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and work your way up to page one to see the most remarkable achievement of DC Comics just-completed weekly series,
52. 52 weeks worth of amazing covers by artist
J. G. Jones! A weekly blog for each cover starts
here.
This one was my favorite. 52!
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 11:04 PM on May 3, 2007
(27 comments)
13
haunted houses that will make you wet your pants.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 10:05 PM on October 15, 2006
(9 comments)
Gay Gamers!
A videogame site for the rest of us. Don't miss the
top 20 gayest videogame characters of all time. (Though cross-dressing, hot tubbing-with-all-the-boys Cloud from FF7 should be in there somewhere, I'm thinking).
Possibly NSFW in a pixel-y sort of way.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 10:14 AM on August 28, 2006
(37 comments)
Jor-El speaks.
Cool clip from
Rhythm + Hues studios detailing how they adapted footage of Brando from the original Superman flick for the upcoming Superman Returns.
embedded quicktime, and via AICN
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 10:55 PM on June 19, 2006
(46 comments)
RIP Andreas Katsulas
...and G'Kar, and Commander Tomalak, and the big screen's one-armed man, and ... damn.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 6:52 PM on February 14, 2006
(60 comments)
Having trouble
with that new videogame you got for Christmas?
Text-only walkthroughs don't do it for you? Then try Stuck Gamer. Video walkthroughs for a pretty good number of games. Including, thanks the Lords of Kobol,
Ninja Gaiden.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 10:04 PM on December 26, 2005
(16 comments)
So long, and thanks for all the thrills.
This weekend, Astroworld (I refuse to prepend "Six Flags") will close its doors. Envisioned in 1968 by
Judge Roy Hofheinz (who also brought us Houstonians a
major league baseball team, and a
stadium in which they could play), the amusement park was where I spent a lot of my childhood in the 70s.
Grass roots movements to save the park have
failed, and thus it's time to say goodbye to the place that played host to one of the
best rollercoasters in the world, a ride that
scared the crap out of me, a
double ferris wheel with a twist, as well as the
Boogie Fog Disco, where I learned how to do The Hustle. All's not lost, as at least I can download the
Texas Cyclone, but I still feel a little misty-eyed for the boy who spent most of his weekends in this magical and wondrous place. Farewell.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 8:56 PM on October 24, 2005
(58 comments)
Okay, I admit it. I have a DVD player, and I even have a TV ... that I watch! I didn't find myself buying many DVDs though, until I discovered that I could waste my money buying
TV shows on DVD, finding the ones I like usually through word of (mostly analog, sometimes digital) mouth. When deciding whether or not to Netflix and/or buy
Smallville, I came across
DVD Verdict, and I found the site's conceit--to present each review of a particular DVD as one would present evidence in a trial, then deliver a verdict--to be charming rather than annoying. Chalk it up to generally good and entertaining writing, and very in-depth DVD reviews. Oh, the site's authors like Smallville. But then their motto is "truth, justice, and the digital way"...when it's not "making the jump from heroin to digital smoother since 1999".
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 9:20 PM on September 18, 2005
(16 comments)
Sex & Games
Finally, a place that seems to discuss sexuality in videogames as an adult topic. Brand new forum/blog/branch of the
IGDA, their leadership is a) mostly female, b) commited to "The right of developers to work together to create sexually themed games free of censorship and regulation," and encouraging parental responsibility and c) a nice tonic for
Jack Thompson's hysteria.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 7:01 PM on August 15, 2005
(9 comments)
We're getting married. Aren't you happy for us?
"We would rather sell ourselves to a meat packing plant than acknowledge the union of you and this gold-digging hussy. In fact, we already have." A fun little creative writing site that will let you unleash your inner, bitter socialite.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 8:26 AM on May 29, 2005
(14 comments)
He's been on Star Trek and Deep Space Nine, the only Treks of quality out there. He's really geeky looking, but manages to score bit parts in lots of films. He's Opie's brother. And now he's got his own variety show, something that died when Carol Burnett went off the air (or, maybe
Viva Variety). So three cheers for
The Clint Howard Show!
via Blue's News
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 4:32 AM on April 23, 2005
(35 comments)
She's
dead sleeping, Jim. With UPN's
cancellation of
Star Trek: Enterprise (nee just Enterprise), the Trek
franchise is, for the first time in 18 years, without a weekly broadcast show. While many might agree that Star Trek needs a
rest, others continue to
hope, while producer/right hand of Satan (depending on which
Trekkie you talk to)
Rick Berman says the series (which is a
billion dollar baby for Paramount/Viacom) is going to be off the airwaves for at least three years. Here's to hoping the rest is what's needed for a
phenomenon that's fueled a lot of
geeks for a lot of years.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 2:14 PM on February 3, 2005
(143 comments)
The battle for the NFL
After
EA Games bombshell announcement that it had signed a five-year exclusive licensing deal with the
NFL, many sports games fans are wondering what will happen to their favorite franchises that don't feature
John Madden. You can bet
ESPN is hoppin' mad (and probably Microsoft as well), as are fans of its
NFL 2K series (of which I'm a proud member). Do deals like this hurt the fans or the sport ... or even the gaming industry itself? I certainly think so. Sports is about competition! Oh, no, wait it's about money. Never mind.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 2:52 PM on December 17, 2004
(34 comments)
So the banner ad turned 10 a few days ago,
according to
dabitch, but what I find more fascinating is that its first use was in connection with all those AT&T "
You Will" television commercials from the early '90s. Here, collected on one page, for your consideration, are those ads. As
Frau Farbissina would screech: "Lies.
