That’s right – it’s that time again – time to reflect on the week’s happenings in glorious geekdom. Let’s jump right in.
WIN: Zombie fans
Last week I featured digital zombies, but this week I have to give a shout out to fellow zombie fans as we quiver and light up cigarettes in the afterglow of Resident Evil 3D – but more to the point, The Walking Dead panel at the New York Comic Con. The panel was so jam packed it took a good 45+ minutes to seat the attendees, and the reception everyone involved with the television show received proved just how much people adore a good zombie yarn.
WIN: UFOs
A massive UFO sighting (explained by the government as…all together now…weather balloons) over Manhattan sparked both buzz and terror midweek. What makes it a win is the fact that it was purportedly predicted by a former NORAD officer that fleets of UFOs would hover over major cities on October 13th. So it’s got that insanity factor that we all love. Cue the hideous music from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
FAIL: MySpace
Specifically, the new MySpace logo. What was undoubtedly intended to be a clever, if not borderline geeky visual just looks like someone forgot to finish the editing process. The end result is something completely unintuitive and nowhere near enough to pull MySpace out of its tailspin.
FAIL: The Social Network
Those in the know are tearing apart this movie for its reportedly immature and incomplete portrayal of the crew behind social networking giant Facebook. Despite the fact that it’s been hyped to death and has spent a significant amount of time trending hither and yon, it fails at the task of interesting me even in the smallest measure, no matter how long it stays in the box office.
WIN: Twins
Or to be exact, astronaut twins. Scott Kelly, currently commanding the International Space Station, will soon be joined by his twin brother Mark Kelly, who’s set to command the final space shuttle mission, in the ISS. Bonus geek points for the precious cargo Mark will be delivering: an instrument called the “Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer”. Not even Reed Richards could invent something that sounds so cool.
