iLife
Piecing together the obituaries and eulogies of Steve Jobs makes it clear that his impact wasn’t just reality distortion
Something Rotten
Orson Scott Card finally explains what Hamlet’s real problem was all along, but we’re still no closer to finding out why Card is such an asshole.
Choices
Getting all worked up thinking about years wasted arguing over the wrong thing.
They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore
Captain America: The First Avenger is another case of Marvel making franchise movies better than they need to be.
Uncanny Valley of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is eerily like a real movie
L-i-t-t-l-e M-o-n-e-y
Final Fantasy Tactics and the bizarro psychology of Apple App Store pricing
Beyond the Abilities of Normal Humans
Another gripe about the dumbing down of the media
Autobots! Roll (your eyes) out!
The Transformers movies are the after-effects of the 1990s disguised as nostalgia for the 1980s.
Forty
I’m going to need another 30 or 40 years to figure this shit out.
Spielberg & Abrams At The Movies
Super 8 is a movie about making and watching movies, and it’s best not to know any more than that.
A Throne for Games
A report back from Chuck’s First KublaCon
Ms. Verisimilitude for Her
Thoughts after watching Bridesmaids and what I’m hoping is witnessing the slow heat death of Hollywood.