ALL LIES!" Well, perhaps AT&T didn't lie to us about
all their predictions, but I'm still waiting for my "intelligent assistant" who'll work on those playoff tickets for me. How many predictions did they make that came true can
you find here?
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 5:20 AM on October 31, 2004
(21 comments)
dvdloc8,
the "Internet DVD Database", a cool little work-in-progress thing I found via
doom9.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 12:19 AM on October 28, 2004
(2 comments)
One of the truly indigenous American artforms is
scrimshaw. The
Inuits made some fascinating pieces, as did
whalers more than 200 years ago.
Today's scrimshanders are more sensitive to the materials used (either from extinct species--such as the mastodon!--or synthetic materials), and the artform is still going strong, perhaps even gaining in popularity in these modern times. I find it fascinating, intricate artwork, and history.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 3:01 PM on October 13, 2004
(3 comments)
...
Let's finally give him some respect.
Rodney Dangerfield dead at 82. This has not been a good year for celebrities longevity, has it?
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 6:15 PM on October 5, 2004
(34 comments)
The Tonight Show celebrates its 50th anniversary
of national broadcast, it was a local New York show staring in 1953 tonight.
Steve Allen was its first host, blazing the trail for all late nights to come (did you know his announcer was
Gene Rayburn?). Then came
Jack Parr. The world was a better place with
Johnny Carson making us laugh nearly every night for thirty years.
Jay Leno's rise to host was certainly not easy. And, it seems, on the show's 55th anniversary, it'll be
Conan inheriting the throne!
Happy anniversary to one of the most entertaining, groundbreaking American institutions ever.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 12:17 PM on September 27, 2004
(51 comments)
"So, during the run of
The Judas Contract, Dick
Grayson's new crimefighting identity was established.
Nightwing was born. Though neither
Marv nor I were originally crazy about his new name, in the long run, it seems to have won the fans' hearts. Those who considered themselves
Robin-Rooters have proudly followed Dick's new career as avid
Wingnuts.
--George Perez
Has it really been
20 years since Dick Grayson stopped being a sidekick? Happy belated birthday Nightwing!
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 10:37 PM on September 22, 2004
(11 comments)
Babyface: A Times Square Odyssey
"This interactive web piece about the Babyfaces of Times Square takes place in the past, when the center city was a clash of classes rather than today's funeral of a theme park controlled by middle class undertakers."
This is definitely not safe for work (drugs, porn, men in bathroom stalls), but if you want to remember the seedier side of NYC, this is one way to do it.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 12:56 PM on August 6, 2004
(6 comments)
Fireflies in Houston.
As a kid growing up in Houston, I remember going out into the front yard every evening and seeing hundreds and hundreds of fireflies dancing through the air, one of the most magical memories of childhood. As I grew older, their numbers declined, slowly but surely (in fact, at one point as a kid, I thought I was partially responsible as I'd caught so many of 'em in Flintstones jelly jars). Now back in Houston as an adult, I haven't seen a one, and am wondering,
where have all the fireflies gone? This site aims to tell you, and it's not just for Houstonians.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 6:39 PM on August 3, 2004
(41 comments)
Having just returned to
Paradise for a little visit, I am reminded just how cool this little place is (not that I needed much reminding *whimper*), and am looking for touristy things to do here without a car. While I was on my way up on the
Pacific Surfliner train, a fellow rider told me about
Santa Barbara Car Free. Awesome!
Also props to CalTrans' alliance with Amtrak in California. The trains and service and overall quality of the passenger rail system is quite a bit different from what I've experienced thus far of the stuff handled by Amtrak alone.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 12:02 PM on August 2, 2004
(12 comments)
More kids smoking marijuana than tobacco.
A report by the
CDC reports that more kids now report having smoked pot in the last thirty days than those that reported having smoked a cigarette, and in fact, tobacco usage is showing a steep decline while marijuana usage is showing a steady uptick. This item is just one of many interesting statistics contained within the
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance report, taken between February-December, 2003. The war on some drugs wages on...
(via my friend C-Dawg)
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 10:02 AM on June 23, 2004
(69 comments)
Don't know ADR from THX?
Filmsound.org is for you. Check out their
cliches section, and much more besides.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 6:32 PM on May 12, 2004
(7 comments)
