Looks like Spider-Man 3 is digging deep into the Webhead’s long and storied Rogue’s Gallery. (guest submission from Spider-Girl Andrea)
Lost Season three secrets revealed. (guest submission from Spoiler Alert Andrea)
Cute Overload gets a Web 2.0 makeover.
Apple interviews Jerry Harrison on the Talking Heads Brick.
Kids, gather round the creepy robot lady for nightmare storytime! (spotted on David Byrne’s Journal)
Fight Club’s narrative web illustrated by Lego. (spotted on Kottke.org)
Why I’m a Mac user, reason no. 3,725. (guest submission from Dave)
Why I’m a Mac user, reason no. 3,726. I’m especially impressed by the “Simplified” Device Setup. Simple!
Why I’m a Mac user, reasons no. 3,727-3,747. (guest submission from Dave)
Wow, both sides of the isle are getting the axe. Adobe will nix Macromedia Freehand in favor of Illustrator and Adobe GoLive in favor of Dreamweaver. My belove-to-hate Macromedia Fireworks, however, lives for now. Also of note is this article about merging the two massive sites, even though it uses made-up words like “architected.”
Computers take the mystery out of Mona’s voice [no longer online: cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/31/mona.lisa.voice.reut] and smile. (guest submission from Priceless Work of Art Andrea)
I’m Level Five, if I do say so myself, with occasional and hopefully rare incidences of Level Four. (guest submission from Dave)
Another group lays claim to the Holy Land. (guest submission from Dave)
Robin has two mommies. Hooray for diversity in popular media, but imagine having to explain this one to your 8-year-old reading his first comic book. (guest submission from Secret Identity Rainbow Andrea)
Spider-Man comes to town, and he’s brought his alien symbiote buddy with him. (guest submission from Fairweather Comic Dork Andrea)
Stock photography cliches. They missed the ubiquitous asian guy with glasses (usually holding a Zip disk) who was everywhere during the dot-com boom.
Woooooo… creepy. (spotted on Fortean Times)
More awesome weirdness. (spotted on Fortean Times)
Gary Trudeau does in the funny pages what should be on the front.
The first Lost action figure is Charlie pulling a Night of the Hunter. And just as an aside, remember when action figures were poseable?
Decepticons got they ass kicked, Transformas still old-skool like Coke Classic. (guest submission from Dave)
A part useful, part nonsense Lost flowchart (no longer online: pop.wizbangblog.com/images/2006/05/lostx.php). (guest submission from Everything is Connected Andrea)
Picturehouse President Bob Berney tells the Boston Globe: “I don’t think the audience cares how the film is financed or distributed.” Well, duh! But at least somebody from Hollywood apparently gets that. (no longer online: boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2006/05/28/new_wave_of_indie_cinema_fights_power_of_hollywood)
The official Snakes on a Plane site (no loner online: snakesonaplane.com) launches a new “Snake Kit” feature… but you have to cough up your name, email, and birthdate.
AppleInsider reports on Adobe Apollo. Good news: Adobe claims it won’t merge Flash Player and Adobe Reader, as originally threatened. Bad news: looks like the corporate concept of Flash as online application development platform prevails. In other words, it’s being positioned further away from interactive designers (that is to say, me) and even more towards software engineers and programmers.
Forget Batman vs. Superman (no longer online: batman-versus-superman.com) or Jesus vs. Elvis (no longer online: infidels.org/misc/humor/jesus_vs_elvis.html), here’s the real contest: Neo vs. Robocop, Clint & Yoda (no longer online: ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2729649).
Brian Eno is on the upcoming Roxy Music album after all?
The head of music at Virgin Megastores is going around telling people vinyl is outselling cds on new releases.
Star Trek, James Bond, and Harry Potter look out. (guest submission from The Visible Woman Andrea)
Lost season finale fallout:
Hawaii’s like, “Woot!” (no longer online: myjokemail.com/cartoons/EndOfTheWorld.shtml) (guest submission from WTF Andrea)
Michael Brook’s long-gestating third solo album is due July 18: press release and liner notes & sample track (no longer online: bighelium.com/MichaelBrook.htm).
