912 articles on Entertainment

  • Sorry Please Thank You: Good News, Bad News
    So I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (one of my favorite meta-sci-fi novels of the past few years), has a new book of short stories. The bad news is that you have to wait until July to read it. And then some more good news: if you pre-order it now, it will arrive on your doorstep in a few months after you've had time to forget that you've read this review of it and the particulars about the stories. It'll be this pleasant surprise, like a friend who stops by unexpectedly with a bunch of mind-bending tales to share. But unlike the drop-in guest you won't have to make dinner plans or do extra laundry afterward.
    05.08.12
  • 33 Geeky Insults You Can Use Almost Anywhere
    In general, geeks prefer to use brains rather than brawn, to get themselves out of a situation. So, their insults are often witty, literary and highly intelligent. But not always. Here are a few of our favorites. You know, you are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain. ¿ The Doctor, Doctor Who
    05.08.12
  • iPhone Growth in China: It Isn't What You Think
    The 8 million iPhones that Apple sold in China last quarter are a lot like exotic pets: They're cute and they make great gifts for rich young men to give to their girlfriends. But outside of their native ecosystem, their survival prospects don't look very good.
    05.07.12
  • 3-D Video Pod Delivers 360-Degree, Holograph-Like Projections
    Queen's University researchers have developed TeleHuman, a life-size cylindrical pod that allows users to conduct real-time, 3-D and 360-degree video conferences. It's not quite holodeck status, but it's a whole lot closer than today's 2-D video chatting options like Skype or FaceTime.
    05.07.12
  • Pancake Geeks?
    Nathan Shields hand crafts pancake batter into true works of art.
    05.06.12
  • Walt Disney Family Museum
    Last month I had the opportunity to visit the Walt Disney Family Museum, located in the historic Presidio in San Francisco; this was something I was looking forward to, since my friend Floyd Norman had served as a consultant in the creation of the exhibits and had told me a little about it at the time. Even so, the museum exceeded my expectations, providing an interesting and educational experience that's ideally suited for children and adults.
    05.05.12
  • May the Fourth Be With You
    Our good friend Anthony Herrera whipped up this awesome image in celebration of Star Wars Day today. Just remember our motto: Episode IV Come First - It's Just Good Parenting!
    05.04.12
  • Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures - Mini-Quiz and Freebie
    I'm sure you'll be bombarded with tweets wishing you a Happy Star Wars Day, no doubt hashtagged #StarWarsDay and Sony Online Entertainment is doing its part to help celebrate this most hallowed of holidays by offering everyone a free Nelona Dual-Bladed Lightsaber, just like Darth Maul's. Catch is that it's only available to players that log into their family-friendly virtual world Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures today, starting from 9am EDT.
    05.04.12
  • How Big Is C-3PO's Battery?
    Batteries for modern androids are already a big bottleneck, but consider the needs of a mobile sentient supercomputer like C-3P0. Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain figures out just how much battery capacity this world-famous robot would need.
    05.04.12
  • Review: Sharp Wit Lifts Avengers Above Formulaic Action
    How do you squeeze four superhero misfits, a catsuit-clad assassin, a sharpshooting archer and a demented Norse demigod onto the same screen without the thing splitting apart at the seams? Writer-director Joss Whedon provides the answer with his funny, fractious, ass-kicking action romp, The Avengers.
    05.04.12
  • The Search Continues: A Hero for WondLa
    In October 2010, I reviewed Tony DiTerlizzi's wonderful sci-fi adventure, The Search for WondLa. It's a book intended for middle-grade readers, but my wife and I absolutely loved it, and it was a long wait for the second volume. Well, I'm ecstatic to announce that it's finally here.
    05.04.12
  • Reminder: Tomorrow Is Free Comic Book Day!
    Ok, I told you back in December to mark your calendars for Free Comic Book Day, and here it comes! Mine came a little early, actually: Archaia sent me a copy of their free hardcover I mentioned before, so I got a chance to flip through it ahead of time.
