Here are the wedding announcements of some hilariously named couples. For the sake of their kids, they should never hyphenate them. Of course, I wouldn’t complain too much if my last name was “Best-Lay”.
Category Archives: BTW
The Office: The Video Game
The Office is spinning off a video game. Yeah, I wouldn’t have bet on that, either. It’s marketed towards casual gamers, and will only be on handhelds (e.g., Nintendo DS) and PCs.
Spy Hunter: The Movie
Variety reports on Universal making a movie of the old Spy Hunter video game. I can remember countless hours playing that in arcades and on my Apple IIc. Apparently, this is a revival of the project, which was originally to be directed by John Woo and starring The Rock. This seems, directorially, a step down. No idea if The Rock is still playing The Lead.
Movie News
Some interesting film news. The Hughes Brothers, who did From Hell, are directing a film version of Kung Fu. And apparently Blizzard Entertainment has commissioned a script for Diablo. No word on whether it’s live action or animated, but I’d always heard those slick, 3D rendered cinematics were done as practice for a movie. Perhaps that’s it. And Robert Rodriguez, fresh off of Planet Terror (aka, Grindhouse part I), will be doing a remake of Barbarella. I never saw the first, but I’m sure this will be entertaining. No word on who will star, succeeding Jane Fonda. Rosario Dawson, perhaps?
Icon Wars
Amusing animation about your desktop after hours. I loved the ending.
Welcome Your New Robot Masters
Paul Graham writes about the first anthropomorphic dynamically balancing robot. Basically, that means it walks like a human, but not in a pre-programmed way that requires a hard, flat surface, like Honda’s robot. The article has interesting background info, plus video. Waiting for commentary by Crack Team robot expert Masterchief. Also waiting for my own personal gynoid (NSFW).
Restaurant Closures
Due to a recent conversation, I decided to look up restaurant closures in my area. It was surprisingly simple, I just Googled “
Spamalot
Normally, spammers will try to change their subject and email address to something unrelated to their wares. Well, I just got spam from somebody trying to sell me cholesterol medication, and true to form, their email address was totally disguised. It was 1bigsetofnaturalbreasts@1bigsetofnaturalbreasts.com. You fooled me again!
Free Variety
The online version of Variety is now free! I used to subscribe, but then they significantly increased their rate. Now they’ve eliminated it. I’m guessing the improved online ad market gets credit. Will Wall Street Journal Online follow suit? They already doubled their subscription price, so perhaps they’re next. Or they’ll just make twice as much money.
Skype Chat?
Skype popped up an invitation to swap contact info with the someone who sent this message: “I AM VICTOR FROM HARBIN China
the place where is world famous for ice sculpture. wanna make friend with you.I like Yaoming of Huston Rocket.” I declined. I got another one of these a while back, from Ireland, I think. When did Skype go from internet phone to global chatroom?