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		<title>So sad.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ ..lol. Originally uploaded by Kimli . In associated news, only 4% of the UK games industry is female , according to GI Biz. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday Runaround – Pirates, Libraries And Slots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ SoThat&#8217;sWhyTheyTargetedHTMLComicsWatch : All these publishers have partnered with OverDrive, a Cleveland, OH-based company that supplies eBooks, audiobooks, music and movies to 11,000 libraries worldwide. Functionally, the process mirrors normal single issue sales. OverDrive acts as the distributor and each individual library chooses which, if any, comics they&#8217;ll purchase and how many copies. When an issue is purchased, it appears on the library’s website as an eBook available for checkout. Only one person can checkout an e-book at a time, and the download has an auto-expiration date.- Todd Allen, Publishers Weekly TalkingOfWhichWatch : Marvel have taken down the WordPress version of Comics Invasion now too. GambleWatch: Green Lantern is now a licensed slot machine . I wonder what you get for three rings? JJJWatch : VaughanWatch: Mark Millar says ; Really, there&#8217;s plenty going on with all of my creator-owned stuff. Nemesis is already being made into a movie, Matthew [Vaughan] wants to produce Superior . Well, actually, he&#8217;s unsure at the moment whether he&#8217;s going to direct that after X-Men , or go straight into directing Kick-Ass 2 and just produce Superior , but he&#8217;s interested either way. And you might think, &#8220;Well, Mark&#8217;s going to stick with creator-owned stuff in the future, then,&#8221; but I&#8217;m not, because, honestly, I just love doing the Marvel stuff too. This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on. Dark Horse tidbit from Kumoricon 2010 There were two great pieces of news that came this panel what I couldn&#8217;t have been happier about. Two of DH&#8217;s most critically acclaimed series that were put on hiatus are now back on the schedule. Eden: It&#8217;s an Endless World and my personal favorite, MPD-Psycho are back off of hiatus. Both titles only have a handful of volumes left, and although volumes will not come out at high speed, they will come out as long as fans not only buy the titles, but also keep telling Dark Horse these are the titles they want to see. A class to die for: Zombies 101 at U. Baltimore The University of Baltimore is offering a new class on the undead. The course is being taught by Arnold Blumberg, the author of a book on zombie movies, &#8220;Zombiemania,&#8221; and the curator of Geppi&#8217;s Entertainment Museum, which focuses on American pop culture. PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop&#8217;s Catalog! &#8211; New Releases In Shops 9/9/2010 Hex UK Landing in a lowly 26th place, costly flop Jonah Hex kicked off its run with £36,000 from 106 venues and a £337 average. The commercially unappealing comic-book adaptation had already disappointed with its US opening of $5.4m – a figure that would indicate a UK debut of around £540,000. But Warner Bros was never likely to bust a gut on marketing spend after the disastrous American result. Multiplex chains that scheduled the picture will consider it a favour delivered to the distributor, but don&#8217;t expect Jonah Hex to hold many sites from Friday – charity has its limits. Steranko Obscura, plus Kirby A big part of that void is because he did the lion’s share of his career in comics (volume-wise, anyway, 29 out of 42 books) at Marvel, hands down the publisher with the worst reprint schedule in comics. They’ve ravaged his library of works, man &#8212; first they put out these horribly recolored cheap-o trades that the man himself refuses to sign at conventions, and now a sixty-dollar, super-limited, not-available-on-Amazon hardcover is the only way to read the SHIELD stuff that comprises the bulk of his books there. Corporate ownership of great comics takes on a whole nother pernicious dimension now that reprints are so important! But more than that, there’s this weird critical negative zone surrounding Steranko’s work where none of the big marquee sources &#8212; Comics Journal, I guess, and publishers that might refurbish or recontextualize the non-Marvel stuff for a new audience &#8212; will even go near it. Iron Man 2 #2 Movie of the Summer The No. 1 movie of the summer had no stars, at least on screen: “Toy Story 3” topped the North American box office with over $405 million and had a global total of over $1 billion. “Iron Man 2” was second, with $312 million ($622 million total), and “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” was third, with $298 million ($655 million total). ]]></description>
