|
| Friday, July 30, 2010 01:31 PM |
| Recyclotron |
 by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Who doesn't love a good novelty toaster? This one's like a defibrillator! Imagine how dramatic your breakfast could be: "Live, damn it, live! You've never given up on anything in your life, now fight! Fight!!"
- There are already way too many versions of Monopoly out there, and a DC Universe-themed one would make exactly no sense, so it's probably just as well the project got cancelled. But I still love these sketches by Mike Allred for the Community Chest cards. (Via)
- At last, some plot details for Lars von Trier's upcoming sci-fi epic, Melancholia. Intriguing.
- The Venice Film Festival's competition lineup sounds pretty impressive. Included are the latest projects from Sofia Coppola (Somewhere, starring Stephen Dorff), Tom Tykwer (Three), Takashi Miike (13 Assassins), Vincent Gallo (Promises Written in Water), Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), and Tsui Hark (Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame).
- That Total Recall readaptation is on the way, with direction by Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) and writing by Kurt Wimmer (Law Abiding Citizen, Salt, Equilibrium). Hmmm...
- Various Grant Morrison movies are in the works! Woo hoo!
- This teaser trailer for Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage isn't particularly impressive, but the filmmakers appear to be following in Ray Harryhausen's footsteps, which could be fun.
|
|
|
|
|
| Tagged (?): Art (Not), Board games (Not), Comic books (Not), Food (Not), Gadgets (Not), Gaming (Not), Links (Not), Movies (Not), News (Not), Products (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Video (Not) |
|
|
| Friday, June 25, 2010 02:32 PM |
| The Hulk Thought of the Day |
 by Hulk |
Hulk hear new iPhone loses reception when puny humans touch sides of device. Cry Hulk a river. When Hulk touch any kind of iPhone anywhere, iPhone just smash into pieces. Hulk feel like Tantalus reaching for fruit. |
|
|
|
| Monday, June 21, 2010 11:30 AM |
| (Last updated on Monday, June 21, 2010 12:03 PM) | | Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- You can own your own TARDIS! (Note: TARDIS does not work.)
- Star Wars characters wearing modern fashions.
- In honor of Father's Day, io9 picked the best and worst fathers in sci-fi. What, Captain Kirk a bad father?! Oh... wait, yeah. I guess I have to give them Walter Bishop, too, but come on! He's trying so hard now!
- Here's video of a guy playing the music AND sound effects for classic video games live on the violin.
- Here's a website that lists movies by how many people (and animals) died in them. (Via)
- 22 ordinary things that look like the Starship Enterprise. Some of these are cheating in my opinion, but still.
- Photos from the set of The Hobbit. Yay!!
- Another cool trailer for Metroid: Other M.
- John Carpenter's The Thing in seven minutes. This was handy, as I haven't seen that movie in a long time. Maybe it's time to rewatch it, in its entirety... (Via)
- Photos from the official opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
- This time around, I'm totally obsessed with World Cup. It seems like every sport I turn my attention on now I fall in love with. Anyway, I definitely prefer watching World Cup to watching the Phillies at the moment, because gah! I particularly love the dry wit of the commentators, and the way they do not mince words at all, but brutally rip into everybody on the field: the teams, the officials. It's great. Here's a spiffy calendar for following the standings (via). You can also follow the matches in real-time on Fifa.com.
- We could have electronic eyeglasses by the end of this year: "Liquid crystals can change their refractive index when an electrical charge is put through them, so wearers can switch between distance and reading in the time it takes to blink.... Putting in the kind of motion sensors that are used in the iPhone also allows the glasses to sense when someone is reading a book or a newspaper and so change the focal distance of the lenses automatically."
- Pixar/Star Wars mashup art. (Via)
UPDATE:
|
|
|
|
|
| Tagged (?): Art (Not), Avatar (Not), Cartoons (Not), Doctor Who (Not), Fringe (Not), Gadgets (Not), Harry Potter (Not), Holiday (Not), Links (Not), Lists (Not), Mario (Not), Metroid (Not), Movies (Not), Music (Not), News (Not), Photography (Not), Pixar (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Soccer (Not), Sports (Not), Star Trek (Not), Star Wars (Not), Technology (Not), Tolkien (Not), Video (Not), Video games (Not), World Cup (Not) |
|
|
| Wednesday, March 31, 2010 09:56 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- io9 interviews M. Night Shyamalan about The Last Airbender. He admits balancing the humor with the edginess was hard. He says his kids forced him to put Momo in the movie, but that he also had no choice but to cut a lot of other things, including the cabbage salesman (sadness!). He's determined to do three movies. It sounds like in one of those later films he might actually reveal what happens to Zuko's mom, which was one of the few loose ends left untied in the series. He also talks about Miyazaki being a huge influence, which is encouraging. I remain cautiously optimistic about these movies.
