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best movies of the year? i don’t see any upcoming contenders on my list. maybe quantam of solace, but i doubt it’ll be as solid as royale.
the day the earth stood still looks great, except keanu is acting really wierd and stilted and kind of off, even for keanu. and he looks [...]

you do! quickly. before they take it down.
[update - 9:24pm]
and we’re done. no surprise there.
(it is, of course, still up. once they pull this one, someone else will upload it and so on until the official release tomorrow? they should just stick with ‘officially’ leaking things onto youtube, it’s more [...]

outlander, wherein an alien bounty hunter recruits eighth century vikings to help him kill a ‘dragon’.
i’m shocked that this isn’t a scifi original, that it has a budget and a decent name cast. and looks good! like pitch black good. a nice little scifi action piece.
not sure about jim caveziel as the [...]

very interesting article in the new yorker about a schism in the evangelical movement.
essentially, the hard religious right and their implied and acknowledged marriage to the republican party has led to an image of the ‘average’ evangelical as ‘i hate abortion doctors and the gays and i love the bush administration so so much but [...]

so ryan comes to me and he’s all ‘have you seen the girl on youtube covering ‘toxic’ on the ukelele?’ and i’m all ‘no, but it sounds awesome.’ and lo, it was completely awesome.
so i check out sweetafton23’s other videos, including a cover of ‘tom cruise crazy’ by jonathan coulton, also on ukelele. [...]

mars had the top of its head shot off a long time ago. this is actual science.
the conundrum was that mars’ southern hemisphere is highlands, rough and crater scarred from millions of years of impacts and so on. whereas the northern hemi is smooth and low and doesn’t match up. one theory [...]

abhay vs secret invasion #1
I think a lot of people have rejected the premise on a one-word basis: “Skrulls? NO! YOU SUCK.”
But this one– look, if they’re going to make crossovers, if they’re going to have Creator Summits where they put all their brainpower behind one series, and spend some budget putting together this “event”– [...]

peter jackson and guillermo del toro answer fan questions about the hobbit and ‘film two’.
i could list some salient points, but it doesn’t really matter. suffice it to say the sword and sorcery quote was less than accurate, and i am now 100% excited about both halves of this project. tycho’s potential objections [...]

i just discovered what may be my favorite umpc yet. she’s not the prettiest, but she’s fully featured, nice form factor*, and you can get her with a 32gig solid state drive. due out in south korea in june/july for about $800, closer to $1000 to import one.
4.8″ touchscreen, 800×480. 568 mhz [...]

i had forgotten about dresden codak for awhile, but caleb at edilw linked to a recent strip about dark horse people that is pure genius. (technically it’s about the stumptown comix fest 08, but let’s be honest here. it’s about dark horse people.)
now i need little pvcs of dark horse people. they [...]