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New Chapter Of Watchmen Motion Comics Released

It’s been way too long since iTunes updated the latest in the Watchmen motion comics series. But now the second chapter is finally up and you can get your fill of man-voiced women and find out what’s with all the tension between The Comedian and Sally Jupiter is really about. Plus more Rorschach. [Watchmen Motion…

Dream Captcha: Type The Characters You See Here For Nightmare Protection

Spam bots deserve every nightmare. Jeffrey Augustine’s Dream Captcha updates a familiar faux-cultural symbol with the security layer consumers expect from their nocturnal hallucination protection device. [Jeffrey Augustine via Neat-o-Rama]

RIM Finally Realizes BlackBerry Users Might Own a Mac

The BlackBerry syncing situation on Macs is, to put it lightly, abysmal (from RIM anyway). But it looks they’re finally realizing people who own Blackberrys might just use a Mac too! Boy Genius brings us the first look at their BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac, a clean, appropriately Mactastic version of their standard PC program…

Supreme Court to Rule on FCCs Fines for Casual Swearing

This is America, the land of the free, where we can say and do what we please without some government overlord pushing us around about it. And there’s a landmark case coming up before the Supreme Court on November 4th, election day, dealing with just this: the right to accidentally drop the F-bomb on live…

This Week’s Comics Have Something For Everyone… Even Monkey Fetishists

It had to happen; after the relatively quiet weeks of yore, this Wednesday sees a deluge of good stuff to your local comic book store. Whether you’re looking for secret histories of your favorite superheroes, happier times for your favorite cancelled TV shows, something to make you pretend that the Speed Racer movie never happened,…

MSI Wind Gets 9-Cell Battery, Unofficially

If you’re willing to buy from a third party vendor, the MSI Wind now has an impressive 7800mAh, 9-cell battery available for preorder. Priced at $180, it’s not an inexpensive upgrade and it weighs a whole pound. Then again, it’ll give you roughly 6 hours of run time according to my real-world calculations. Lion Battery…

Holographic Television Coming Soon

We use high-definition television, dark rooms, and surround sound to create an immersive media experience. But for those who want television that more closely resembles the holodeck, there’s good news. A University of Arizona research team has made a significant breakthrough in 3-D displays that could put holographic sets on the market in five to…

460,000-Brick Lego Tower Breaks World Record

At 96.73 feet (29.485 meters) this Lego tower built in the Rathaus Platz in Vienna has broken the world record for the tallest Lego construction in the world. It took nearly 460,000 bricks and it was built over four days. The views from the top are quite stunning. The tower included 121 plates designed and…

What Will Remain of Us 100 Million Years After the Apocalypse?

What will be left of humanity in 100 million years? Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester suggests that hyper-evolved rats or aliens (his picks for future scientists) will find scant clues. There will be faint fossils and chemical traces, all packed into thin layers of rock easily disrupted by water, weather and geologic…

The Recycled Plastic Bag Chair is Anything but Trashy

Anyone who’s read about the sickening, Great Pacific Garbage Patch will know that plastic is a danger to the environment. But this plastic bag chair will make it all OK for the next few minutes as the reality of man destroying the planet melts away to cute furniture. Designed by Ryan Frank, the seat is…

Asus S101 Looks Thin and Pretty In Real Life, Too

While I thought the Asus S101 (or generic Macbook Air, as I’m pretty much insisting on inaccurately calling it from now to eternity) looked great in its CG mockup, these new, real photos reveal the truth: The Asus S101 won’t quite fool anyone into thinking you’re using a some $2,000 computer, but at .7 inches…

Attack Of The Giant Leeches Reboot!

Finally someone is remaking a scifi movie that I’m not terribly upset about. In fact I think I could watch numerous reboots of Attack Of The Giant Leeches and never get tired of the big, black, blood-sucking creatures. The 1959 Roger Corman classic is getting remade by My Dead Girlfriend indie director Brett Kelly, who…

Guitar Hero: World Tour Gets Deluxe $240 Version, Rips You Off

If you’re looking to pick up Guitar Hero: World tour when it comes out on October 26th, you’ll have a choice between the wussy regular edition and the awesome deluxe edition. While yes, we may be headed for an economic depression, you’ll still want to spend the extra $50 on the deluxe edition. It comes…

BlackBerry Storm Official Announcement to Hit Tomorrow?

So says Time.com, in their roundup of BlackBerry Storm blogosphere rumors posted today: RIM declined TIME’s request for comment on the leaked information about the Storm. But with a formal announcement expected by Wednesday, the Web buzz that began this spring about the hot new BlackBerry has turned into a roar. So if you were…

We love wasting hours at the Speech Accent archive at George Mason University. Where else can you listen to the English accents found on the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia? The mad linguists behind this archive’s recordings found someone to say, “We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids”…

Steve Ballmer Says That Vista Capable Debacle Totally Not His Fault

Bailing on his court appearance in the class-action lawsuit over the fact that “Vista Capable” computers were utter pieces of crap packed with sucky chips that were “capable” of running Vista in only the thinnest, most literal interpretation of term, Steve Ballmer delivered a written deposition that excused himself of all responsibility. “I was not…

Guillermo del Toro: No Shirtlessness in My Frankenstein

While cautiously talking to press about the plot for his upcoming Frankenstein movie, Guillermo “Hellboy” del Toro revealed that he’s not going to do yet another origins story that is all the rage in Hollywood these days. Thankfully you’ll find del Toro’s monster fully-formed and on the road to adventure. Without any mostly-naked companions.Guillermo Del…

AMD Breaks Up

As a former AMD fanboy, this is kind of sad news. AMD will be splitting up into two companies—one that designs chips, and another that makes ’em. The constant need to build expensive new chip plants was a big drag on AMD, which lags behind Intel on multiple fronts. Intel is now the only company…

This Week in Blu-ray: Sleeping Beauty of Death Edition

Giz Pick of the Week: Sleeping Beauty Yes, Blu-ray is a high definition gimmick to make you repurchase old movies. But in the case of Sleeping Beauty, Disney claims that the original 70mm print has never been viewed with less image cropping than on BD—even in theaters. Presented in super wide 2.55:1, if the image…

Heroes Has Lost Its Spirit Guide and Is Growing Slime Fingers

Last night’s Heroes returned to a problem the show had in its first season — too many characters doing too many random things — without returning to that season’s strengths. What was rewarding about that season was that we watched our main characters coming together and pulling the narrative threads of the show into an…