Of all the pressing health issues in the world, scientists are growing rabbit dingle-dongles? (spotted on Fortean Times)
Trade in your $20 diamond-tipped stylus for a $19,000 laser (no longer online: realtechnews.com/posts/3090). (spotted on Fortean Times)
Legos, baby, you and me make beautiful music together (no longer online: jroller.com/page/upperdowner?entry=lego_machine_music). (spotted on Iconfactory)
EW asks, is Jon Stewart a symptom or the cure? (guest submission from Likes-a-Little-Salt-in-Her-Pepper Andrea)
Jamie Hewlett (of Tank Girl and Gorillaz fame) is the London Design Museum’s Designer of the Year. Via the official Gorillaz newsletter, 2D had this to say: “Yeah, he’s definitely a top drawer. I’ve seen some of his pictures and he’s coloured them in really well. He hasn’t even gone over the edges.”
Also from the Gorillaz newsletter: Murdoc is looking for his roots.
Finally a good reason to whack your computer upside the head. (guest submission from Dave)
Lost action figures [no longer online: variety.com/article/VR1117943832?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565] from McFarlane. Seeing as how there’s already one dead character included, I guess it’s not a hint as to who might die tonight. (guest submission from Batten-Down-the-Hatches Andrea)
It was so delayed I stopped checking, but sometime in the past two weeks or so, David Byrne and Brian Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [no longer online: http://bushofghosts.wmg.com] Creative Commons remix project went live.
Speaking of Creative Commons, Pearl Jam have released Life Wasted, a music video for free download & distribution.
The dork equivalent of a strip tease. [no longer available: unboxing.com] (guest submission from Dave)
Neil Gaiman & Adam Rogers on Superman for Wired (spotted on Boing Boing). For a strikingly personal take on actually writing Superman, see Steven Seagle’s It’s a Bird…
Want to self-publish a cd or dvd, and have a chunk of change to do it right? Jewelboxing Studio.
Voltron: Defender of the Universe, awkward addition to your DVD shelf, and social lubricant.
You must be joking. I’ve seen newspaper ads advertising the glammed-up Felicity version. I predict lots of puzzled consumers.
Just discovered Cabel Sasser’s (of Panic fame) blog.
Katamari enthusiasts roll up San Francisco. Man, I ‘m living in the wrong city.
A well-written rant about photorealistic videogames also holds true as to why Polar Express was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen (yes, I’m still mad about that). (spotten on Kottke.org)
Katamari Damacy embroidery & pillow on Boing Boing.
Real-life Parrots on a Plane (no longer online: iamtv.tv/snakesonaplane). (spotted on Boing Boing)
More entertaining lunacy (no longer online: abcnews.go.com/GMA/wireStory?id=1975129) from Pat Robertson. Entertaining, that is, if you can pretend there aren’t people out there who believe he speaks for god.
Ah din’t come from no fish! (but what really interests me is that there’s a journal called The Foot?!) (spotted on Fortean Times)
People! Relax! (no longer online: cnn.com/interactive/world/0605/gallery.davinci.protest/frameset.exclude.html) It’s a novel. But hey, at least it’s bringing people together.
Thom Yorke’s new album The Eraser (no longer online: theeraser.net). The cover is gorgeous.
Dude, WTF? (spotted on Fortean Times)
Two Lost goodies linked from EW’s wrap-ups: sublymonal.com (no longer online: sublymonal.com), a kind of annoying puzzle whose solution seems to involve a lot of waiting, and the official Hanso Foundation site.
As if there was any doubt, King Tut was all man (no longer online: timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2165774,00.html). Let loose the inevitable torrent of puns: Penis jerky. Penis rinds. Bagel with schmear & cox. Pop Cox. (spotted on Fortean Times; featuring reporting by Dave)
Cower before Ars Technica’s rant on the new “Glossbook.” (guest submission from Dave)
Endor freezes over into Hoth. Okay, that was labored; sorry. (guest submission from Darth Andrea)
Hey – the Emperor (video no longer online: youtube.com/watch?v=VO9zwhersfk) uses the same model phone as C.T.U.! Buh-up bee-oop! And check out all those points of articulation. (guest submission from Dave)
Which sent me on a long, dark journey into the deepest depths of dork:
Western celebrities are attacking Tokyo!. (guest submission from Lost-in-Translation Andrea)
A choice selection of book cover design (no longer online: covers.fwis.com). (guest submission from Andrea)
iTunes is selling the audio of Stephen Colbert’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner (no longer online: phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=152614621&s=143441) speech for $1.99. (the free video seems to have disappeared from YouTube…)
Onanists beware the ceiling cat (no longer online: ceilingcat.com). (guest submission from Master-of-Her-Domain Andrea)
Look, it’s a giant iPod. Almost as much oomph as the MacBook Pro, but with a relatively itty-bitty screen. (guest submission from Dave)