Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Take a look over at the sidebar, and vote in our first poll, ‘What are you most looking forward to in 2008?’
It’s not technically our first poll, as old-timers may recall, but that was back when the site was teal and at a URL I no longer remember and thus can’t look up on the Wayback Machine.
Future polls will (hopefully) be slightly more imaginative.
Now this is a shocker… Celebration Japan will be July 19 to 21 at the Makuhari-Messe Convention Center in Chiba, outside of Tokyo.
Gawker’s sci-fi blog gets a look inside, peek at upcoming games.
Cinematical has a “super delegate secret spy source” on what’s going down with the Fanboys re-edits. The cancer remains cut, there’s a new editor, and on the whole, it doesn’t sound too promising:
Here’s where it gets messy: Apparently, both versions were screened for test audiences — and the new version only tested two points higher than the old version. My super delegate source also claims plants may have been in the audience — there to pursuade moviegoers to vote against the original version — but this has not been proven. In two days, after the old version was screened, Brill re-cut the film and they tested it again — this time it was tighter, dirtier and contained nudity, lots of F-bombs, the whole works. And even with all that, it still only tested two points higher than the old version. But since Weinstein had to justify the fact that they spent an extra $2 million on the re-shoots, they went with the newer, flashier, Without a Paddle-esque version of Fanboys.
Oh Hollywood, can you never leave well enough alone?
TFN came across a post saying that The Clone Wars will be screening on March 15th in Vegas… In 3-D?
The latest model, from Carissa Knits. (via)
Created by Tom Spina Designs for a home theater/office. Check out their theme props gallery for some other Star Wars pieces. (via Boing Boing, who also featured an Antique-D2)
Watch out for the teenagers… The New York Times says:
Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The X Files.” On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls.
Not that there’s anything wrong with the Lone Gunman. Well… maybe a little. As long as you bathe, boys. Daily.
Sadly, the figures for adult women are not quite as good. At least, when only looking at computer science programs, which seems a bit narrow-minded. I for one have a ‘web job,’ went into school knowing what I wanted and my degree is in fine art. There are a lot of ways to come at technology: Do you really think all those girls making icons and blogging and podcasting are going to go major in computer science? If they want to continue their hobbies professionally they’ll go for something a lot more specialized.
Carrie Fisher is performing at the Berkeley Rep in “Wishful Drinking“, a one-woman show she wrote about her life. I’m guessing that we saw some snippets from that show in the ‘Evening with Carrie Fisher’ at Celebration IV. Based on that, I’d recommend it highly.
Edward Guthmann of the SF Chronicle has a review.