    05.04.12
  • Reading With Pictures: The Graphic Textbook
    Reading With Pictures is a non-profit organization that aims to "get comics into schools and get schools into comics." Tom Stillwell wrote about their first anthology last year, which covered a variety of subjects as their proof of concept, and was very well-received. Now, RWP is seeking funding on Kickstarter for The Graphic Textbook, a 144-page comics anthology covering Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, Science ¿ all drawn from a list of common core standards. Their hope is to weave comics-based learning into virtually every subject by producing a book that can actually be used as a textbook, and not simply a literacy aid.
    05.04.12
  • Review: Cancer Is a Twisted Villain in Death of a Superhero
    Ian Fitzgibbon's new movie tells a story we've heard before: A likeable, complex person with a terminal illness is coming to terms with their mortality. It's how the teen protagonist deals with reality that makes this movie different: He draws himself as as a superhero battling a cancer-y supervillain.
    05.03.12
  • Pinterest Now Giving Shout-Outs to 'Pin' Creators
    Pinterest is a juggernaut. The site is now driving more traffic to websites than Twitter. Beyond its draw as a social pinboard where one can find inspiration for the perfect wedding 'do, the site has become a powerful platform for creative professionals to share their work. Problem is, images "pinned" to the site are seldom credited to their author, creating a huge copyright headache and raising the hackles of photographers, illustrators and designers everywhere.
    05.02.12
  • China Convicts Spy Blogger, Lets Others Keep Leaking
    Three years ago a physically disabled Chinese man unwittingly broke the law when he shot video of a military airbase in eastern China and uploaded the footage to his website. Huang Moumou's subsequent arrest for leaking state secrets is a surprising wrinkle in the tale of China's "accidental spies." Civilians with cameras are Beijing's preferred method of revealing military developments to the world. But only, it seems, when the civilians stick to the government's script.
    05.02.12
  • For Extreme Artist Stelarc, Body Mods Hint at Humans' Possible Future
    Legendary Australian performance artist Stelarc is known for going to extremes, from aggressive voluntary surgeries and robotic third arms to flesh-hook suspensions and prosthetics. For more than four decades, he's used his body as a canvas for art on the very edge of human experience. He talks with Wired about artists as early warning systems, growing a second skin and the future of his "Ear on Arm" project, in which a partly surgically constructed, partly cell-grown third ear has taken root on his forearm.
    05.02.12
  • The Invention of Google
    Stephen Fry recently tweeted this old Fry and Laurie sketch. Basically, this is what Google looked like in the world of 1980s British sketch comedy.
    05.02.12
  • GeekDad HipTrax #87
    GeekDad HipTrax is back with another episode dedicated to giving you a whole lot of music with a nigh unbelievable price tag!
    05.02.12
  • Niche Bike Mag Puts a Photographic Spin on Cycling
    Rouleur is to bike magazines what National Geographic is to nature photography. Though it has a modest readership of only 10,000, it has become a must-read for both fans of the sport and fans of photography.
    05.01.12
  • Take a Geek Music Trip With Dr. Pants
    Geek pop rock group Dr. Pants truly have honed in on what it means to be a geek music act, with three EP's that will resonate well with, and entertain geek & non geek alike.
    05.01.12
  • Enjoying the Stumptown Comics Fest
    The Stumptown Comics Fest was held in Portland, Oregon, this past weekend. I was only able to attend briefly on Saturday, but I had fun exploring the aisles and chatting with a few people before I had to rush home to take my kids to a birthday party. But after just a few hours I had a huge list of things I wanted to read, and there were many more folks that I didn't even get to see. Maybe next time, when my life isn't quite so packed. (Ha!) Here's a mad-cap whirlwind tour of various people, comics, and stuff I encountered at Stumptown Comics Fest.
    05.01.12


 

 

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