Clues from the Comics About Batman’s Fate in The Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman film comes out next month, and we’ve been promised an epic climax. But what will actually happen to the Dark Knight in The Dark Knight Rises? Batman expert Will Brooker, author of the new book Hunting the Dark Knight: 21st Century Batman, has studied the trailers and viral marketing,…
Oracle Ordered to Pay Google’s Costs in Latest Legal Humiliation
Fresh from losing a critical battle in its fight with Google over Java and Android, Oracle has now been shamed a little more thanks to the judge ordering it to pay Google’s legal fees. One of the conditions attached to Oracle’s repeated attempts as filing the case was put in place by Judge William Alsup,…
During World War I, fake trees for snipers would pop up overnight
The “O.P. Tree” was an Observation Post Tree deployed during World War I. Its “goal,” as author Hanna Rose Shell explains in Hide and Seek, her newly published history of the relationship between camouflage and photography, “was to craft a mimetic representation of a tree-and not just any tree, but a particular tree at a…
