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Amazon To Destroy iPad In One Move? That Easy?
It hasn’t been that long since I mocked Amazon for imminently announcing a new tablet to the world based on an older version of Android based purely on their weight in the Kindle space. Well, today the online vendor that we all know and love brought us not one major tablet announcement, but several geared directly at undermining Apple’s iPad share. Will Cupertino be able to release $500 tablets after this when Amazon is filling out the range below? We’ll certainly see. Key points after the break!
Terra Nova – TV Review – Dino Damage!
In the opening shots of Terra Nova, we’re shown an Earth on the brink of collapse: a sky full of deadly brown smoke, people being forced to use rebreathers indoors until they get into oxygen-friendly safe zones and, y’know, dystopia. It’s like Al Gore’s greatest dream accomplished, this is what you have done to the Earth, humanity! he would say. Jim Shannon and his family are enjoying the rare treat of an orange when the five-oh stop in and find his young, third child (which is strictly verboten in the 22nd century, it turns out). Shannon goes to prison and through some trickery, ends up back with his family on their way through a time portal to Terra Nova. On the other side? A trip back 85 million years. And dinosaurs.
iPhone 5 To Be Unveiled On October 4th, Still Not Be As Cool As Android
Well, it looks like it’s finally here: Apple is set to unveil the next iPhone in just over a week. Now, we’ve talked about this thing before and there’s been plenty of leaks, but now we’re going to see the real deal and odds are, we’re going to see new CEO Tim Cook unveiling the thing. He’s not quite the stage presence that Jobs was, but I guess we can take the old lug! At this point, it remains to be seen whether this is going to be a single-model unveiling or perhaps several, but Apple has a long way to go if they want to beat Android at this point.
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Pan Am – TV Review – Not Quite Airborne
In the 60s, Pan Am wasn’t just an airline, it was the airline. In a tribute to that period, ABC’s new drama uses the Pan Am name to interesting (and perhaps cheap) effect to thatch a world-trotting, Cold War-era plot line. The stars here are the six crew of the Clipper Majestic, on her inaugural flight in the pilot episode, and their intertwined adventures told through a series of flashbacks and coincidences. But how much can a show rest its fate on the stories of four airline stewardesses?
The Real Issues With The New Facebook
I guess a lot of you use Facebook? Maybe you’ve heard about the changes? Hm? Lots of people have opinions on the new stuff that the world’s largest social network is implementing and there’s been a lot of uproar and blah-de-blah about giving away information (those people comprise the Island of Misfit Toys) and some stuff that isn’t even true. Regardless, now having spent some time with the new Timeline feature and some of the cooler aspects of the new service, which I love, there are some niggling aspects to this newest wave of changes that just don’t iron my coat right. Or microwave my dinners properly. Well, whatever, here’s the stuff that really needs to be fixed up or changed for the service to truly emerge unscathed.
The Coolest Spaceship Designs In Science Fiction
I’m just going to warn you right up front: this article is going to get extremely nerdy extremely fast. That said it’s time I, the expert ogler of spaceship designs at FleshEatingZipper, decided to go over the best fictional spaceship designs that our collective imagination has ever committed to production. I did my best to only pick one vessel from each major franchise (so sadly, I didn’t get to include my beloved TIE Defender) so with that said, let’s start with a few ships I didn’t pick: the Serenity from Firefly (above). Ship is ugly, on top of that, thirteen episodes and a movie (named after it, impressively) just isn’t enough time to fall in love with a ship that absolutely janky. Also: Discovery from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Classic, but so boring. So let’s move on to the stuff I did pick!
Moneyball – Movie Review – Why I Believe You Got Math In My Baseball
“Would I have been your first round pick?” Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) says, lounging while on the phone with Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a young Economics major from Yale. “Yeah, you were a good player.” But Beane laughs him off. “Seriously, would I be your first round pick?” A pause. “Ninth round, no signing bonus.” Early on, we see a young Beane just out of high school impress some talent scouts for the New York Mets. He takes the once-in-a-lifetime deal to play pro ball over a full-ride scholarship and ultimately fails to be the star player they picked him for. Now general manager of the Oakland A’s, the mathematical scheme Peter proposes to him can boil Beane and other players down to mere statistics through objective analysis. He can then take those players, undervalued by the broad baseball community for either their stance or party lifestyle, and create a playoff-ready team after a series of departures gut his lineup. It won’t be easy for Beane to convince his partners, though…
Amazon Announces Tablet Announcement Announcement
AMAZON SEEKS TO RULE TABLET UNIVERSE BY SHIFTING PARADIGMS, CHANGING HOW YOU THINK AND DO THINGS
Also, because they can.
SEATTLE, AMAZON HEADQUARTERS (HQ), Sep 23, 2011 (FEZWEB)
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today its announcement in respect to its highly-rumored, previously unconfirmed, and possibly non-existent new tablet. The titanic internet e-tailer, vendor of all things has nothing official to say, but will vaguely respond to various rumors about the device’s (or devices’) features. Media: please ignore the Amazon-branded pre-release tablets we sent you for review purposes (pictured above in reference shot).
Why Is Bethesda Being Such A Jerk To Interplay Over Their Fallout MMO?
This is going to date me, but there was a common expression on the official Fallout 2 boards that went “you’d have to be a FOOL to want FallOut OnLine” primarily because of gameplay/integrity concerns. Well, this week, a court denied Bethesda (makers of The Elder Scrolls and current owner of the Fallout IP) yet another injunction against Interplay, original owner of the IP, in their production of a Fallout MMO. The two have been in a persistent slap fight for the past few years, instigated entirely by Bethesda, and it seems that there’s very little rhyme or reason behind it aside from sheer malice. But first, a little back story…
Google+ Is Doomed
There’s an adage that the most popular posts on Google+ are either about Google+ or how it compares to Facebook. We were indifferent to the web titan’s social networking platform when it launched in July and in the months since then, there’s been nothing to change my mind. It seems to have become a shantytown for people to abandon Facebook, and ultimately their friends, for something different. With today’s unveiling of Timeline, the next big leap in how your profile there will look and function, the irrational cries against it have resurfaced while Google+, still a pale imitation of an older version of the service, looks appropriately destined for the dustbin of internet history.
