I don’t do a lot of just promoting other sites around here, but I wanted to let everyone know about my favorite podcast’s official site launch. The Totally Rad Show has turned out to be the best podcast on the web, as far as I’m concerned. Each week I find myself switch over to my AppleTV to let these guys into my living room to let me know about all the Rad stuff that’ happening in Movies, Television, Video Games, and Comics.

Today they launched an awesome looking official site – and as a bonus (for me anyway), they even linked to our sister blog, Apple Gazette – where you can download the iPhone Ringtone of their theme song.

I’m a huge fan of this podcast, and I think all of you should go check out the site, and watch the show.

I missed this when it first hit the web, so for those of you, like me, that didn’t get to see it – BEHOLD – the Decepticons from the new Transformers Animated series.

This image comes to us via Toys R Evil’s Guide to the Series, which has enough content on it for me to post all day about. Check it out for prototype toy designs, a closer look at all of the Decepticons, including Megatron…previews of Toys – basically everything in the world that’s available about the series thus far.

I was the first one to spew hatred about the look of this show based on the first image – but the more I see it, the more I can’t wait for this thing.

CBR has a look at some plans for promoting the new Spectacular Spider-Man animated series that is coming to Kid’s WB in 2008. The series is already being promoed on the network, and it looks like it may be the best animated version of the wallcrawler yet.

The plans for marketing the show are as follows:

* Starting in early 2008, Sony Pictures Television and Kids’ WB!/The CW Network will launch an in-school Milk Media Campaign in 85% of all U.S. schools. The campaign will include localized tune-in information that will be featured on The Spectacular Spider-Man branded posters and book covers in the top 8-10 markets, as well as branding on nearly 40 million milk cartons.

* Kids’ WB! hosted The Spectacular Spider-Man sweepstakes, giving away 100 not-yet-released Activision “Friend or Foe” video games every hour on Sept. 22. The “Friend or Foe” games will not be available at retail until October.

* A Kids’ WB! on-air teaser campaign for the series has begun to run regularly until the series premieres in early 2008.

* An extensive “kid focused” online campaign – featuring The Spectacular Spider-Man – will be accessible at www.kidswb.com.

* A trailer for the series is featured on Sony Home Entertainment’s Spider-Man 3 DVD available at Wal-Mart beginning October 30.

With Spider-Man 3 being such an amazing disappointment, it’s nice to be excited about something Spider-Man related again – and this animated series looks like it will be awesome.

Trailer after the jump.

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Dell’s XPS M1730 has made a sneaky introduction onto their official site – and this machine is an absolute monster.

Here are the specs:

* 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor (800MHz FSB and 4MB cache)
* 2GB 667MHz DDR2 memory (4GB for an additional $375)
* 2 x 200GB 7200RPM disks
* DVD burner (upgradeable for Blu-ray playback for an additional $550)
* 512MB Dual (!) nVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT with nVIDIA SLI Te
* 802.11a/g/n WiFi
* 9-cell primary and 9-cell secondary batteries

You can also add an AT&T HSDPA 3.6 or Sprint / Verizon EVDO rev. A card for an additional $163 and $129. Thanks to Engadget we can see read the Dell pages for all three configurations of this beast of a machine.

$2,999 configuration
$3,599 configuration
$4,192 configuration

Keep in mind that since none of this has been officially announced by Dell just yet – it’s entirely possible that these prices could change.

20 years – that’s the age difference between the IBM hard drive on the left, and the SD Card on the right. Both feature a maximum storage capacity of 1 Gb.

It’s amazing the difference 20 years of advancement can make, isn’t it?

via CrunchGear

According to Variety, Jessica Biel is going to stepping into the gold tiara to play Wonder Woman in the upcoming Superhero team-up movie. Warners won’t officially comment, but we’ll know the truth soon enough, because, due to the possible actor’s strike, production on the film is moving up to February.

I like Jessica Biel, and she might be a good choice for the role – I’m not sure, we’ll have to see…but I hate to see the film pushed forward because of this strike situation. I really hope they don’t have to rush the film so much we end up with an X-Men 3 on our hands. That would not only be a shame, it would be a waste of the entire franchise.

I have to say, I’m excited about the Wii Zapper. It looks pretty cool, and I’ve always been a sucker for gun perpetuals. This one even comes with a new mini-game training disk – Link Crossbow Training – that includes three games: Target Shooting, a shooting gallery adventure, Defender, where you remain stationary and are subject to onslaught from the horrible orks and other assorted baddies and the final game, called Ranger, which will allow you to wander about and just go nuts.

