Archive for November, 2006
10 Most Dangerous Toys
Just in time for Christmas, Radar Magazine looks back at the 10 Most Dangerous Toys of years past. Just to make things interesting, they left off the obvious choices like BB Guns, Sling Shots and other toys that were made for destruction.
I think we can all agree in their first choice of Lawn Darts, the [...]
HBO Getting Preacher?
I don’t know how solid this story is, but it sounds too good to be true.
It looks like HBO is developing a series based on the DC Comics Vertigo series Preacher.
Preacher was a 75 issue series written by Garth Ennis with art by Steve Dillon. It told the story of Jesse Custer, a preacher [...]
Movie Trailer’s Galore
All kinds of movie trailer popped up over the weekend. The most impressive is the “leaked” version of the Spider-Man 3 trailer that actually shows Venom. This leaked version is much better than the official version that was released last week (which I still think was awesome). Either one, I’m excited to see this and [...]
Why I Liked Superman Returns
Recently, comic author Mark Millar posted his thoughts about Bryan Singer being announced as the director for the sequel to Superman Returns. They were:
For half the cash, it seems we’re getting twice the excitement and everything that was missing from the first picture. He also says he’s getting all Wrath of Kahn on this one’ [...]
Firefox 2.0 Spellcheck for all fields
The best thing about Firefox 2.0 (in my opinion) is the built in spell check. No more composing in Word and pasting into a text box, or misspelling words because you typed a quick post in the browser.
It comes in handy at work, where we constantly enter text into our development tool (Zentrack). My only [...]
WIRED’s Very Short Stories
The latest issue of WIRED has a piece where they asked several horrror/SciFi/Fantasy writers to write a story in 6 words. There are some amazingly funny entries, so check them all out. On the web, they also have a section with stories that didn’t make the print version (and most rightly so).
My favorites:
Failed SAT. [...]