- Christopher Walken as M.O.D.O.K.
- A milk jug that knows when the milk has gone bad.
- Stephen Dorff has joined the cast of War of the Gods as Stavros, "a master thief who joins Theseus on his quest to help free Greece from the dark threat of the Titans."
- You've gotta love the fake company websites they make for big movies these days. Check out the site for Stark Expo 2010 (for Iron Man 2, via), and the site for Encom International (for Tron Legacy).
- The first trailer for Metroid: Other M focused on the story and the melodrama, and it sucked; this new trailer focuses on the action and the gameplay and it's much, much better. In fact, this game looks awesome.
- I love this Disney/Magritte mashup T-shirt.
- Lots of impressive work from the Society of Illustrators 2010 Student Scholarship competition.
- A fan made a brilliant, thrilling, action-packed trailer for the original Tron.
- Speaking of fan-made trailers, here's one for an imaginary Battlestar Galactica spin-off called The Twelve Colonies, set during the first big war with the Cylons.
- I hate umbrellas, but even I might go out of my way to purchase one if it had a broadsword handle.
- Sony BMG took down Beyonce's official YouTube channel for copyright infringement. Hahahahahaha!
|
|
|
|
|
| Tagged (?): Art (Not), Avatar (Not), Battlestar Galactica (Not), Celebrities (Not), Clothing (Not), Comic books (Not), Craft (Not), Disney (Not), Drink (Not), Gadgets (Not), Hayao Miyazaki (Not), Links (Not), Metroid (Not), Movies (Not), Music (Not), News (Not), Products (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Shirts (Not), Technology (Not), Tron (Not), Tron Legacy (Not), Video (Not), Video games (Not) |
|
|
| Monday, March 22, 2010 01:43 PM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
|
|
|
|
|
| Tagged (?): Advertising (Not), Art (Not), Automobiles (Not), Batman (Not), Books (Not), Captain America (Not), Cartoons (Not), Celebrities (Not), Comedy (Not), Cosplay (Not), Costumes (Not), Fringe (Not), Gadgets (Not), Hellboy (Not), Links (Not), Movies (Not), Music (Not), News (Not), Photography (Not), Predator (Not), Products (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Science (Not), Space (Not), Star Wars (Not), Steampunk (Not), Technology (Not), TV (Not), Video (Not) |
|
|
| Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:12 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- BBC Worldwide and PBS' Masterpiece Theatre will co-produce a new TV series called Sherlock which will feature a 21st century spin on the famous detective, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson. (Via)
- Fascinating story about a temple discovered in Turkey that rewrites what we know about the history of humanity. It's 7,000 years older than the Great Pyramid and 6,000 years older than Stonehenge. The archaeologist in charge of the dig thinks it's proof that religion came first, then civilization. Also fascinating: a scientist discovered the site years ago, but walked away from it when he simply couldn't fit it into his view of the world. Cognitive dissonance to the extreme! (Via)
- Incredible papercraft recreation of Howl's Moving Castle. Oddly similar: a gigantic walking city made out of LEGO.
- Nic Cage as the Norwegian curling team. Have I mentioned that I'm obsessed with curling now? Because I'm obsessed with curling now.
- io9 lists 18 upcoming TV shows that could save small-screen sci-fi. I hope they're right, because all the good TV shows seem to be going away. Anyway, a lot of these sound neat.
- io9 gives a good review to the new DC animated movie, Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths. Looking forward to it!
- Mark Strong is officially Sinestro.
- They're making Missile Command into a 3D action/adventure film. Will it end the way the game always did: with a huge explosion and the words "THE END?"
- One of my favorite entries on Covered in a while.
- Potato chips with real bacon! I'd buy that for a dollar!
- John Carpenter returned to directing after a ten year absence to make The Ward, a horror flick about a bunch of young women disappearing one by one in an insane asylum. Sounds pretty cliche, but maybe it'll have something new going on that's not obvious from a plot summary.
