This is certainly the year of the comic book movie.  John Carter, Dark Knight, Avengers, Spider Man, Abe Lincoln-Vampire Hunter and others all are sourced from the pages of your local comic book store.  Avengers and Dark Knight will likely fight it out over "movie of the summer", but a warning has been fired at that claim. Ridley Scott has returned.  The man behind Blade Runner, and ALIEN will roll out Prometheus on June 8 and if the viral videos that are out are any indication, maybe this is the movie you need to plan on seeing. While Scott has never really admitted it - really more...


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I was one of those that really enjoyed Tron Legacy.  I, of course, come from way back in the 1900's when the original Tron blew people's minds with its CGI and arcade fantasy. So I am happy to see that the storyline is getting the cartoon treatment like Clone Wars.  Starting in June on Disney XD, the story fits between the two movies.  Nice cast of voice actors too, Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reubens and, from the films, Bruce Boxleitner - oh and Daft Punk sounds like they are back making those fine electronic sounds.


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The tech journolist, Robert Scoble posted this to his Google+ page last week.  He calls it "freaky" in what this app can do... It's called PlaceMe and its a free, new app that just might make you wonder what and who is capable of finding out stuff about you. If a free app can do this, well, what can the Smoking Man-type do? PlaceMe runs in the background of your iPhone or Android and track and record every location you visit and collect a massive amount of data about your travels for that day.  It uses every sensor in you phone to monitor all kinds of info. Here's a list that Robert posted. 1....


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Here's something to help you pass your day at work.  Watch Radiohead's full show from this weekend's Coachella event.  The set list is pretty danged good and the quality appears to be the in house a/v setup.  If you watch it directly from the YouTube page not only can you watch it in a larger screen but you also get the ability to click to specific songs in the set.


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*update* - upon the release of this phone there was a software glitch that AT&T had to push out as a fix.  They did so quickly, but to make nicey-nice, Nokia is offering up a $100 credit towards the AT&T bill.  That means you can get this phone for free until April 21st. Additionally, since I wrote this post last week, I found this emulator/demo from Microsoft that shows you how Mango would look on your Android or iPhone.  It's more of a guided tour, (follow the blue dot) but you get to see how nice the animations, transitions and graphic design that Mango gives you with the "tile...


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A UFO conspiracy dude has posted a video from the final NASA shuttle mission and asks if NASA caught on video three UFOs. The video is really slow and uninteresting, but as the site mentions if you FF to about the 4:00 mark you'll see the camera pan up in the blue sky and clearly see three white spots in that all too conspiratorial triangle formation.  They move together and the narrator, as the camera follows, tells the viewer that they are reflections. Of course that sets off the UFO community.  Best parts are the comment section at the bottom of the linked story and the YouTube page...


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More than a half a million OSX operated Mac computers very well may have a virus called "Flashback" lurking in their innards.  The virus works to try and gather information about your browsing activities allowing hackers to sell all that collected data. A Russian anti-virus firm released this information last week and has been confirmed by other security firms in the following days.  The virus was first discovered in September 2011 disguised as an installer for Adobe Flash, but the current version is actually a self-installing virus using a weakness in previously un-patched Java vulnerability....


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If you think the Google Glasses video is a few minutes of geek dreaming and never going to be a real product, let's hop in the WayBack machine and watch this video from 1987.  The year I graduated high school. It was produced by Apple to show off the idea of something called the Knowledge Navigator.   25 years later and its fun to watch a video that inspired so many, and still components to it that became reality and some that did not. It's a bit freaky to think that when this was produced the way off year of 2011 was used to imply the "future".  There are many great things about this...


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Yesterday the NY Times wrote a piece about Google's long rumored project normally known as "Google Glasses".  The once secret initiative is called Project Glass and is about as Jetsons a gizmo gets in 2012. As you can see in the video below, Google wants to make glasses, or a headpiece you wear displaying interactive information right onto the wearer's line of sight.  It's kinda like any alien movie when you see the creatures POV.  Maps, contact info, texting, web surfing and pretty much everything else is there for the wearer to access.  All very exciting and hard to believe that people...


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The University of Texas at Dallas has a wonderfully cool and exciting ciriculum called the emerging media and communications program.  There super smart, creative types have been cranking out all sorts of interesting new multimedia, but one in particular has grabbed the public's eye. EnemyGraph, presented by the program's director Dean Terry and  built by grad students Bradley Griffith and Harrison Massey, is an app you can now add to your Facebook account and share pages, people and things that you "dislike", or consider an enemy.  They use the term "enemy" loosely, not meant to encourage...


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