Because if Jane were alive, she’d be splicin’ up a storm.
This game is giving me immense pleasure. And I say that in italics, so you know it comes from here (places hands over heart). I spend weird amounts of time thinking about the Bioshock-verse. I find myself rewarding small daily achievements — brushing teeth, remaining upright, …
This via Ain’t It Cool and elsewhere:
Looks like more test footage. I would question the provenance, but the style does like authentically Blomkampian (Neill Blomkamp being the director attached to the Halo movie; and yes, I am the first person to ever use that word). And those are some expensive effects shots, and the hardware looks …
When Google bought YouTube last year for (some very large integer) dollars, everybody knew it would be so totally worth it. Why? Ads! Put ads on those videos and charge for them, son! Step three: profit.
But where exactly would those ads go? Before the videos? After? Nobody quite seemed to know. The key to making YouTube work is that it …
Apparently they’re still alive. Or at least Dave Foley is, contrary to his participation in the living death that is Celebrity Poker Showdown. If you’re curious what they’re up to, read this. Corporate synergy!
Some interesting tidbits are leaking out about the Harry Potter theme park that Universal is supposedly going to build in Florida. I hadn’t realized that Disney pondered the project and then passed on it:
Rowling’s vision supposedly was that each person would enter through the Leaky Cauldron, tap on a brick, gain access to Diagon
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It has been an honor and a pleasure serving with you. But right now I gotta go get spliced up.
Yeah, I know it’s the middle of the day.
Everybody seems to be extremely excited about WikiScanner, a nifty tool for helping people peek at who’s editing what on Wikipedia. It’s not particularly user-friendly, but it’s usable enough to have set off a lively round of Internet Gotcha. Wired has smartly crowdsourced (I feel unclean for having used that word, but whatever) this …
This IGN story lists two casting rumors for Matthew Vaughn’s Thor movie, one horrible and one actually pretty great. Horrible: a pro wrestler named Triple H. Pretty great: Kevin McKidd, who played Lucius Vorenus in Rome.
Sure, Vorenus was kinda whiny at times, but McKidd clearly has chops and would lend some thespian credibility to the …
Slashfilm has a very nice little scoop. Apparently there’s some kind of filmy rule whereby you have to register the title of a movie with the MPAA before you release it, and somebody got ahold of the titles Lucasfilm has registered for Indy IV. To wit:
Indiana Jones and the City of Gods
Indiana Jones and the Destroyer of
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Ain’t It Cool has a rough account of the screenplay for Speed Racer, which is the next project for the fabulous dancing Wachowski brothers, of Matrix fame. This seems to me sort of like having the catering menu of the next Spider-man flick: the Speed Racer script may be a work of the highest literary sophistication, but if this movie …
Dance, attractive cosplayers! Dance for your lives!
p.s. Belgium, don’t be a stranger
