated, but probably deeply-felt, sexism, racism, and, yes, even homophobia. (Not to mention the relentlessly kick-ass sadism.) Those who haven’t opened the books in a while may assume that Fleming’s …
Here’s a video snippet of Neal Stephenson talking about his new book Anathem. It’s a Nerd World exclusive! He talks a bit about how this book relates to his other works (not at all, is the basic answer, except on a philosophical level, which I guess means no Enoch Root cameos), and its connection to the Long Now Foundation’s Millennium …
The Venture Brothers season finale dropped last night. It’s here, or at least it was at the time I posted this.
I gotta admit, I found it slightly, just slightly, unsatisfying. Maybe Venture Brothers just isn’t a big-episode show, it’s the little in-between bits and pieces that really work. When they go all epic I feel like the subtlety …
