Comic-Con poster gallery

First Showing has a gallery of all the posters featured at Comic-Con. Here are a few of my favorite ones:

Sweeney Todd (dir. Tim Burton) – It’s no secret to my friends that I’m a huge fan of both Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. I’ve loved pretty much everything they’ve done together (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory was somewhat sub-par), and this looks like it will probably crack the top three list of best Burton-Depp collaborations. This is one bad-ass poster.

Watchmen (dir. Zack Snyder) – This poster just screams, “We’re going to do the graphic novel justice.” Yeah, I know that’s a pretty lame thing to go around screaming, and your friends would probably laugh at you if you yelled that in public, but this poster can do whatever it wants.

Cloverfield/1-18-08 (dir. Matt Reeves) – The marketing team for this film is working hard to create a sense of mystery around this film, and they’re succeeding. Not much is known about this upcoming monster flick from producer J.J. Abrams (“Lost”), but from the teaser trailer and this poster, it’s sure to be a great ride.

[via Film School Rejects]

Xbox 360-related announcement on August 8th?

With all the rumors flying around the intarwebs about a possible Xbox 360 price drop, this just adds fuel to the fire. The crew at Achievement Junkie got ahold of this email sent out to GameStop managers and employees. I especially like the mix of “please” and then “DO NOT” all authoritative-like. It’s a good that they asked nicely.

So… imminent price drop, or something bigger?

Chat live with Roger Ebert tonight at 8pm EST

Tonight, Roger Ebert will be hosting a live chat on the new At The Movies archive site. Ebert will be hosting this to launch the new archive to the world. If I get a chance, I’ll definitely be joining in to try and get a chance to pick his mind, and you should too.

[via TV Squad]

Infamous Steve Ballmer video remixed into an iPod-style Zune ad

From the eternally-hilarious Fake Steve Jobs comes a link to this video, which features the infamous Steve Ballmer freakout video turned into a Zune ad in the style of the iPod ads. Even though the original Steve Ballmer video is close to being overplayed, this still had me laughing.

Kevin Smith pwns heckler at Comic-Con

I told myself I wouldn’t use the word “pwn” when I started this, but there really is no other word that better describes Kevin Smith’s response to someone heckling him at Comic-Con. I won’t post his response, since it is NSFW, but go ahead and watch to see how Smith responds to, “Do you ever plan on making an original movie without rehashing your old characters that doesn’t suck?” And no, he doesn’t attack the run-on nature of the sentence, though there is something in there about the heckler’s mom. Now once again, Not Safe For Work.

[Via Forever Geek]

“The Items We Carry” – Flickr pool

(photo by Vince Brown)

How does this qualify as nerdy? Well, just take a look and see all the tech gadget people are carrying! The theme of the pool is pictures of the items that you carry with you every day, and some of the pictures remind me of high school when I carried all my worldly possessions in the various pockets of my cargo pants.

[via Neatorama]

From the belly of the beast: ‘Lair’ delayed

This is straight from Sony over at their Playstation Blog, so it’s the real deal. Ryan Hamlyn, Associate Producer SCEA, stated:

“Due to an extra step in QA testing to enhance the community features in the game, the release of LAIR, originally set for August 14th, has changed to September 4, 2007. Natural challenges that arose while finalizing the offline game to include key online features – such as leaderboards and medal systems – have led to the difficult choice of pushing back the release date. We appreciate everyone’s excitement and patience for the game and look forward to its release on September 4.”

Siskel & Ebert, Ebert & Roeper free official archive

Roger Ebert just announced that, starting August 2, an archive of over 5,000 movie reviews and clips (including clips from movies) from the Siskel & Ebert and Ebert & Roeper will be available online in a searchable database for free. This is a fantastic move, especially if sites like Netflix or Blockbuster can link specific reviews to their movie. Hmm… do I want to rent “Diner”? Let’s see what Siskel and Ebert thought of it. I know come tomorrow I’ll be spending some quality time watching old reviews of movies I love and hate to see what they had to say about them.

Rumor: Apple to announce Tablet next week

Jeremy over at Live Digitally has laid out his rationale for the possibility of an Apple Tablet debut next week at their press conference. He thinks “it’ll be a 12.1″ display and be the width of the iPhone, have no keyboard at all, USB, FireWire, BlueTooth, WiFi and possibly built-in AT&T Edge access.” Now by width I’m guessing he means the thickness of the iPhone, which would be pretty great if they could achieve that. Now this is all wild speculation right now, but Apple usually has something juicy when they schedule these random press conferences. Keep your eyes and ears open next week for an update.

[via jkOnTheRun]

Using OneNote to read archive academic journals

While this how-to article is geared towards archiving academic journals for later review, this method can really be used for any online article reading. In this article, Jeff over at Missionary Geek explains how to take articles and put them into OneNote in a well-organized manner for annotation and archiving purposes. I think I might use this for those long Mac vs. PC rants I find on the Internet that I just can’t finish in one sitting.

[via GottaBeMobile]