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		<title>Ruben Fleischer Drops Hints About A Flashback-Packed, 3D Zombieland Sequel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Everybody and their blogging dog, it would seem, stopped by the set of Ruben Fleischer&#8217;s upcoming pizza delivery comedy, 30 Minutes or Less , and came back with the same flavour of comments on his in-the-works Zombieland sequel. Here&#8217;s the Reader&#8217;s Digest version of their findings: There&#8217;s a draft of the script. It&#8217;s &#8220;amazing&#8221; but &#8220;needs work&#8221;. It&#8217;s early days yet and Fleischer may well direct another film first, though he&#8217;d be excited to move straight back to Zombieland . Because of the next film&#8217;s structure, and the way voice over is used, there&#8217;s space for a lot of flashbacks to bring out more backstory for the characters. He even dropped some hints about flash forwards, for some mysterious reason. The surviving principals of the first film will return. Fleischer will make the film in 3D and wants this to be native, in-camera 3D and not post-production stuff. You can mine for all of this stuff yourself at Shock , MTV , Cinema Blend , Movieweb et al. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coolorama.com/bleeding-cool/ruben-fleischer-drops-hints-about-a-flashback-packed-3d-zombieland-sequel/</link>
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		<title>Infinite Mario With Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[bgweber writes "There's been a lot of discussion about whether games should adapt to the skills of players. However, most current techniques limit adaptation to parameter adjustment. But if the parameter adaptation is applied to procedural content generation, then new levels can be generated on-line in response to a player's skill. In this adaptation of Infinite Mario (with source [.JAR]), new levels are generated based on the performance of the player. What other gameplay mechanics are open for adaptation when games adapt to the skills of specific players?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Day Matt Smith Was Out-Acted By An Eight Year Old Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The other day, the BBC ran a TV cut of the Doctor Who At The Proms 2010. The Proms are a series of popular classical musical concerts that run during the summer, that air on BBC Radio and TV. Two years ago, they did a Doctor Who special, The Music Of The Spheres , with David Tennant on a prerecorded insert, and plenty of monsters on stage mucking about to the music. This year, Matt Smith did it in person. The performance also follows the tradition of the British pantomime, full of overblown performances, &#8220;I can&#8217;t hear you&#8221; shout outs and dragging audience members out from the crowd to participate. As he did in the scene below&#8230; Except this time, faced with eight year old Ellis, Matt Smith had to improvise heavily as Ellis was ahead of Smith much of the way. And gave him the kind of stare that would cause most to collapse in fear and dread. Do enjoy, it is very silly, very juvenile but absolutely hilarious. The show also starred Karen Gillen and Arthur Darvill, betten known as Amy and Rory Pond from the TV show. And a bnch of Daleks, Cybermen, Venice Vampires, Silurians and Judoon, ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coolorama.com/bleeding-cool/the-day-matt-smith-was-out-acted-by-an-eight-year-old-child/</link>
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		<title>Win! With Going The Distance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I rather liked Going the Distance &#8211; but more on that later in the week, just ahead of its release this Friday, September 10th. For now, a contest by which you can win some rather nice themed bits and bobs: Three winners will get the Soundtrack, Flight Dopp Kit, Mens’ Moustache T Shirt, Ladie’s Map T Shirt, Mens’ San Fran Bound T Shirt, Ladies’ NY Bound T Shirt, Caps, Laundry Bag, Motion Pen, Man Tissues, Tattos and Coasters. One uberwinner will also get a &#8221;Long distance romance Kit&#8221;, Dart Board Game and Weekend Bag. Just to make this postman-straining competition even more like The Gadget Show , here&#8217;s a picture of all of those prizes scattered across a white backdrop: Lots of prizes. So here&#8217;s the question Warner Bros. want to test you with: Going the Distance is directed by an Academy Award® -nominated documentary filmmaker, who makes her film directorial debut. Name the director. Send the answer to me via e-mail and include your address. The film is out this Friday, 10th September. I want to remind you of one  previous Bleeding Cool story that mentioned the film . Not that there&#8217;s an answer in there or anything. Nor on the film&#8217;s official Facebook page &#8230; Ahem. Going the Distance is © 2010 Warner Bros. Entertainment. All Rights Reserved ]]></description>
