Monthly Archives: August 2010

Locke & Key!

by Darren Burr
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Locke & Key!

It looks like promo issues work after all. I mean how could I miss anything with the word Lovecraft in the title? I had been receiving encouragement recently from a friend to read Joe Hill. Joe Hill if you didn’t know, is the son of the master Stephen King, choosing this pseudonym to honour the previous civil rights leader, whom as Joseph Hillstrom King he had been named after, and forge his own path rather than exist under his fathers shadow or gain fame as simply Stephen King’s son. Here, Lovecraft is simply the name of the town that the Locke & Key tale occurs in. A nice little town, Read more »

Steven Spielberg Picks Up Locke & Key For New TV Series

by James Johnson
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Steven Spielberg Picks Up Locke & Key For New TV Series

Steven Spielberg and his partners Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are bringing the Joe Hill written and Gabriel Rodriguez illustrated comic Locke & Key to TV with Josh Friedman of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles‘ helming the project. According to New York Magazine the comic is set to be made into a “major TV franchise.” Originally Kurtzman and Orci wanted to turn the comic into a full-length movie, but were happy to move forward with a TV show when Friedman came on-board. If you’re unfamiliar with Locke & Key it features three kids who watch over an old mansion that’s full of various adventures that can be found through portals.  Read more »

GeekFight: When Geeks Get Together

by Noemi Twigg
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GeekFight: When Geeks Get Together

Monday night proved to be a novel – and interesting – experience for me. I had been hearing about GeekFight! Trivia Night here in Manila for some time now, but I hadn’t really had the time to go to a single event till this week. GeekFight! Trivia Night is all about a group of people with their own personal “obsessions” getting together and slugging it out – using their mental muscles of course. The series of events was founded by Paolo Cruz, who also serves as the quiz master. Read more »

An Open Letter to Lord of the Rings Fans Everywhere

by Dina Ely
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An Open Letter to Lord of the Rings Fans Everywhere

Dear Everyone Eagerly Anticipating the Release of The Hobbit, I am writing to you today with a message of hope – a shining light in the perpetual dusk, burning brighter than Eärendil – in these, our darkest hours. I too remember where I was that terrible day when Peter Jackson announced that due to his battles with New Line, he would not be directing The Hobbit. I was unpacking groceries, and when the news broke, I put down my cans of Progresso soup and wept openly over my box of Saltines. Since that day New Line and PJ have reconciled their differences, MGM has come out to play, and The Read more »

Meet The Decepti-Cobra Obliterator. This Is What Happens When Transformers Fans Are Bored

by James Johnson
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Meet The Decepti-Cobra Obliterator. This Is What Happens When Transformers Fans Are Bored

The picture above of the Decepti-Cobra Obliterator may look like the ultimate in Hasbro Transformers technology, but sadly this monstrosity of awesomeness was not thought up by the toy team at Hasbro or by the cartoons creators, but rather Transformers fan Jean-Paul Lesperance, who goes by the name Dr. Vile. The giant Transformers toy features a slew of robots including two Cobra ATVs, a Cobra jeep, twi HISSes and Scorponok from the Transformers movie. Read more »

The Daily Routine of a Web Geek

by Darice de Cuba
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The Daily Routine of a Web Geek

While browsing the web and going through all my daily sites I come across a comic depicting exactly what I’m doing. As a matter of fact what I do everyday: check email, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, feeds, statistics, news and all that over and over again between work. I’m sure everyone who needs internet to do their job or even those who don’t spend at least an hour or two a day mindless clicking through all sites like mentioned above and more. This comic aptly named “Jus’ Checkin’” is something we can all identify with. Read more »

CopyTrans: Music from iPod to Computer in a Flash

by Noemi Twigg
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CopyTrans: Music from iPod to Computer in a Flash

Does this scenario seem familiar?  Your beloved music collection is in your iPod and your computer.  For some reason, your iTunes library is incomplete, corrupted, or empty.  Or maybe you reformatted your hard drive and lost all the data.  Whatever the reason, you want – you need – to transfer your iPod files to your computer. Now anyone who has tried to do this would know that it is not the simple matter that it is when transferring files from the computer to the iPod.  Due to all sorts of copyright issues, transferring music from the iPod has not been made easy. Read more »

New Mathematical Theorem Created For Futurama Episode

by James Johnson
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New Mathematical Theorem Created For Futurama Episode

If you happened to catch the recent Futurama episode in which various characters from the show switched brains, you may remember that the biggest concern was whether or not each character could switch back to their own body, in order to do so they would have to have enough people to switch brains with, without swapping into a body they had already occupied. So how do you go about figuring out how many people it would take so the same swap was never made twice? You create a mathematical theorem of course and that’s exactly what Futurama writer and mathematician Dr. Ken Keeler did. Not only did he create the Read more »

Meet the LEGO Architect

by Robin Parrish
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Meet the LEGO Architect

Everybody knows “brick artist” Nathan Sawaya, and his amazing, life-sized LEGO art. And you may have heard of Sean Kenney, who builds incredible, giant-sized reproductions of objects, animals, and buildings out of LEGO Bricks. Now we can add to their ranks Adam Reed Tucker, a former architect who today teaches people about the engineering and design that goes into constructing modern skyscrapers by reproducing some of the world’s most famous buildings in a medium that everyone can understand: LEGO. Click through for more photos of his amazing work, as well as the special product line he’s developed. Read more »