Archives for August, 2008

fundamentally delicious


lately

it's been so nice this week. summer finally broke, it's cool again in the evenings and overnight, there's clouds and occasional rain but it's ...


overdue reviews presents

hasbro's ric olie action figure ah, episode one, collection two. collection one, as i recall, was primary characters. quiggy, ewan, darth maul, little orphan ...


the clone wars

short answer - totally great. clever action and dialogue, gorgeous visuals, a solid enough plot, and enough of an edge to counter the fact ...


hellboy 2

short answer - what should have been a glorious fusion of pan's labyrinth and hellboy 1 turns out to not be as good as either ...


stargate is dead

long live stargate. no more atlantis. i mean, yes, there are still 14? more episodes this season, and/or the announced two hour movie to finish ...


ghost blog

mike weiringo posted some great lost fanart on his deviantart, shortly before he died last year. looking at his gallery, still wholly intact, with the latest ...


betamax overdrive

this is what i've been watching lately, thanks to maniacal rage and others i can't recall specifically. mtv's human giant the escalating interview the nightmare lawyer the hypno-therapist the invisible ...


anathem

the new neal stephenson scifi book hits on september 9. so you know what i'll be doing that day.


in the red

global guerillas on the new russian business plan / foreign policy.


by ill★doctrine, via angry black woman who heard it from her friend who heard it from etc...


betamax theater

youtube presents - otto von schirach / laptops and martinis, video by motomichi nakamura this video reminds me of the bit generations games for the gameboy ...


the boy wonder

there's some crap going around, even from nolan himself, about how robin could never work in the new batman movies. dean trippe has it ...


you need to read this

hal crowther on obama and american history, via lyt.


crap

there are twenty two comics out wednesday that i'm interested, at least half of those i'd buy if i had the money. plus three ...


beijing olympics rehearsal

showing off to the world by blowing up the sky


overdue reviews presents

1995 toy biz marvel 10" fin fang foom this toy is totally great. also? terrible, in a distinctly 90s toy biz kind of way. a ...


non-ironic

surprising absolutely no-one, rising fuel costs and a horrible market have prompted major auto manufacturers to start showing off completely viable electric vehicles. hooray! ...


slow motion lightning

at the constant siege. (he doesn't specify, so i'm assuming it's his own video...)


diabolical

the best thing about this whole playskool diablo controversy is that if peeps don't like the color palette or how non-gloomy it is, i'm sure ...


i'm not even kidding.


n-strike vulcan

so nerf is making a battery operated, tripod mounted machine gun that fires three darts per second. belt fed. i can't even imagine what reloading this baby ...


i can has flickr!

so it turns out that verizon had a free service to upload pictures off my cameraphone, the entire time, and i just found out today. ...


just a thought

i want a zen v with a flip-out usb dongle. let my thumbdrive have a screen so i can look at the pictures onboard ...