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​The big news that happened almost immediately after I was done with work for the day yesterday (sigh) is that Warner Bros. wants to make a Sandman TV series. Yes, Neil Gaiman's Sandman of the Endless. No, it has nothing ...

Sure this may be a bit late but I don’t care as it made me laugh and who knows, there may be some other folks who has the same stupid humor that I have. Just imagine if the gentle, down ...

America!Here in America...[dramatic pause]...we believe in... patriotism! Integrity! Courage! We believe that Old Glory should cover not only our hearts......but our stomachs as well.[swelling music]We believe that education and patriotic sprinkles are the bedrock of our society:But mostly the sprinkles.[music ...

Vertigo’s popular comic series, Sandman, is once again being consider for a TV adaptation as Warner Bros. is trying to acquire the rights to air it on TV. If successful, they have plans to have Supernatural creator Erik Kripke to ...

Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that in his new book, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was inevitable due to the law of gravity. ...

​No one knows how to reward patience like TV's Smallville. Sure, the show has it's problems. But if you kept up with the first few seasons, you only got Clark Kent battling forgettable meteor freaks (Jonathan Taylor Thomas anyone? Remember ...

[Following his looks at Pong, Breakout, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man, writer and theorist Eric-Jon Rossel-Tairne now examines the inexorable rise of Shigeru Miyamoto, from Donkey Kong through Mario Bros to Super Mario Bros.] It is 1981. Somewhere between testing and ...

In highlights from Gamasutra's Expert Blogs, industry notables write about diverse topics, including the implementation of virtual goods, a message to developers in Dundee, and the purpose of games. In our weekly Best of Expert Blogs column, we showcase notable ...

adeelarshad82 writes "IBM revealed details of its 5.2-GHz chip, the fastest microprocessor ever announced. Costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, IBM described the z196, which will power its Z-series of mainframes. The z196 contains 1.4 billion transistors on a chip ...

Pop quiz—which US Internet service provider made the following statement about a network upgrade? During the construction of this network we have given a lot ...

Buffalo55 writes "For the most part, classic games manage to reappear on different systems. Just look at Nintendo. The publisher has done an excellent job bringing NES, SNES, Genesis and even old school Neo Geo titles to the Wii's Virtual ...

As spotted on Flickr, by Gargantuen Graffiti. Here's a detail: Cute. Read the original, in all its glory, right here: Back! And here's some nice graffiti...

Japanese social gaming platform DeNA is talking up a giant profit opportunity, hoping to tempt U.S. developers to release games on its service in Japan. "The amount of money to be made in Japanese social gaming is astronomical," said DeNA ...

Japanese social gaming platform holder, DeNA, is hoping to tempt US developers to release games on its service with talk of giant profits to be made. "The amount of money to be made in Japanese social gaming is astronomical," said ...

Scientists are reporting new evidence that the fat tissue — far from being a dormant storage depot for surplus calories — is an active organ that sends chemical signals to other parts of the body, perhaps increasing the risk of ...

(David Knezevic and Dinh Bao Phuong Huynh) Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed software that can simulate complicated physical phenomena — how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels — on an ...

aarondubrow writes "Three years ago, researchers from Caltech and The University of Texas at Austin came together to create a computational tool that could model the Earth and answer the most pressing questions in geophysics: What controls the speed of ...

MIT scientists envision inexpensive home-brewed solar energy systems for powering homes and plug-in cars during the day (left) and for producing electricity from a fuel cell at night (right). (Patrick Gillooly/MIT) MIT researchers have developed a new concept of personalized energy ...

Google TV and Apple TV, introduced Wednesday, both aim to redefine the home entertainment experience by creating a seamless system for viewing movies, videos, and music from various sources on a TV. Continued here: Apple TV Is the One You Date, ...

We recently discussed a man who sued NCsoft for making Lineage II "too addictive" after he spent 20,000 hours over five years playing it. Now, several readers have pointed out that the lawsuit has progressed past its first major hurdle: ...

“In Google, we are at once the surveilled and the individual retinal cells of the surveillant, however many millions of us, constantly if unconsciously participatory,” opines novelist William Gibson. ”We are part of a post-geographical, post-national super-state, one that handily says ...

Kids and Games Report - Release tween behaviour too. some stats. Originally posted here: Links for 2010-09-01 [del.icio.us]

Julie188 writes "Target will begin selling Facebook's virtual currency as gift cards on September 5, becoming the first brick-and-mortar retailer to do so. Facebook Credit gift cards will be available in $15, $25 and $50 denominations at the retailer's 1,750 ...

angry tapir writes "Late last week an Australian court issued an injunction against a handful of retailers selling or importing hardware — commonly known as 'mod chips' — that allows unauthorized software to run on Sony's PlayStation 3. The court ...

beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of ...

Oi, you know how you know your old? When you realize comics you felt like you were reading just yesterday date back to 1996. So, back in 1996  there was a very successful comic-book series known as Darkchylde. It was the ...

It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because ...

As fans of the television show Buffy The Vampire Slayer know, in every television show, video game or movie, there must be a “big bad.” Some nemesis that is so powerful and so outweighs the characters, that you simply must ...

(Post by nerdbastards contributor Nick Bungay- Twitter @NickBungay) For over a decade Vertigo comic book series ‘Preacher‘ has been through it’s own stations of the cross. Now it can add the station of a new director to it’s holy book. A ...

Folks, you may remember a particular harsh and comical critic Mike from Milwaukee (of Red Letter Media), or Mr. Plinkett as he now likes to be called. Who dissected and basically tore apart Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace ...

A mash-up made in heaven, this is. Artist James Hance has created one of the greatest mash-ups I have ever seen – putting together Star Wars and Winne the Pooh. The cast shows Han Solo as Christopher Robin, Chewbacca as Pooh Bear, ...

thecarchik writes "It is not an easy task to compare the environmental effects of battery powered cars to those caused by conventionally fueled automobiles. The degree to which manufacture, usage and disposal of the batteries used to store the necessary ...

Anyone who has played a First-Person Shooter (FPS) knows about the perils surrounding the fabled “rocket jump.” If equipped with a rocket launcher, an individual can, if times properly, blast himself to new heights with the blast from the rocket. However, ...

Geoffrey.landis writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, there's a new species of patent troll out there. These new trolls sue companies that sell products with an expired patent number on them. That's right, it's against the law to sell ...