- Yet more fun toys from the Toy Fair, including Bubo and Lord of the Rings bobbleheads (seriously - a Sauron bobblehead), and a Klingon disruptor.
- A used car (and droid) dealership. (Via)
- Hilarious Mola Ram valentine.
- Here's an amusing online app which you can use to make it look like you're updating your Facebook status via various outrageous methods, including mental telepathy, toilet, and your mom. (Via)
- Dude figured out how to control a whole band's worth of percussion instruments using a couple of Wii Remotes. Pretty amazing stuff.
- Ian McShane as Blackbeard? YES. I would totally watch the next Pirates movie if they do this.
- B-Side is a company that helps run film festivals, providing various handy online scheduling gadgets. I kind of liked some of the stuff they had to offer when I used it during the Philadelphia Film Festival. Sadly, B-Side is now no more.
|
|
|
|
|
| Tagged (?): 3D (Not), Art (Not), Business (Not), Cartoons (Not), Celebrities (Not), Comic books (Not), Craft (Not), Curling (Not), Facebook (Not), Food (Not), Gadgets (Not), Green Lantern (Not), Hacking (Not), Hayao Miyazaki (Not), History (Not), LEGO (Not), Links (Not), Movies (Not), Music (Not), News (Not), Philadelphia Film Festival (Not), Photography (Not), Pirates (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Science (Not), Sherlock Holmes (Not), Sports (Not), Star Trek (Not), Star Wars (Not), Technology (Not), Tolkien (Not), Toys (Not), TV (Not), Video games (Not), Wii (Not) |
|
|
| Monday, February 22, 2010 10:09 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
|
|
|
|
|
| Tagged (?): 3D (Not), Art (Not), Batman (Not), Cartoons (Not), Comedy (Not), Comic books (Not), Craft (Not), Drink (Not), Gadgets (Not), Green Lantern (Not), Health (Not), Internet (Not), Links (Not), Movies (Not), Music (Not), News (Not), Nikita (Not), Photography (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Science (Not), Star Trek (Not), Star Wars (Not), Technology (Not), Toys (Not), TV (Not), Video (Not), Video games (Not), Wii (Not), Zelda (Not) |
|
|
| Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:44 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- The Zatoichi movies are on Hulu!! Zatoichi is a blind swordsman who kicks ass and there's a whole slew of movies about him that are really famous and popular in Japan. I will definitely have to watch some of these when I get the chance. (Via)
- I remember reading a while back about the possibility of a mobile phone/music player that could be controlled by your eye movements, and now they've got a prototype. Crazy! (Via)
- Photos of the lack of something are always interesting. Here are pictures of Sao Paulo, a city where outdoor advertising has been banned. (Via)
- My caption for this photo: "All right, all right, shove over! It's my turn to ride the giant dead fish."
- Amazing photos from the International Space Station, including one of the recently installed cupola viewing window, which looks like a TIE Fighter cockpit.
- Using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, scientists have succeeded in smashing together gold ions, an impact that "creates matter of such high temperatures that protons and neutrons melt down into their constituent parts: a plasma of quarks and gluons.... This 'soup' is thought to have filled the universe for fractions of a second after its creation, before cooling into protons and neutrons."
- The hedge fund that bought the rights to Terminator is now accepting pitches from studios.
- New stills from the Tekken movie reveal that the filmmakers got real, actual people to wear those ridiculous outfits from the video game. They also seem to have made some of the outfits even more ridiculous!
- Check out the trailer for The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu. This is a comedy that'll be released later this year about the last living relative of H.P. Lovecraft. He discovers that the author's monsters are real and that, in order to save mankind from the release of Cthulhu, he and his buddies have to protect an alien relic. The movie doesn't look that good, but being a Lovecraft fan, I feel almost honor-bound to see it.
- They're remaking some crazy martial arts movie from the '80s called The Last Dragon, and the new one will star Rihanna and Samuel L. Jackson.
- SheldonShirts.com provides links to buy the best nerdy T-shirts that the character Sheldon wears on The Big Bang Theory. (Via)
- A mashup of two very different Dexters.
- Hasbro's new, giant, 24-inch tall AT-AT looks pretty amazing. And here's a rundown of the other good, bad, and ugly Star Wars toys coming out.
- A report from the set of Clash of the Titans. Bubo is back! Pegasus is black! Excitement!
