Across the Ist-a-Verse
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you.
- RunPee is a brilliant idea for a movie review website. It tells you which times during the movie it's safe to go pee! (Via)
- Famous movies rewritten for Twitter. (Via)
- In a short interview, Obama talks Star Trek and gives the interviewer the Vulcan salute. He is now officially our favorite president ever (via). And while we're talking Trek, meet TuSpock—half Vulcan, half gangsta rapper. Also, turns out Captain Kirk has got a little Han Solo in him (via).
- Terminator Salvation opens today! Our review is coming soon, but meanwhile you can check out reviews from Cinematical, Underwire, and Sci Fi Wire. There's also an interview with director McG, and some bad news about the PC version of the video game. Related: How to turn a robot evil in nine easy steps (via).
- The 10 craziest products inspired by bacon (via). Also, beef jerky underwear.
- The first reviews (via) of Tarantino's frustratingly titled Inglourious Basterds are pouring out. Also, you can buy Brad Pitt's coat from the movie.
- Warner Bros. Interactive recently acquired the Lord of the Rings license, and its first game will be The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest. It's "created specifically for kids and their families" and features "accessible gameplay set in a friendly, colorful rendition of Middle-Earth." Guh.
- A robot that can make a Darth Vader head out of plastic, and then play "The Imperial March." (Via)
- Honey baked ham cupcakes! Yum! (Via Sarah)
- An odd commercial about a furniture store that is beloved by both black and white people. Thank you, Weird Al.
- Gizmodo explains how electrocution kills you, with a little help from Adam "Mythbuster" Savage. (Via)
- Photos from the upcoming sci-fi film District 9. (Via)
- Tweeting Too Hard gives self-important tweets the recognition they deserve. (Via)
- Epicenter reassures us that the looming GPS crisis isn't really that big a crisis, and there are ways to avoid it.
- A look at whether gore really makes video games better.
- Wired presents a gallery of fun photos from the "Extreme Mammals" exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History.
- DIY satellites? Wow. Also, NASA has a plan to save the stuck Spirit rover.
- That MLK movie might not make it to the screen after all.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky's latest project, King Shot, will begin shooting this October.
- There are more than enough American remakes of foreign films, so how about some foreign remakes of American films?
- The response from IMAX about the controversy over IMAX screen sizes.
- A film is coming in IMAX 3D about the Blue Man Group getting slipped inside of someone's head. Nice!
- The best way to tweet while drunk: do it anonymously, and with a giant text field that you can't miss.
- THQ is sending the Queen of England a gold-plated Wii.
- Details on upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront titles.
- Playing video games is surpassing going to see movies as an entertainment pastime.
- Spielberg talks about the future of gaming. Also, TNT just ordered a pilot for an untitled alien invasion TV series from him and DreamWorks TV.
- Aliens Vs Predator details, screenshots, and trailer.
- Joystiq gives a positive review to inFamous.
- Sci Fi Wire talks to John Ratzenberger about his work with Pixar.
- A trailer and clips from Fox's upcoming comic book-based series, Human Target.
- Martin Campbell is directing Green Lantern, so it's maybe not a huge surprise that his wife, Sol Romero, is going to have a role in the film. She also thinks it's going to be bigger than those other comic book movies, including Spider-Man. Good to know!
- LEGO movie posters.
- An interesting link in human evolution seems to have been found.
- A digital clock made out of analog clocks. Brilliant!
- Want Goliath's sword? It's for sale on Craigslist.
- The fake shark attack wet suit.
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