Friday, October 29, 2010

Portable Devices

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Sony stopped making the Walkman cassette player this week. I haven't owned a working portable cassette player in years and I never paid ...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Overlooked Horror Movies

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I've seen a few lists of best and scariest horror movies. There are a few that have been overlooked. Black Sunday - 1960. I've alwa...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Looking back at Trek

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Star Trek: The Next Generation (ST:TNG) has been in syndication for over a year. It has been over 20 years since this show premiered and mor...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Sherlock Holmes

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In the last year we have seen two very different interpretations of Sherlock Holmes. The first was a movie, set in Victorian England and sta...
Friday, October 22, 2010

The Walled Apple Garden

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Apple has long exerted total control over the IPhone. Now it is expanding this trend to its Mac line of computers. First the is the app stor...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Phone Wars 2010

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The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 was released this week with the first units actually being delivered early next month. Only a few phone compan...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Spider-Man Big Time

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Wired has a preview of a new Spider-Man story arc, Big Time. They say: Peter Parker finally gets a career and nets A-list supporting acts ...
Monday, October 04, 2010

When Vampires Were Scary

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Last Friday, TCM showed four Dracula films by Hammer Films. Three starred Christopher Lee s Dracula. Two had Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. T...
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Friday, October 01, 2010

The Flintstones

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The Flintstones turned 50 yesterday. It lasted six seasons with several follow-up spin-offs and sequels. It held the record for longest-runn...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Great Race

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Tony Curtis's obituaries include the first time he worked with Jack Lemon in Some Like it Hot but overlook their second movie, The Great...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Onslaught Crossover and Thor

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Marvel recently digitized Thor #502. This was the last continuous issue of Thor dating back his first appearance in Journey into Mystery #83...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Black Hole

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Rumor is that Disney is going to remake 1979's The Black Hole . Why? The original was rushed into production after Star Wars became a ...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Cross-comic Events

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For decades the events in one comic book pretty much stayed in that comic. No matter how momentous, only one hero or team would be involved....
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Predicting the Future

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It's a tricky business showing the future. Novels and movies usually get it wrong. The Back to the Future trilogy was on last weekend an...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Blogging from a Droid

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Ok, it can be done. The touch screen isn't too bad. It will probably get ea sier with practice. The autocomplete could be a lot better. ...
Friday, September 03, 2010

Substitutes and Inferiors

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One of the funniest superhero comic books ever published featured a team-up between Superman and the Legion of Substitute Heroes. A close se...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Using the Droid Incredible

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I've had my Droid Incredible for a few days - long enough to put it through its paces so I can put down my general impressions. First, s...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Choosing a Droid

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I spent a while at a Verizon store comparing Droid models. There are currently three top-of-the-line Droid models - the Droid X and the Droi...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Windows 95

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I got an invitation to the live-via-satellite launch of Windows 95 which was held 15 years ago today. Prior to that most people used a varia...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Somewhat Surreal

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Yesterday I was watching the movie International House on my Zune HD. This movie written as a vehicle for as many comedians and performers ...