Misc

I am androgynous and unthreatening, hear me roar:

I hope this Ben Barnes isn’t some kind of fantasy movie Jonah, being as how we last saw him in Stardust. Or more to the point, we didn’t see him.

I’m always fascinating by random casting tidbits. I had a brief stint writing Time’s celebrity news page, and I always tried to make my editor run casting rumors that were unfounded and uninteresting and probably legally actionable. Now that I have a blog I can record the following:

— Zoe Saldana, who seems to occasionally spell her …

Bloxorz.

Clink, clink, clink. I made it to level 11 before I hit YouTube for the walkthrough.

Robert Jordan has died.

I’ve poked fun at Jordan in the past on this blog, but now seems a good time to own up to the pleasure his pages have given me. Because I did read the first 8 books of The Wheel of Time, and for a reason: there are lots of good things in them. He hit on a genuinely smart and original magic system — I was really …

I’m hip-deep in inventions that need to be sorted-through for the Best Inventions issue. So I figured I’d post a few and wait for comments, thus harnessing the awesome power of user-generated content.

I usually have a lot of trouble with the cars category, mainly because I know crap about cars. What can I say, I live in New York, we …

Some things I am nerd enough for, and some things I am not. The million-fold wrath of Halo Nation notwithstanding, I am actually nerd enough to play Halo 3. I am not really nerd enough to watch Star Trek: World Enough and Time, a fan-produced episode that’s part of the New Voyages series, which is basically a fourth season of the …

Every year I’m called upon to help pull together a list of the best inventions of the year for Time. This is partly because advertisers like to advertise opposite happy uplifting technology coverage. But it’s also hella interesting.

Lot of good stuff happened in green and ultra-low-cost technology this year. And of course we’ll have to …

I repeat, the Iron Man trailer is up. Hooray for Shellhead. It looks good enough as far as it goes — I have pretty much an infinite appetite for wry Robert Downey Jr. humor — though there seems to be some muddling of the origin story (no shrapnel near the heart?) And I thought they might use just a little Ozzy in there. There was a lot …

RIP.

This headline is exactly the same as the headline on the article I’m linking to. You’d think I would’ve tried to come up with a different, new headline. You thought wrong.

It’s basically just Whedon (the Buffy guy) and Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, etc., who’s now writing for Lost, and doing an arc of the Buffy comics) talking about how …

It’s because of this ‘R-rated’ trailer, which comes on a lot stronger than the original trailer, which made me wonder if I could really sit through 2 hours of Polar Express-style mo-capped Vikings.

The new trailer really doesn’t pull punches. The violence is extreme, and much harder-edged than the balletic stuff of 300. You will see a …