Links This Week (9/30/08)

What?  Whoever said it had to be a weekly feature?
Iron Man Deleted & Extended Scenes: With the second-best movie of the summer on DVD today, it’s only fitting to spotlight some of the extras we’ll be seeing.  Watch ‘em before getting the DVD!
Rorschach Pickets FOX: With all the lawsuit craziness, Watchmen’s best-recognized costumed [...]

Halo Mythbusters (and some other stuff)

I love Mythbusters.  It’s one of my favorite shows on the Discovery Channel — equal parts informative and entertaining, if not always scientifically accurate.
Taking that brilliant concept into the world of Halo and Xbox Live is this video testing various widespread claims about what is (or isn’t) possible in Master Chief’s domain.  Even if you’re [...]

Oregon Trail: 2008

Ahh, Oregon Trail.  A classic.  What child growing up in the ’80’s or early ’90’s doesn’t remember hitching up the wagon (figuratively speaking) and taking the family out west, hunting food to survive and braving the dangers of weather, broken axels, starving oxen, and maladies like measles, broken bones, and dysentery in the name of [...]

Jack’s Back (But Do We Care?)

Proving the validity of Ecclesiastes in that there really, truly is nothing new under the sun, no matter how much you try to reinvent it, rearrange the elements, or make it fresh…here’s the trailer for Fox’s 24 tv movie.
Returning November 23rd, Jack appears to have relocated to Africa since season six for some missionary-style social [...]

Transformers 2: Is This Megatron?

If you’re an ’80’s junkie who, like me, enjoyed Transformers last summer, you watched Megatron “die” at the end of the movie and knew, just knew that that wasn’t really the end.  I mean, it never is.
As I’ve mentioned before (here and here), Transformers 2 is in production, and (saddled with the subtitle Revenge of [...]

Top 5 Most Annoying Children’s Songs

No, I’m not actually linking to anything today.  This is original content!
My wife and I were joking around this morning and started singing goofy songs from when we were kids.  Not for a very extended period of time, mind you, because we quickly realized that many of these songs are actually quite irritating.
I started thinking [...]

Links This Week (9/11/08)

This week’s aggregation of fun or interesting links to items too miniscule to warrant their own post, but still relevant enough to mention!
Read Neverwhere for Free: For Neil Gaiman fans, or those curious, Harper Collins has made available Neverwhere as a free online read or free e-book download. Limited time only.
“24″ Stopping Production: Just for [...]

Two Reviews of Watchmen (Plus, a Bonus)

No, not reviews of the movie.  Sorry.
My friend Kim over at Bold.Blue.Adventure has taken it upon herself to read Watchmen and she has posted her review.  I think this will be of interest to a lot of people because her review is from the perspective of someone who has, like so many people in America, [...]

Fun Links This Week

Not everything is worth a full write-up and commentary, so here’s some interesting quick hits I ran across this week.
“Peanuts” animator dies: Bill Melendez, official animator for all the Peanuts classics, is dead at 91.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The cartoon that the new movie exists to promote starts its run on the Cartoon Network [...]

R.I.P. Don LaFontaine

If you haven’t heard already, movie trailers and promos on Fox will be a lot less thrilling and dramatic-sounding from now on.  
Don LaFontaine, “the movie trailer guy,” was originally from Duluth, MN, but made his way out to L.A. and has since been the voice for over 5,000 movie trailers and 350,000 television commercials. [...]