Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out, Borders.
The dust has semi-settled since news of Borders financial troubles and probable demise. And as a result, Borders will be closing 200 of it’s superstores starting this weekend. To give you an idea of the scale of closures, 5 out of 18 stores will be the only operating Borders in the state of Arizona. Are we witnessing the imminent death of the book store?
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Movie Review: Unknown
I don’t know how it happened, but European thrillers – plump with car chases, beautiful photography, and even more beautiful scenery – seem inexorably tied to blustery, winter nights here in Colorado. Last year, it was From Paris With Love, the year before it was Transporter 3 and Taken, and so forth. It also seems fitting that Unknown takes place on a snowed-over Berlin: it’s like those dastardly Europeans are tapping into my brain. What I’m trying to get at is, at the end of the day, is this newest Liam Neeson joint worth scraping off the windshield? Hmmm…
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Movie Review: I Am Number Four
I’m not entirely sure where this rash of films adapted from youth-oriented novels came from, but it’s been a mixed bag so far. For every Harry Potter, there’s a Golden Compass, for every Diary of a Wimpy Kid, there’s a City of Ember, and for every Chronicles of Narnia film there’s another, more lousy Chronicles of Narnia film. Although I read books sometimes, I needed Wikipedia to understand that this is supposed to be the starting point of a six book/film arc, but it’s hardly a great beginning at all. In fact, I Am Number Four is pretty lousy, like a Narnia film.
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How Big Does A Smartphone Screen Need To Be?
On a recent podcast, we chatted a bit about phones and their screen sizes. While Johnny’s former Blackberry was laughably small at 2.5in, his new Windows Phone (HTC HD7 w/4.3in screen) was on the way to shame the rest of us. So, how does your phone stack up? How big is too big? How small is too small?
Book Review: Dan Dunn’s “Living Loaded: Tales of Sex, Salvation and the Pursuit of the Never-Ending Happy Hour”
Until now, I hadn’t really pondered the professional drinker. I’m not talking about wine tasting here (although it is pointed out as one of Dan’s weak points) but rather the stone-livered specimen who travels across the country exclusively to sample the wares. Recommended by the It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Facebook page (good lookin’ out!) it only took a brief, hilarious sample on Amazon before it was in my Kindle app.
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President Obama Having Dinner with Tech Executives (Except Steve Ballmer)
Last night President Obama visited San Francisco to have dinner with some big tech executives including Steve Jobs (Apple), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Eric Schmidt (Google), Carol Bartz (Yahoo!), John Chambers (Cisco), Dick Costolo (Twitter), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Reed Hastings (Netflix) and a few others.
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Do People Really Examine Game Graphics This Much? Digital Foundry and Head2Head Do!
Y’know, I did my bit of a graphics whorin’ back in 2001, when the comparison was a lot more exciting. I was an Xbox guy, so anyone who argued their console hardware or game had better graphics than Halo or Dead Or Alive 3 was high as a kite. Nowadays, we have not one, but two sites dedicated to these tight comparisons, which . . . it’s just not human.
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Jurassic Park: The Game (Debut Trailer)
Telltale, who recently created and released a new Back to the Future episodic game, is now bringing Jurassic Park back to life in the same manner. This spring, you’ll be able to prance around Isla Sorna while the first movie takes its course. Rather than accompanying Dr. Alan Grant or Ian Malcolm, Telltale is giving us a new story and characters to follow.
Trailer’s after the break.
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Movie Review: Rambo (2008)
The following review was written by guest contributor Sam.
Directed, written, produced and starring Sylvester Stallone, Rambo makes for an interesting movie in its own right, but there’s a handsome benefit in having seen the previous movies in the series before diving in here.
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FEZcast Tech & Stuff 02-17-2011
Hey, you come around here often? Anyone sitting here? Listen, if I told you that you have a nice FleshEatingZipper Tech & Stuff Podcast, would you hold it against me? It’s true – in this podcast the gang talks about WebOS, Nokia and Windows Phone 7 making nice, Apple becoming the biggest tech company in the world, iPhone 5 rumors, bankruptcy at Borders, HBGary and more!
If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I and F-E-Z together.
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