I haven’t been big on many of the Wii styled add-ons, like the Tennis Rackets, or the wheels, but I am looking forward to trying this one out soon.

via Gizmodo

Some of you are going to be cynicle about this, and that’s fine – but I’m excited about this idea. The One Laptop Per Child program is a great way, I think, to spread technology to developing countries. I hope, sincerely, that these people already have other necessities before they get computers, but I think spreading computer knowledge across the world is a great idea.

The OLPC program will cost you $399 for your laptop. You’ll get one, and a child in another country will get one as well. It’s a great way to not only get a cool, cheap, laptop, but also help a child who would never have the opportunity to get a computer at all, get a nice, inexpensive machine, to learn about the world that computing can open up.

but, yeah – they’ll probably play video games and watch porn with it. Ah well…

via. Engadget.

This very strange looking custom vinyl Darth Vader figure looks…um…odd to me. The face is actually a skull and crossbones, even though it looks like some kind of horrible, cancerous growth. This vinyl figure is going to be ultra-rare, limited to only 500 pieces, and will only be sold in Japan.

On top of that, you’ll have to be over 15, a have a valid ID, and a ticket to enter the store where it goes on sale – and none of that guarantees you anything but entrance into the store. It will still be a fight to get the toy apparently.

I think the thing I like best about this story is that it’s the firs time I’ve been to the source blog, Toys R Evil – this looks like a great blog – one that I will probably be linking to a lot in the future. Check it out here.

The geek related movie news has been slowing down over the last few weeks, but there is something geek-movie related to talk about: Superman: Doomsday.

It seems, at first, like a sure fire winner. It’s the Death of Superman Story. It’s so violent in had to be rated PG-13, and it’s co-directed by Bruce Timm. What could go wrong?

Well…um…just about every single thing you could think of, and a few things that would have never crossed your mind. The movie is just plain terrible on almost every imaginable level.

If you want a spoiler-free review, you just got it.

From here on out….thar be spoilers ahead!

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I tried to Etch-A-Sketch when I was a kid. The thing looked amazing, but I could never get much past a city landscape or some other all square related thing. I have no idea how to wrap my head around the Etch-A-Sketch and produce anything of artistic merit. The person that created this, however – I am in awe…and this is only one of dozens, if not hundreds, of other Etch-A-Sketch art pieces available at his site.

Gateway is taking a page from the Apple playbook, and is holding a special event scheduled for 9AM EDT on September 27th. the teaser ad posted above has a very Apple-like feel to it, and the computer is being billed as an asthetically pleasing All-in-One computer.

Sounds like Gateway’s answer to the iMac to me.

Not that that’s a bad thing. I hope this computer is beautiful, powerful, and inexpensive, because I think PC makers should spend a little more time on the design of their machines. We’ve certainly seen a turn toward that in recent years, but I still thing most PC makers fall behind Apple in design – and it would be nice to see them up their game…maybe Gateway is going to do just that.

We’ll see next week, won’t we?

via Engadget

So what would happen if a boy band released a song about Halo? This…

Aiptek A-HD is officially the cheapest HD camcorder out there, at $169.99. The first red flag I see is the 2.4-inch 4×3 LCD viewscreen – when the camera shoots in 1280×720 16×9. Seems like that doesn’t make much sense. I haven’t tried this camera, or its big brother, but Gizmodo seems to thing this is the crappiest camera in the history of time.

If you’ve played with an Aiptek, I’d love to know what you think about it. I’d like to have a small pocket camera that could shoot HD, but I have to wonder if it can do it with any level of quality at this price.

More info at Aiptek

There has been a 15 month deliberation into Microsoft’s appeal to the European ruling in their anti-trust case. Today, that deliberation is over, and it’s bad news for Microsoft. Gates and Co will have to pay the $688 million fine imposed in 2004 stands and they must also pay 80% of the Commission’s legal costs as well.

The only thing Microsoft did manage to get done, was the elimination of the independent monitoring trustee established to monitor Microsoft’s behavior.

This is far from over, however, because Microsoft can still appeal to the highest court in Europe – and it’s almost a guarantee that they will do just that.

via BBC

Are you lonely? Do you like being on the Internet because of your tatoos? Well…this guy does. He’s been on Engadget twice previously because of his Zune logo tattoos, and now he’s done it again. This man is either the biggest Zune fan in history, or a guy so desperate for attention that he’s willing to permanently scar his body to get on a tech news blog.

I’m not sure which, but man, I really, REALLY hope he loves the Zune…because if not, he’s going to be regretting those tattoos when he’s in his 70s and no one even remembers that second rate DAP.