- Wonderful fantasy animal art, and a funny, Star Wars-related story from Mike "Gabe" Krahulik about his son.
- Cool Wonderland travel poster, and a couple of excellent entries to Super Punch's Cheshire Cat art contest.
- "[Steven] Spielberg is negotiating with Fox to produce a sci-fi series about a family from the future that travels 150 million years back in time to visit prehistoric Earth." The assumption is that they would be running from dinosaurs, a la Jurassic Park. Nice.
- A prequel comic to The Darkest of the Hillside Thicket's excellent concept album, Spaceship Zero, is on its way. It'll be released next month in an anthology called Exploded View from Cloudscape Comics.
- Sounds like the new Riddick movie would be a return to the series' roots and would see everybody's favorite vision-enhanced criminal fighting monsters on an alien planet.
|
|
|
|
|
| Tagged (?): Advertising (Not), Aliens (Not), Art (Not), Clothing (Not), Comedy (Not), Comic books (Not), Dinosaurs (Not), Gadgets (Not), Links (Not), Lovecraft (Not), Martial arts (Not), Mashups (Not), Movies (Not), Music (Not), News (Not), Photography (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Science (Not), Shirts (Not), Space (Not), Star Wars (Not), Technology (Not), Terminator (Not), Toys (Not), TV (Not), Video (Not), Wonderland (Not) |
|
|
| Monday, February 1, 2010 11:23 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- I'm thinking a lot more people would use the Microsoft error-reporting dialog if it worked like it does in this video. Although seeing as how I'm a developer myself, the idea of people being punished by remote users for every bug they write into a piece of code is as terrifying as it is amusing. (Via Howard)
- Apparently Frank Miller is on Twitter and tweeted enigmatically the other day that something called "DINOSAUR" is coming this week. I've mostly lost faith in Mr. Miller, but I have to admit this has me a bit intrigued.
- Seven new clips from Wolfman. Some pretty big spoilers here - you see the creature and everything - so maybe don't watch these if you want to stay pure for the movie. For my own part, having watched these clips, I'm not as excited for the movie anymore. It doesn't really look that great. Corny dialog and not very impressive performances; apparently Anthony Hopkins just set himself to auto-creep mode.
- Let's Be Friends Again is not always funny, but this one is pretty good.
- Samuel L. Jackson is creating his own comic called Cold Space, a four-issue sci-fi/action miniseries for Boom! Studios. It's about "an opportunist who crash lands on a planet in the midst of a civil war, discovering a way to play both factions against each other for his own personal gain." Celebrity forays into comics are not often good, but this sounds like fun.
- It seems like you can never have enough USB ports! But maybe you can now with this 80-port USB panel.
- Here's a machine that turns extra office paper into toilet paper. Okay then.
- Yay, the Razzie nominees are out! I stand fully behind the nomination of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for worst picture of 2009. (Via)
- Sci Fi Wire put together a list of 9 underrated, overlooked sci-fi and fantasy films of 2009. Some of these look pretty fascinating.
- New Diablo III screenshots!
- Some fun fake Garbage Pail Kid sketch cards. (Via)
- Fun with LEGO.
- Every time I give up on Clone Wars, I start hearing great things about it again. For instance, the show recently featured a cubist painting of the Queen of Mandalore, and the Star Wars version of Guernica, which depicts the Mandalorian War against the Old Republic Jedi.
- A site called Little White Lies is running an interesting art contest to promote the movie Kick-Ass: the entrant is asked to reduce his favorite film to six comic book panels. (Via)
- Plush Lion-O.
- Interesting new pics from Alice in Wonderland.
- Okay, the trailer for the Wall Street sequel is pretty good. (Via)
|
|
|
|
|
| Tagged (?): Art (Not), Awards (Not), Cartoons (Not), Comedy (Not), Comic books (Not), Computers (Not), Craft (Not), Diablo 3 (Not), Gadgets (Not), LEGO (Not), Links (Not), Lists (Not), Microsoft (Not), Movies (Not), News (Not), Painting (Not), Products (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Star Wars (Not), SW:TCW (Not), Technology (Not), Toys (Not), Twitter (Not), Video (Not), Video games (Not), Wonderland (Not) |
|
|
| Friday, January 29, 2010 10:45 AM |
| (Last updated on Friday, January 29, 2010 01:58 PM) | | Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Above is supposedly a Daft Punk track from the Tron Legacy soundtrack. It kind of totally rules. (Via)
- A preview for a trailer for The Losers, a movie based on a comic book I didn't like. The movie looks like it might be okay, though. (Via) UPDATE: Here's the full trailer (via). It's pretty fantastic, man. The plot is kind of similar to that of The A-Team, which could hurt them with audiences (as The A-Team will have the bigger built-in audience draw), but then again maybe people won't care.
