davextreme: May 2008

29 May 2008

Netflix Recommends

Based on movies I’ve recently added to my queue, Netflix recommends movies from the category “Movies for 8-10 Year Olds”.

I think I finally figured out what’s odd about J.G. Jones’s otherwise great cover for _Final Crisis_ 1: the ring’s not lit up. Clearly he spent some time playing with a flashlight and a digital camera to figure out how a Green Lantern ring would cast shadows, but the ring itself is dark and the logo easily visible. It’s like the light’s coming from the space between Hal Jordan’s knuckle and the back of the ring. Shouldn’t looking straight on at the ring be like looking right at a lightbulb?

28 May 2008

Official Google Mac Blog: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts

No idea if this works witih Google Apps or not.

The League of Public Domain Properties

Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba: The last drops of ink on CASANOVA

Watch the wonder twins finish the last inks of Casanova 14. I really hope it’s not too long before they get back for another issue.

27 May 2008

Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo Expands His Empire

Nice New York Times profile of Miyamoto.

26 May 2008

Dr. Mario Online RX Hits North American WiiWare

My family plays a vicious breed of Dr. Mario on our old NES whenever we’re home. Now it’s finally on Wii with online play.

25 May 2008

Pork and Beans

New Weezer video. Sounds more like their newer stuff, which I haven’t liked as much, but it’s still Weezer.

Weezer (Red Album)

Weezer’s new album is available for “pre-order” on iTunes with bonus tracks. Comes out June 3. (Link opens iTunes)

23 May 2008

Eye on Comics » Blog Archive » More Dollars and Sense

SteamPunk Magazine: Putting the Punk back into SteamPunk

Daring Fireball: The Amazon MP3 Store and Amazon MP3 Downloader

Amazon.com MP3 Downloads: Popular music, classical music, new releases and more, in MP3 format

Download popular music, classical music, new releases and more, in MP3 format. Most songs are $0.99 and most albums are $9.99 or less.

THE BEAT » Blog Archive » Marvel Month-to-Month Sales August 2007

Coming Soon: A New Take On the Old Double Bill - WSJ.com

George Lucas on his two Star Wars TV series, Heroes and HBO's Rome - Celebrity and Entertainment News | TVGuide.com

George Lucas on his two Star Wars TV series, Heroes and HBO’s Rome - Celebrity and Entertainment News | TVGuide.com

George Lucas, Episode II: Star Wars Strikes Back — on TV from TVGuide.com

George Lucas Supports Indie Filmmakers and Teases Next Indiana Jones 4 - Celebrity and Entertainment News | TVGuide.com

George Lucas Hails Maverick Filmmakers, Teases Indy 4 from TVGuide.com

Eye on Comics » Blog Archive » Dollars and Sense

Six Apart - Blog - We Are Opening the Social Graph

Arrowette's Diary - The Dan Didio Advisory & Warning System.

Arrowette’s Diary - The Dan Didio Advisory & Warning System.

Arrowette's Diary - DC Artists, it's OK; you have my permission. You can draw Mary Marvel's vagina.

Arrowette’s Diary - DC Artists, it’s OK; you have my permission. You can draw Mary Marvel’s vagina.

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Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times

The move comes two years to the day after The New York Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect.

Todd's Blog » Blog Archive » Logo Study: Action Comics/Superman part 1

Todd’s Blog » Blog Archive » Logo Study: Action Comics/Superman part 1

Todd Klein on lettering, life, literature and more

Todd's Blog » Blog Archive » Logo Study: Batman Part 1

Todd’s Blog » Blog Archive » Logo Study: Batman Part 1

Todd Klein on lettering, life, literature and more

SFGate: Culture Blog! : In defense of those dudes who dress up like Stormtroopers

The skew on arts and culture from Inside 5th & Mission

Femtroopers - Featured on BuzzFeed

Femtroopers: Hot girls who dress up like Storm Troopers…Pics: The Contoured Breast Plates are Especially Hot

Topsy-Turvy World - Pogue's Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog

Topsy-Turvy World - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog

David Pogue's technology column has appeared each Thursday in The Times since 2000. Each week, he also writes the Times e-mail column

Release Notes - Vox

Here's what's brand new in Vox:Blog this -> Vox This You've enjoyed using the "Vox This" feature to pull in content from other sites, and now we've added the functionality inside Vox. When you're viewing a post or asset on…

Daring Fireball: The Ringtones Racket

Mario Level Can Autoplay Video

Free videos, humor, comedy, hot chicks & pictures for guys.

