A roaming, self-recharging wifi boosting robot, complete with webcam and speakers? It can navigate your house all by itself? It wants to kill John Connor? And he can be controlled by your computer, iPhone, or even the PS3?
Okay, that’s kinda cool.
[via Think Geek]
In no particular order, for no paticular reason, here are a few random thoughts from this past weekend.
It is impossible, at least for me, to watch the LoTR special editions without liberal use of the fast-forward button or a healthy supply of alcohol (preferably both). Advantage Star Wars.
Yes Hank Williams, Jr., I am ready for some football.
Best Buy seems to be having an awful lot of trouble keeping recently released blu-rays in stock (such as Kick-Ass). Are they under-estimating the market, or simply buying less inventory? Advantage Amazon.com
Hey Wendy’s, how does purchasing three items from the $.99 menu get me a $4 bill? Was that extra eighty-cents put towards not giving me a receipt?
Meet the fastest school bus ever made. What makes it so fast, you ask? It could be the painted flames on the sides. Or, perhaps more likely, it could be the custom-fitted General Electric J-79 jet engine taken from a F4 Phantom fighter jet. Yeah, I’m going with the second one. Driving down the street at 367mph and shooting out an 80ft flame behind you, yeah, that’s getting to school in style.
[via Auto Motto]
In case you weren’t aware, Step Brothers is the greatest achievement ever in cinema ever.
Okay, it’s not. But at the rate that I, a film dork, think back to the Comedy Extroardinaire from Will Ferrell and frequent collaborator writer / director Adam McKay, it certainly would seem to own a spot on AFI’s top hundred. Following up solid laughers Anchorman and Talladega Nights, the McKay / Ferrell team has proved maybe the most bankable in Hollywood when it comes to laughs. If you’ve gone the past six years without someone quoting a Ron Burgundy line to you, it’s because you haven’t talked to anyone the past six years.
And, as a fan of the divisive Step Brothers, I, more than most, was totally excited for McKay and Ferrell’s newest film, The Other Guys. Maybe it’s because of these high expectations, but this fourth film from the duo appears to be the first hiccup, and unfortunately not a small one.
When Capn said he got a hybrid, I did not realize it was this awesome. Shotgun!
Tim Drake‘s been shot! Or has he? Plenty of twists and turns have been packed into “The Assassination of Tim Drake.” Although I like the idea of showcasing how far Drake will go to protect his legacy I do take some issue with a storyline that has him pretending to be severely injured by a gunshot in an issue that mentions, but doesn’t include, Barbara Gordon. It’s just a little…unseemly. I’m assuming Babs will weigh-in on this elaborate plan to throw Vicki Vale off the scent of the Bat-family, and I’m hopeful that the moment will be given the time and weight it deserves. At the same time, if he had weighed the effect of such a plan on one of his closest allies and went forward anyway, it does help push Red Robin further into a morally ambiguous gray area which should give plenty of opportunities for new stories. Hit-and-Miss.
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“Between Bears” is beautiful animated short by Eran Hilleli, set to the music of Ori Avni and Daniela Spector, which tells its story without the need of even a single line of dialogue.
Star Trek rarely outdoes Star Wars but that Star Wars wall mural we shared with you pales in comparison to the undeniable awesomeness of this full-sized Enterprise Bridge wall mural. WANT!!!!
