There was a massive shift in the force when DC Comics announced that it would be producing a collection of miniseries that would act as prequels for Watchmen.  Remember, this is the publisher that earlier this year relaunched 52 different titles with reboots of story lines  and characters to much varied reviews. Watchmen is the legendary 12 issue mega series from 1986-1987 that is generally considered to be a high point in comic publishing.  It won awards, people wrote thesis' about the storyline and it was eventually turned into a movie in 2009. (The full length director's cut on BluRay...


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This is unbelievably cool, but you can pretty much assure yourself that something exactly like this, but MUCH LARGER AND IN GREATER NUMBERS will be involved in the extinction of humanity...   and by our own doing... Just as James Cameron predicted...


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Since 2009 Casey Pugh has been asking the general public to re-film 473 different 15 second segments of the original Star Wars movie. Now, the final version, the "Director's Cut",  is done for you to watch online and it's such an achievement it might make you cry. A version actually won an Oscar last year in the 'interactive media' category, but this is a newer, final version that is a great collective of fan-art.  Every 15 seconds the movie shifts, seamlessly, from one person's version to another.  You will go from a crude CGI created scene to people acting in their office space to one with...


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Odds are that you've never seen the original Godzilla, and by that I mean the true 1954 Japanese version, "Gojira". There was an Americanized version in 1956 by Terry Morse, "Godzilla, King of Monsters".  That version uses footage from the original, but adds stuff with Raymond Burr as an American journalist.  In fact, about 40 minutes were pulled and essentially deletes any reference to the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  This is totally worth your time, but it's the old school Ishiro Honda's version you really need to see. Both are now available from the Criterion Collection...


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At last week's MacWorld one company showed off new apps that are pretty simple, cheap and can create minutes of fun laughing at your friends by making them look bald, fat or old (assuming they aren't already one or more of those things already) Baldify, Oldify, and Fatify are app that take pics on you iPhone and use some automated pic editing magic to turn them into pretty realistic versions of that person if they were any of those three.  There are animations that take place after you create the pic, and even the options to put the pic on stuff to buy like coffee mugs or shirts or mouse pads... Fatify...


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You're going to be reading/hearing that Facebook is going public this week and likely will have the largest tech stock opening in history.  Upwards of about $10 Billion and all of that is simply because of the epic amounts of personal data Facebook collects from you, that you've willingly given it, they can in turn use to sell very specific advertising to you. But there is also a larger change coming with Facebook, and it means you have some work to do.  "Timeline" is the new interface Facebook has been making available to users as an option for months.  But in the coming weeks, it will become...


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The sun ejected the largest blast of energy and particles since 2005 and all of it is headed towards Earth. Monday NASA filmed the sun emitting a massive ultraviolet flash that combined with an eruption on the surface.  Sometime this morning the solar flares particles will hit the Earth and may cause certain flights to be rerouted, effect cellular communication, disrupt satellites in orbit and other communication interruptions.  It will also place more radiation on people, especially those in higher elevations, but not enough to be harmful - like say melt skin... So if you lose your...


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Wow, what a potentially great year it is for movies that fall into the category of "geek".  I say potentially because many, if not most of these, may stink.  On the surface, they sound like fun.   Dark Knight Rises - Chris Nolan's final episode of his Batman movies, this will not stink (July 20) The Avengers - Marvel gets their heroes in a room, they bicker, they save the world (May 4) The Amazing Spider Man - Not sure why, but this is getting a re-boot, promising it to be "darker, more serious" (July 3) The Hunger Games - Based on the very popular books, kids...


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Hopefully Nike can pull off this product better than Jawbone did with their "Up" wristband.  That failure lead to a total recall of the product and refunds to people who didn't even report having problems. Yesterday Nike previewed the Nike+ Fuelband.  Their next step in an ongoing line of fitness monitoring products, which right now are all the rage.  Nike with their usual elegant design ramp up the cool factor with a very nicely embedded LED assembly that displays all sorts of information.  Plus you can track and store info on your iOS device, computer and yeah, share that info with all your...


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Several of you have asked my opinion on this matter. The truth is that there are many people who can explain this matter much better than I, although I doubt there is anyone that can explain it without bias. After reading a lot about it SOPA/PIPA appears to be a poor attempt to solve a considerable problem.  But this solution is really appears to leave open so many loopholes and answered questions that it scares the crap out of most of the internet.  I do think a lot of the reaction is overreaction, but their there is reason to be concerned. You cannot legislate and regulate the internet...


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