March 2008
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Negative 10 to 10
In high school I theorized that movies should be rated on a scale from −10 to 10 stars. (Nowadays I’d make it −4 to 4.) A truly great movie is one you want to watch over and over and always get something out of it. A truly terrible movie—a −10—is one that’s so bad that you want to watch it over and over; want to invite your friends over so they can enjoy how bad it is. A...
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Green Lantern Sinestro Corps Checklist
Over the past few nights I’ve reread the big Green Lantern event from last year, The Sinestro Corps War. I really liked the story, finding it to be the perfect sort of fun, widescreen superhero action you want in comics. The story was designed to be very easy to read, with minimal tie-in issues. Despite what by my count adds up to 23 books, that’s actually very low for many summer...
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You probably didn’t notice, but when a movie came out last year called Superbad, the URL for its website was: www.sonypictures.com/superbad. Superbad.com is a site I’ve known about for over ten years (if memory serves), and has housed a strange little art project all along. It’s just tons of pictures and animations with links hidden in them that take you to different pictures and...
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Rock Band for Wii, Two
Joystiq comes through with the rest of my questions about the Wii Rock Band. In addition to not having downloadable content, you can’t create your own characters and you can’t use your Guitar Hero III controller. Yet it costs the same as the 360 and PS3 versions. Seems like they should at least knock $10 or $20 off the price tag, being that you’re getting fewer features. I get...
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Rock Band for Wii
Rock Band will finally be out for the Wii on June 22. That’s the good news. The big question is whether or not the game will support the ability to download new songs. No Wii game yet has featured major downloadable content. The Wii itself has a small hard drive that’s not really suited to adding much stuff to it, but it also has a SD Card expansion slots, so files could go on there....
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SNL on Hulu
I’ve been watching some Saturday Night Live sketches on Hulu. There are lots of classic sketches missing (no Andy Kaufman Mighty Mouse?), but here are some greats that I’ve found:
Word Association, Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase
Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood, Eddie Murphy
White Like Me, Eddie Murphy
President Reagan Mastermind, Phil Hartman
George Bush Debate, Dana...
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Time Machine with AirPort Extreme AirDisk
Yesterday’s updates now allow you to back up to an external drive attached to an AirPort Extreme base station, a feature that was previously announced, then yanked, then recently only available through Apple’s Time Capsule. TUAW reported it last night, and now MacWorld and Gizmodo both have the story as well. I set it up last night on my iMac, and the feature works as expected....
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If you’re playing Super Mario Galaxy, I recommend fighting Bowser as soon as they give you the chance (at 60 stars, I think). You can’t unlock the purple comets until you do, and it’s best to not have to do all those at the end.
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On the St. Elsewhere Multiverse
St. Elsewhere (spoiler!) ended with the reveal that the entire series happened inside the imagination of Tommy Westphall, an autistic child in the series. Homicide featured an episode in which one of the doctors on St. Elsewhere was investigated. Thus, both shows share a continuity, and, since St. Elsewhere was a figment of Westphall’s imagination, so must be Homicide. Turns out that...
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Penny Arcade! - Perfectly Reasonable →
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Penny Arcade! - Perfectly Reasonable →
Bookmarking for later: Penny Arcade’s real estate strip.
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