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A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.
- Celebrity pin-ups! Technically SFW, but also HOT. (Via)
- ExplosionsAndBoobs.com offers... just what it says! In equal measure. The boobs are all covered, though, as far as we've seen, so it's again technically SFW. (Via)
- Check out the trailer for Pandorum. Looks like a new take on Alien/Aliens. Which is funny, because apparently Alien is going to be the next franchise to get a reboot.
- One of our favorite contemporary directors, Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom), talks about his next film: a time travel drama called Looper.
- This is a post from back in January, so many of you may have seen it already. In fact, we may even have seen it before. We have a bad memory. But the point is, it's very funny, and well worth another look! Hilariously awful English subtitles for a bootleg copy of Star Wars: Episode III. (Via)
- A wonderful new service: Twitter on Paper. (Via)
- Mmmm... brown sugar bacon waffles (via Sarah). Also, the cookie cake pie (via).
- 6 movies with far more depressing alternate endings. (Via)
- 15 horribly sexist vintage ads. (Via)
- Knitted meerkats in Star Trek uniforms. (Via)
- Captain Kirk meets Batman in Alexander the Great! (Via)
- MovieStinger.com tells you which movies have extra scenes after the credits. (Via)
- A couple of amusing recent tweets from Neil Gaiman.
- Wondermark gives us a beard championships wrap up.
- Wired lists some exciting new germ busters that could even defeat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
- The story of a handcrafted CPU.
- Wired picks out the 10 oddest photos it could find in NASA's massive image archive.
- A federal judge has ruled that LifeLock's fraud alert service is illegal. D'oh!
- We're still trying to get used to this whole phenomenon of book trailers, but here's one for Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain.
- A review, and a metareview, of the highly anticipated video game inFamous.
- A 32GB iPhone is apparently on the way.
- How to build your own outdoor movie theater.
- Seven female TV stars who should be in more movies.
- Cinematical talks about the fact that blood appears on screen in Up. Also, an interview with director Pete Docter.
- Michel Gondry's documentary The Thorn in the Heart will apparently get a theatrical release, although the buzz is not so good.
- Japanese author Kôji Suzuki has written Drop, "a setting-suitable novella that comes printed on rolls of toilet paper."
- 100 best movie lines in 200 seconds. Some great selections, but also some really lame ones. Regardless, fun concept.
- Adult film star Sasha Grey, now crossing over into traditional film, picks her five favorite films, which are surprisingly arty—until number one. Heh.
- The first look at the Scratch: The Ultimate DJ controller, and a comparison of that controller with the controller for DJ Hero.
- How about a free David Byrne track?
- Underwire shows off some preview images from the upcoming landmark 600th issue of Captain America.
- David Tennant is still playing the Doctor! Sort of.
- You've probably already heard about the zombie film called Colin that only cost $70 to make. Here's some details, and the trailer.
- Devo vs. Space Invaders.
- Dance Dance Immolation is simple enough: it's just Dance Dance Revolution, but if you do poorly, you get shot in the face with flame throwers.
- A hands-on report about the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game. Also, video of the multiplayer mode.
- The Castlevania movie appears to have been canceled.
- A very negative review of the Terminator Salvation video game. Wow, everything connected to that movie is bad!
- Joystiq continues its series of E3 bingo cards with a Nintendo-themed edition.
- Freddie Prinze Jr. is joining the cast of 24.
- Two behind-the-scenes images from the filming of Iron Man 2 at Edwards Air Force Base.
- IMAX is giving James Cameron's Avatar a three-month run on its screens.
- Zombie Jello mold.
- Video of a dice-rolling machine in action. "The Dice-O-Matic is used to roll dice for online games hosted by GamesByEmail so that there are actually physical dice being used instead of a program."
- Avery included Tyler Durden's address on the packaging for its shipping labels.
- A vintage TV commercial for Pac-Man Cereal starring a very young Christian Bale. (Via)
Image Credit: Flickr user liber
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Alright, there's just no nice way to say it: Pandorum looks absolutely dreadful, and there is no reason whatsoever to reboot Alien, except perhaps to erase the disgrace of the AVP movies as the last Alien installments. Don't eff with perfection.
Huh. I thought Pandorum looked kind of neat, actually. Not original, certainly, but not awful.
I'd be curious to see what they'd do with an Alien reboot, but yes, it would definitely be hard to top the original.