- Illustrator Neill Cameron asked his Twitter followers what he should draw this morning, and @Leenygma came up with the insane suggestion: "A cross between a Sumo Wrestler and a heroic version of the Riddler. With a jetpack." Neill's interpretation of this idea is brilliant.
- Pretty amusing video: Pee-wee Herman gets an iPad. (Via)
- NBC picked up The Cape, an hour long drama about "a disgraced former LA cop who takes up the superhero lifestyle in order to clear his name and reunite with his son." Huh. I didn't think NBC did scripted drama anymore.
- Micro fiction contest! Write a story of 250 words or fewer on the theme of "troubled and/or troubling superhumans." If you win, you get a T-shirt, and the story gets published online. I'm going to have to consider entering this.
- A picture of the internet.
- PETA wants Punxsutawney Phil replaced with a robot. Oh, PETA. You so crazy. (Via)
- LEGO Totoro!!!
- For some reason I'm really pleased that scientists were able to determine the color of this dinosaur's feathers. (Via)
- The UK trailer for the movie adaptation of the popular Swedish crime novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I guess I have to read this eventually.
- I enjoyed the Penny Arcade comic tackling the recent news story about the prison that outlawed D&D (which is totally not cool, btw).
|
|
|
|
|
| Tagged (?): Animals (Not), Art (Not), Books (Not), Comedy (Not), Comic books (Not), Dinosaurs (Not), Gadgets (Not), Gaming (Not), Hayao Miyazaki (Not), LEGO (Not), Links (Not), Movies (Not), Music (Not), News (Not), Recyclotron (Not), Robots (Not), Science (Not), Technology (Not), Toys (Not), Tron (Not), TV (Not), Video (Not) |
|
|
|
About
Welcome to the blog of Jim Genzano, writer, geek, and web developer. For a more detailed run-down of who I am and what goes on here, read this.
Recent Entries
Recent Comments
Feanor: "Huh. Strange. Yeah, I thought the show was uneven, but smart and different, with the potential to be ..."
on Recyclotron S.Tarzan: "Yeah. The weird thing is that they extended the cast contracts to November (which effectively postpo ..."
on Recyclotron Feanor: "Ah, I posted before I saw your second comment. November seems a little late, but okay!"
on Recyclotron Feanor: "Hmm. Well, I will try to remain optimistic, but it seems weird that there's been no announcement yet ..."
on Recyclotron S.Tarzan: "I should add that apparently Syfy is going to make a decision about Caprica season two by November o ..."
on Recyclotron S.Tarzan: ""Also, I assume this means Caprica is dead in the water, which is sad."
No, not necessarily. Ron Mo ..."
on Recyclotron poppy: "Which is exactly why I loved it so much! Hysterical."
on On the Viewer - Recent Film Roundup Feanor: "Exactly!"
on Recyclotron Mike V.: "Coen Brothers remawha who what why? John Wayne True Grit? Remake? Huh?"
on Recyclotron Feanor: "Heh. Yep, pretty much."
on On the Viewer - Recent Film Roundup
Most Popular Entries
- It's a Boy!!
(23 thumbs up, 14 comments)
- Hey, So...
(13 thumbs up, 15 comments)
- Griffin
(13 thumbs up, 0 comments)
- That new feature I was talking about...
(9 thumbs up, 3 comments)
- The Hulk Thought of the Day
(7 thumbs up, 0 comments)
- I Did It - Sort Of
(6 thumbs up, 4 comments)
- Re-Potterizing: Progress Report 5
(5 thumbs up, 3 comments)
- Birthday Wishes
(5 thumbs up, 2 comments)
- Ocean City Daytrip
(5 thumbs up, 2 comments)
- The Hulk Thought of the Day
(5 thumbs up, 2 comments)
Entry Archive
Tags
RSS Feeds
- Main feed:
- Comments:
- You can also click any tag to find feeds that include just posts with that tag.
|