Newsarama's continuing coverage of the 2007 Baltimore Comic Con and Diamond Retailer Summmit.

Apple - Trailers - Iron Man

Iron Man: Coming to theaters in 2008 from Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment, based on Marvel's best-selling Iron Man comic book character.

Everything TypePad: Introducing TypePad for iPhone and iPod touch

Everything TypePad brings you the latest TypePad news, along with advice and ideas for making your blog great.

Apple as High Roller - Boing Boing Gadgets

Gelflog - What Games Can Humans Still Win?

A Science and Sports blog entry written by Adam Conner-Simons

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Computers crack famous board game

A computer program is created that will never lose a game of draughts, scientists say.

Apple - To all iPhone customers

- Marvel.com News

Sugarshock 2

Join MySpace & Dark Horse Comics for a historic comic book experience online. DHP is now MYSPACE DARK HORSE PRESENTS! MySpace dark horse presents features the best writers & artists in comics creating original work - all for free exclusively on MySpace…

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Color + Design Blog / Color vs. Colour - The Great Spelling Battle by COLOURlovers

Color + Design Blog by COLOURlovers

Official Google Reader Blog: "We found it!"

Official Google Reader Blog: “We found it!”

Depression, Alcoholism, & STDs: Which One Is Right For You? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Depression, Alcoholism, & STDs: Which One Is Right For You? | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

The Onion, America's Finest News Source, is an award-winning publication covering world, national, and * local issues. It is updated daily online and distributed weekly in select American cities.

The Facebook Blog | Facebook

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people t…

Movable Type: OpenID: Built In With MT4

the-history-of-labor-day: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

Personal Finance, personal-finance

MarsEdit 2.0 lands with new UI, Flickr integration, and more

MarsEdit 2 - Powerful Blog Publishing For Your Mac

Daring Fireball Linked List: September 2007

Voidstar - Facebook Status to Twitter

Amazon.com: Twin Peaks - The Definitive Gold Box Edition (The Complete Series): Kyle MacLachlan, David Lynch: Movies & TV

IGN: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Review

IGN is the ultimate resource for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption reviews featuring in-depth reviews from our award-winning editorial staff along side thousands of user reviews.

With 'LOLcats' Internet Fad, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke - WSJ.com

With ‘LOLcats’ Internet Fad, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke - WSJ.com

red fuzzy jesus: Cruelty, Poultry, Pork and Pragmatism

Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video

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Flickr: The In The Year 2000 Pool

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you t…

THE BEAT » Blog Archive » Marvel Month-to-Month sales: July 2007

THE BEAT » Blog Archive » DC Month to Month Sales: July 2007

NBC Will Not Renew ITunes Contract - New York Times

NBC Universal and Apple were unable to come to an agreement on pricing, leading to the a withdrawal that highlights escalating tensions between Apple and media companies.

iTunes Store To Stop Selling NBC Television Shows

20 May 2008

Whedon Readies Sci-Fi Web Musical, Dr. Horrible | The Underwire from Wired.com

This article gave me a case of the vapors. Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion starring in a web musical written by Joss Whedon.

18 May 2008

SNL Digital Short: Japanese Office: Saturday Night Live

Love this Japanese The Office parody from Saturday Night Live.

14 May 2008

Comic Book Resources > CBR News: Why "Casanova" Matters

Why _Casanova Matters_ is a great essay by Tim Callahan about my favorite ongoing comic series.

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens - Yahoo! News

The Vatican astronomer says that it’s okay to believe in alien life, as extraterrestrials would also be part of God’s plan.

Game Informer snags first pic of Guitar Hero IV drums - Joystiq

Game Informer has a picture of the drum kit for the upcoming Guitar Hero IV. The immediate, unanswered question is whether or not the game will work with Rock Band’s hardware, and vice-versa. Business-wise it doesn’t make sense to me to force customers either to choose between platforms or to fill up their houses with 6-8 plastic instruments. I can see lots of parents and spouses denying the purchase of yet another set of plastic drums.

09 May 2008

FreakAngels » Interlude

Warren Ellis’s FreakAngels manages to entertain even on a skip week. The artist, Paul Duffield, is taking a week off, but Ellis provides some backmatter.

03 May 2008

Caprica ←→ Six

I think I had my Cylons switched the other day. The Six on Galactica is Caprica Six. The one on the Basestar is a standard Six.