Cool Tee: Extermi…. er, no…. Intoxicate!

This robotic destruction machine decided that getting sloshed would be preferable to his usual battle cry of extermination.

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CW’s Beauty and the Beast reboot: How bad can it be?

File away under possible future geeky TV: The CW is rebooting Beauty and the Beast.

I’m talking the original TV show, the Linda Hamilton classic that touted an obsessive fan following in the eighties. Here’s their pitch: the CW version “will not only modernize and CW-up the love story but also add a procedural twist.” Vampire Diaries meets Law & Order?  Though of course after seeing last night’s premiere of The Secret Circle I can’t help but fear that they’ll just set it in high school instead.

And even though I have a soft spot for the CW – hey, I’m a huge fan of Supernatural – here is what I’m picturing for this reboot:

After her parents’ divorce, Cathy Chandler moves to New York City to live with her father and attend an exclusive private school. Immediately teased by a group of mean girls because even though she’s beautiful, she likes to read books, Cathy’s lack of fitting in takes an even more dangerous turn when she is run down by some football players drunk driving. Left on the side of the road, Cathy is near death when she’s discovered by Vinnie, a hairy-yet-hot boy who takes her to a secret underground high school full of teenage outcasts who can’t fit into society. When she returns to the surface, she finds herself wanting to make a real difference in her school and make it safe for people like Vinnie, so she decides to run for class president and makes an enemy of the head cheerleader… whose boyfriend seems to have eyes for Cathy as well, and she finds herself having to choose between him and the enigmatic Vinnie whom she can now only communicate with via Facebook.

Starring Miley Cyrus as Cathy and Ed Westwick as Vinnie.

And somewhere there was the sound of a million B&B fangirls waking from stasis and shouting, “NOOOOOOOOOO.”



What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?

Hmmm, someone take that video and add some John Williams on top, please.

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica.

[Via Neatorama]

Richard Dawkins: The Magic of Reality

Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous evolutionary biologist and one of science education’s most passionate advocates, has spent his career elucidating the wonders of science for adult readers. But now, in a dramatic departure, he has teamed up with acclaimed artist Dave McKean and used his unrivaled explanatory powers to share the magic of science with readers of all ages. This is a treasure trove for anyone who has ever wondered how the world works. Dawkins and McKean have created an illustrated guide to the secrets of our world—and the universe beyond—that will entertain and inform for years to come.

Now this is the kind of bedside book I like to read to my children before they go to sleep. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com and will start shipping early next month.

[The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True – Richard Dawkins]

Facebook and Twitter Team Up

Facebook was quick to respond to the flight of people over to Google+ when it launched, with a new feature that easily targets what groups can see your status updates. Now the social media giant has teamed up with Twitter in a move to block out Google’s attempt at getting a foothold in the market.

It’s not a super new feature, as people with “fan pages” have been able to link their Facebook and Twitter accounts in the past.  But they are making steps to link your two accounts together. It’s all part of Facebook’s new Subscriber function.

The new feature will launch sometime this month.  There seems to be some confusion on news sites if this will strictly be for people with Public Pages, or if the regular Facebook user can link their personal account to Twitter as well.  According to documentation from Facebook, you will be able to link a “profile or Page” to your Twitter!

You can check out all the new things Facebook plans to roll out in their Public Figure Subscriptions here: https://developers.facebook.com/attachment/Subscriptions_PublicFigures_final.pdf/

Feature: Montreal Comic-Con 2011 in Pictures [Gallery]

As previously mentioned, I was at Comic Con Montreal 2011 last weekend to shoot pictures of costumed people, and while the event wasn’t exactly perfect (I had to wait in line for almost 2 hours to get in, even though I had purchased my ticket online a few days before,) It was still pretty darn fun. You can check out all the pictures I took at the event in the picture gallery below!

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Special thanks go to the awesome, amazing, kind, (etc…) people from 501st Quebec for their awesome costumes all the time they spent posing with / for visitors (and especially with children.) I think from all the cosplayers I’ve seen at the con, these guys were among the nicest of the bunch.