Every comic book movie features a villain or two to challenge the hero, and this summer everyone’s looking forward to Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight. We know he’s creepy, we know he’s crazy, but what makes the Joker such a good villain? Let’s take a look at a few other villains […]
The cover for this issue proclaims “In the heat of battle….FIRE JADE!” Fire Jade is standing triumphantly on top of a volcano. Amethyst is summoning up some magic to fight her.
Princess Emerald seems to be hiding behind some rocks, biting her glove.
Lord Moonstone is looking rather disheveled and the Diamond Priest is taking […]
Hulk Smash. Okay, he runs, jumps, punches and throws stuff too in this action-packed game, but mostly he just smashes. Instantly theraputic for anyone who’s ever wanted to hit anything, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction allows players to use the Hulk (and just about any item he comes across) to destroy his enemies and the […]
Google Chrome seems to be a multi-threaded open-source browser based on WebKit (with some code from Firefox as well), focusing on making a browser that will work well with web applications.
It’s got built-in support for the Gears API (not surprising). And, like Firefox 3, IE8, and Opera 9.5, it’ll do full-history search & auto-suggest […]
Links of interest for September 11th 2008:
Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk’s “Feed the Animals” [Waxy.org] - Andy Baio’s extremely deep analysis of the use of samples in the latest Girl Talk album. While stats like “the album averages 19.8 songs sampled per track” should be really boring, the overall analysis is, for […]
I taught a ten-week comics class to five rad sixth graders this spring.
But, you say, I thought you were too busy to do anything outside your job? Well, Citizen Schools actually bussed the students to the Googleplex.
The result is 32 pages of comics awesomery covering topics as diverse as sausage with utters, bacon […]
If the man yer dealin’ with asks for an activated iPhone, he’s gettin’ an ACTIVATED iPhone. A hobo’s word is his bond. So is his switchblade. Wait, that’s a crappy code. I think it’s, “A hobo is only as good as his word, and his word is only as good as his stabbing ability.” No, […]
The Rumor has been floating around since the release of Superman Returns most of it confirmed prior and some just speculation, well now we have gotten the official word. DC Comics and Warner Bros. studios plan on rebooting the Superman film franchise, completely ignoring 2006’s Superman Returns. In an article in the Wallstreet […]