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		<title>Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "Following Qualcomm, Samsung is also close to launching a new smartphone processor with two cores. Based on ARM architecture, the new Orion processor promises five times the graphics performance of current chips and to enable 1080p video recording and playback. Next year, it seems, dual-core smart phones will be all the rage. Apple, which is generally believed to have the most capable processor in the market today, may be under pressure to roll out a dual-core iPhone next year as well." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coolorama.com/uncategorized/dual-core-cpu-opens-door-to-1080p-on-smartphones/</link>
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		<title>Meet the Rauch Brothers, StoryCorps animators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Today on our homepage, we’re featuring a new batch of StoryCorps videos animated by the Rauch Brothers. If you want to be moved by the human experience, watch them now. StoryCorps is a massive oral history project during which 50,000 everyday people have already interviewed friends and family. A handful of these are transformed by the Rauch Brothers, who look to animate universal stories that capture the joys, struggles and extraordinary lives of regular people. Here, in our ongoing series of Creator’s Corner posts , the animators take you along their creative journey and name the YouTube users who in turn inspire them. 1) What is your process?]]></description>
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		<title>Stan the Man Confirms A Doctor Strange Movie!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ (Post by nerdbastards contributor Nick Bungay- Twitter @NickBungay ) During a recent Stan Lee (If you don&#8217;t know who he is, then email your address so I can drive to your house and punch you in the face) panel it was let loose by &#8220;the man&#8221; that a Doctor Strange movie is in fact in the works. Special thanks to AICN&#8230; &#8220;During the panel on Saturday, Stan Lee was talking about his cameo appearances in the recent Marvel movies, and he mentioned that he had not yet shot his cameo for Capt. America, and that there was still Avengers and Dr. Strange to do. This was the first I&#8217;d heard of a Dr. Strange movie. So, Sunday I went to his panel again and got up and asked asked him about it. He said he hated to frustrate me, but all he knew was that there is a Dr. Strange movie in the works, but he didn&#8217;t know if they had a director, writer, cast, or really anything about it. Not much, but at least it&#8217;s a little hope. Personally, I&#8217;d like to see David Lynch direct Johnny Depp in this.&#8221; David Lynch &#038; Johnny Depp would be Fantastic but more importantly, this is the first major motion picture project for Doctor Strange. Sure there was that animated feature &#8216; Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme &#8216; back in 2008, but we all know that sucked crystal balls. There may be a little worry to what this film will become though. This is the first Marvel film generated under the Disney banner since Disney bought Marvel for $4 billion dollars just over a year ago. Doctor Strange currently has no cast as of yet and nobody attached to direct. Dr. Strange, is a Marvel comics character, Earth&#8217;s &#8220;Sorcerer Supreme&#8221; who dabbles in the mystic arts. Last we heard, Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer have been hired to write the script for the film.These two have quite the list of projects that they have worked on: the new Conan film, scripted the live-action adaptation of the video games, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for Sony Pictures, and a draft of Jon Favreau’s upcoming Cowboys &#038; Aliens. source: comicbookmovie ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coolorama.com/nerdbastards-com/stan-the-man-confirms-a-doctor-strange-movie/</link>
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		<title>Premier Chat 006: Kyle Wiens, cofounder of iFixit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Announcing another in our series of subscriber-only features: a live, moderated webchat with Kyle Wiens. Kyle is the cofounder of the extremely popular gadget repair site iFixit. iFixit started out providing tear-down guides, tools, and replacement parts for Apple products, but has since spread out to all manner of gadgets from phones to video game consoles. iFixit's primary mission is to make the world a cleaner and better place by reducing gadget waste through educational tools like free and open repair guides in addition to providing access to hard-to-find tools and parts. This live chat is only available to Ars Premier subscribers , and begins at 1pm CDT on Wednesday, September 8 ( see it in your own timezone ). The discussion will center on iFixit's mission of educating individuals on repairing their gadgets (rather than tossing them) and their adventures in dissecting the latest hot gadgetry. Read the comments on this post ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coolorama.com/ars-technica/premier-chat-006-kyle-wiens-cofounder-of-ifixit/</link>
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