Engadget is reporting via the Hollywood Reporter that Tobey Maguire is going to produce and perhaps star in a live action adaptation of the popular animation series, Robotech.
Yay?
Author - Jerry Paxton
Slashdot is reporting that an Indian software firm is outsourcing jobs to the US in a strange role reversal!
Gizmodo is reporting that the Airbus 380 has a window in it’s bathroom as well as designer lid!
Airplane bathrooms make me nervous. I am always worried we will hit an air pocket while I am doing my business. Thats why I recommend doing your business at the terminal prior to flight!
Joystiq has an article up on the Far Cry 2 public demo at the Leipzig gaming conference (one of the big ‘uns now that E3 is gone). Far Cry 2 retains the original game’s open design with a 50 sq. km world where you can go anywhere and do anything at anytime you choose.
MSNBC reports that Comcast has begun cutting off customer’s internet access for exceeding bandwidth limits. Comcast reasons that excessive downloaders hog Internet capacity and slow down the network for other customers.
Comcast refuses to reveal the actual limits before a disconnect occurs, nor how many people have been affected by the cut-off policy.
Other Internet service providers, including Time Warner Cable, Verizon and AT&T, say they reserve the right to manage their networks, but have not yet suspended service to subscribers.
TheMovieBlog is reporting that the new Street Fighter movie has a director. Did we really need another Street Fighter movie? Did you come running out of the theatre as a kid going, ‘Hell yes that movie was rad!’? No. No one did.
Wikipedia has a great article on Pepper’s Ghost, an illusion which is used in Knott’s Berry Farm’s Mystery Lodge attraction.
Apple has posted an open letter from Steve Jobs to all iPhone owners, many of whom have become upset at Apple’s dropping the iPhone price by two hundred dollars only two months after launch.
Yay the Cult of Steve….
Technews has a VERY clever advertisement for tampons. While not exactly geek news, it did make me laugh so I thought I would share it anyway.
Youtube has a startling video revealing the next threat in the War on Terror…Zombies!!!! Run before they make you into man sushi…or…mushi!