Friday, September 3, 2010
Everybody Wants to Play Batman
Well, duh. Still, this three-minute animated promo for the Batman: Brave and the Bold games is pretty sweet, if only because it exists at all. Seriously, it's like a free, three-minute-long cartoon, albeit one that's doing a bit of shilling. Still, I probably enjoyed it more than half the fan-made videos I was sent last month. And isn't nice to confirm that Batman's "total preparedness for every situation" includes playing videogames? Just in case?
via toplessrobot.comUh - is it messed up that I totally want to play as Bat-Mite? And Green Arrow? And the Brave and the Bold-verse goofy-ass Aquaman?
In any case, this is the funnest promo ever, and Batman: The Brave and the Bold the game - like the show, is totally awesome sauce.
'Fracking' yields fuel, fear in Northeast
Dimock, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Bill Ely walked into his chicken coop with an empty five-gallon water jug.
The jug, punched with several finger-sized holes near the top to keep it from overflowing, was capped with a white plastic pipe. Using a garden hose fed from his water well, he filled the jug.
Leaning over the contraption, he flicked his yellow lighter above the pipe, and a blue flame appeared.
"I knew it [the water] went bad because we could light it," Ely said.
Dimock residents are at the forefront of one of the biggest energy developments this century.
What the 'frack' is 'fracking?'
We've drilled over a million wells in the last 60 years. We think the process is safe.
--Daniel Whitten, American Natural Gas AllianceTheir township sits above the Marcellus Shale, one of the largest natural gas deposits in the nation found underneath parts of Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio. The natural gas reserve is attracting a flurry of gas companies wanting to drill.
Accessing the natural gas involves the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."
Fracturing requires drillers to pump large amounts of water mixed with sand and chemicals into the shale formation under high pressure to depths 8,000 feet or greater or even wells less than 1,000 feet, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This process fractures the shale around the well, which allows the natural gas to flow freely, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Video: Museum Teases Battlestar Galactica Exhibit
To hype Battlestar Galactica: The Exhibition, opening in Seattle on Oct. 23, organizers have rolled out a video featuring prime assets from the show: the spaceships.
Three full-size prop spaceships — a Viper Mark II, a Viper Mark VII and a Cylon Raider — will be featured at the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum along with other props, costumes and concept drawings from both the original Battlestar series and Syfy’s Peabody Award-winning Galactica reboot.
BSG fans eager to attend opening weekend have until Sept. 10 to try their luck at winning two tickets plus hotel and plane fare. Battlestar Galactica: The Exhibition will run through March 4, 2012, then hit the road as a traveling show.
I cannot fracking wait for this to come to NYC!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
True Blood spoilers for the Season 3 finale AND for Season 4
The True Blood season-three finale is going to air next Sunday, Sept. 12, which pretty much means now is the time to start talking about season four. On cue, E! Online has pieced together info on some of the characters who'll be coming back next year, which means not only that they have a head start on spoiling season four, but that they're also spoiling the season-three finale by letting you know who won't be dying.
From what I understand, most of this will be familiar to those who read the books. That said, proceed with caution. Here there be spoilers!
Scott Pilgrim vs. Space!
Image by John Kantz (art assistant on Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
).via Bryan Lee O'Malley, robot6.comicbookresources.com.
19 upcoming superhero movies you need to know about
Ever since Spider-Man came out in 2002 and set all kinds of records for making money, the movie industry has gone crazy for superheros. Eight years on, they just keep on coming. We've had some great ones (Iron Man, The Dark Knight) along with some not-so-good ones (Wolverine, Fantastic Four).
Over the next three years we're going to have the chance to see more than a dozen superhero films, mostly from Marvel and DC, but also a few others. To help keep track of it all we've created this handy guide to the 19 most notable titles that are supposed to come out (some more tentatively than others) through 2013.
Sigh - there'll never be another Condor Man.
Still and all , some of these flicks look like they might be pretty cool.
Paul Cornish’s DC Crossover With Vertigo
So just how are Vertigo characters transmuting to the DC Universe going to be treated? Paul Cornish has a few ideas and shares them exclusively with Bleeding Cool..
iMac Cylon Helmet
Combine it with a Larson scanner kit and you've got yourself a Cylon helmet!
It might just come in handy, given the rumors of a new BSG prequel show in the wake of a possible Caprica cancellation.
Futurama’s Comic Cosmonauts Recall Best Bits From First 100 Episodes
Futurama's milestone 100th episode arrives Thursday night, but the warm, weird remembrances of the show's creative team have come in early.