The Third Batman Film Gets a Title “The Dark Knight Rises” And A Promise of No 3D!
The LA Times just published and interview with Director and Genius Christopher Nolan in which he let’s loose with the title of his third Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises”. He mentions his desire to carry on the look and feel of Dark Knight and for that reason he wants to shoot the film in the IMAX format and not make a 3D film. Yes, he has bucked the trend of every damn studio out there … Read entire article »
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SyFi Greenlights New Battlestar Galactica Prequel Series Called “Blood & Chrome” Forgets To Mention Canceling The Current Prequel “Caprica”
The Syfi channel announced that they had given the go-ahead to a pilot for what would be another prequel to the Battlestar Galactica series that they pissed on throughout it’s entire run called “Blood & Chrome”. In no surprise it’s described as being more focused on “action” and will feature a young incarnation of William Adama who was played throughout the series by Edward James Olmos. The series will be headed up by Executive Producer David Eick … Read entire article »
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Starbucks Launches Their Own Digital Network
In a totally unsurprising move since they started offering free Wi-Fi at their locations Starbucks has moved to bringing their own content into that network of users while offering them things like free access to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today. Starbucks is creating six channels packed with content: News, Entertainment, Wellness, Business and Careers, My Neighborhood and the customer-personalized Starbucks channel. Mashable quotes Starbucks’s Vice President of Digital Ventures Adam Brotman … Read entire article »
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Microsoft Trashes Open Office – No Surprise. Don’t Innovate, Attack Products That Do.
Well, in a move that really isn’t a surprise Microsoft released an ad attacking Open Office, the Open-Source office suite of programs that is FREE. Free as in “Microsoft Doesn’t Make Money From It” and open-source as in “We Actually Are Trying To Make The Product Better With Each Version Not Just Add Shit On Top Of The Last Version Which Was Already Bloated”. PCWORLD covers the ad bringing it to my attention and it’s worth … Read entire article »
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US Government to Bomb Guam… With Frozen Mice
This story caught my eye. There are plans afoot by the military arm of the US Department of Agriculture to ‘bomb’ the Guam’s rainforests with dead frozen mice laced with acetaminophen. Before the conspiracy theorists get started too fast it’s not a plot against the locals or to trick the aliens that live in those rainforests but it is an attempt to control the Brown Tree Snake, an amazingly invasive species which has ravaged local wildlife, and … Read entire article »
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Official Google Voice App Gets Approved By Apple For iPhone App Store!
According to TechCrunch and MacRumors.com Apple has given it’s approval for the Official Google Voice application to come to the iPhone. There’s nothing official but they seem pretty confident of this. The Google Voice app was submitted originally to Apple back in mid-2009 but was rejected for the dreaded “duplicating features that come with the iPhone” reasoning. After the rejection came down the issue became the subject of an FCC investigation regarding Apple’s App approval process. … Read entire article »
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Google Voice Returns to the iPhone App Store! GV Mobile Returns With A Splash!
A while ago Apple decided that Google Voice Apps were not appropriate for iPhone users for some reason (the official reasoning was something along the lines of “Duplicates Features already present” or something like that) and one of the casualties of that was an app that had a tone of buzz around it GV MOBILE. The developer tried to get back into the store but realized it wasn’t happening so he gave up and … Read entire article »
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More Proof SyFi Channel Hates You: Billy Ray Cyrus And Freaky Son Track UFOs In New Show
For anyone out there who didn’t think that the SyFi channel hates you and wants to torture you with crappy programming ( like the list of shows they’ve ordered for the fall ) here’s the absolute, complete proof: Billy Ray Cyrus will star in a show called “UFO: Unbelievably Freakin’ Obvious ” with his freak-show child. No, not Miley it’s another one called Trace who makes any parent who ever complained about Hannah Montana thank the … Read entire article »
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Four Years Ago Today: Steve Irwin Tragically Killed In Bizarre Incident With Stingray
Four years ago today the world lost a true character, Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin. Most people who had ever seen the vast assortment of shows that Steve did probably weren’t surpised to hear that Steve had been killed while filming his show but I for one was stunned when the news came that it wasn’t some monster crocodile or some prehistoric australian beast that tore him apart while he was examining it. Steve was killed … Read entire article »
Apple TV Reborn And Ready To Kick Ass!
On wednesday, Apple Computer and CEO Steve Jobs showed off their new iPods including the new iPod Touch with a camera and a front-facing camera. After that they showed the world the new version of APPLE TV and set the world on its ear. The big points of the new Apple TV is that is only $99 (about half what the original version sold for) and it was now a quarter of the size. it boasts … Read entire article »
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