But there’s also the rule that posts shouldn’t exceed a certain length. Just one more rule we don’t care about here at frankylicio.us because it’s our blog and we do what we want here. So here you go… Read more »
Not a lot released this week on the Big Two’s events. Blackest Night – Superman #1, the conclusion of the Dark Reign: Mr Negative mini and the penultimate issue of Dark Reign: The Hood. I have to comment that the first two really didn’t grab me a lot. In Blackest Night – Superman we see the resurrection of various characters, Zor-El as I had hoped for, and a pair that really surprised me, the original Earth-2 Superman Kal-L and his wife Lois. Now there was a couple that I had hoped were truly laid to rest. I wasn’t happy with how they were used in Infinite Crisis, and even less Read more »
When Cloak and Dagger were revealed as members of the (Dark) X-Men, my initial reaction was ‘Huh?’ They are favourite characters of mine, and have been ever since their first appearance all those years ago in the Spider Man titles. In fact, they soon became my main reason for reading the Spider-Man titles, I never had much time for Peter at that age, not that I have a great deal now. (A story has to be highly recommended for me to dig it out of the back issue bins.) However, despite one encounter with four of the New Mutants back in an old Marvel team-Up annual, and maybe the big Read more »
Here’s a great little Flash tool, particularly if you have a fairly distinct name, that will show you interesting tidbits and build a line of categories that you fit in to — according to the Internet. Putting in “John Smith” might not get you a very personalized result, but it’s quite interesting to see what comes up. Read more »
Compacted and rewritten, slightly uncomfortablized, movie plot lines. Movie plot lines in Twitter format. ALIENS: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill BLADE: Obsessed loner stalks minority group CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: Deranged pedophile big-business industrialist tortures and mutilates young children CRANK: Drug addict spends last day in orgy of rape and violence KILL BILL: Irresponsible mother wants custody of her child LORD OF THE RINGS: Midget destroys stolen property SCARFACE: Immigrant finds running his own business stressful, dangerous SE7EN: Homicide detectives unable to prevent even a single murder by admitted serial killer, killer gives cop head THE EXORCIST: Jesus trumps science THE Read more »
Of course, as a true geek you already know Pi to at least 88 decimal places, but what could be better than combining pizza (food staple) and a dish with the hallowed number on it? Enter the Pizza Pi Plate (get it?). Read more »
When you’re worried about losing two small Apple products — namely the 2nd generation iPod Shuffle and the Apple Remote — then this hack is for you. The two devices have a similar shape, so were disassembled and then the iPod’s circuit board was connected up to the Apple Remote’s buttons. Read more »
With the upcoming fifth season of Supernatural soon due, I was attracted to Marvels offering of Ghost Riders: Heavens On Fire, purely on the title. I haven’t been following Ghost Rider these last few years despite being an avid fan in the nineties, and I can tell I need to go diving in the back issue bins. I enjoyed the art, and saw familiar faces like Daimon Hellstrom (is he getting everywhere at the moment?) and Jaine Cutter. Apparently, (and I have missed all of this), the angel Zadkiel has used the combined powers of various Ghost Rider hosts from around the world as collected by Daniel Ketch to conquer Read more »
Here’s a sampling of kick ass wallpapers that will do Osamu Tezuka proud. Of course, they’re in lieu of the Astro Boy CG movie that’s coming in October. The wallpapers are a product of the Tokyo Denki University. Download Astro Boy wallpapers from the lower right thumbnails. You have an awesome eight to choose from. Read more »
This is an absolute must-see patent from Sony. Not only is the concept great but the drawing is absolutely priceless. First, the concept: Sony thinks it can improve your game playing experience if it knows when you smile or laugh at something on screen. It will do this by tracking bodily gestures and sounds via a camera and microphone connected up to a PlayStation 3, and may well handle other emotions as well. These could be used as controllers for a game, or possibly extended to give some “Big Brother” feedback if you’re watching a film or TV programme. Read more »
