Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Avatar’s HUGE spoiler: Sozin’s Comet review
So you can’t wait to see how or if Aang can defeat the Firelord? Just visit your local Barnes & Noble book store and pick up your copy of the graphic mini-novel Sozin’s Comet. It will take you through the last battle character by character, but don’t worry, it won’t spoil your appetite to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Comics, Television by Mike Johnson
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Rolando: LocoRoco-esque iPhone game
Rolando for iPhone - Teaser trailer from handcircus on Vimeo.
Being fans of both the delightfully quirky LocoRoco and of the iconic Apple mobile, the trailer for the upcoming similarly-styled Rolando for iPhone looks intriguing indeed. Calling it a “physics-based platform/puzzler,” developer Simon Oliver says he hopes to have the title available at the App Store [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets, Games, Mobile, Trailers, Video by Barb Dybwad
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Where the Hell is Matt?
Matt Harding left his job creating video games to travel around the world. And dance. You see, Matt only knows one dance and it isn’t a particularly good one, but he danced it in some of the most beautiful places on Earth. And he filmed it.
One corporate sponsorship later, he did it again, but this [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Dance, Video by Dan O'Halloran
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
David Byrne plays the building
Never one to shy away from inventive music-making, the inimitable David Byrne shows off his latest project in the video embedded above. He’s giving people the opportunity to “play the house,” an “instrument” he’s constructed out of ordinary household fixtures such as pipes and other mechanical objects — all controlled by an organ console, open [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Music, Tech, Video by Barb Dybwad
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Reel Geezers and LoG review ‘Wanted’
We only recently had the great fortune of being introduced to the Reel Geezers, an acerbic duo of octagenarian movie industry vets who film short movie reviews and distribute them on YouTube. They recently took on Wanted, the summer blockbuster Mark Millar comic-inspired action flick — check out the review, embedded above.
Legion of Geek had [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Features, Movies, Video by Barb Dybwad
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Quicklinks: July 2, 2008
Culling useful links for geeks from around the intarwebs since July 2, 2008:
Get stuff: 30+ places to download free music
GTD FTW: How to set Gmail as your default email client in Firefox 3
Lunar eyecandy: Man on the Moon, Future and Past
The digital living room: The Roku box to expand beyond Netflix. Living room Trojan horse?
Drunken [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets, Internetz, Movies, Music, News, Quicklinks, Science, Shorts, Tech by Barb Dybwad
