• US election: the John Kerry/Edwards election machine at last pulls out the big guns with some help from the Clintons. Also, shocking proof of a sense of humour in the wannabe Palpatines.
• Browser democracy: with Firefox and Mozilla, you can vote for the bug you want fixed next. Sign up and make a difference.
• Bad news: for us fans of super-fit birds…
• Computer magazines: not completely dead yet after all. See the DVD-laden Retro Gamer for nostalgia^2.
• Satire: in the entertaining, brilliantly animated kind of way (thanks to JJ).
29-Jul-04 at 5:43 pm | Permalink
I’m enjoying watching John Kerry assemble his Justice League of America. I guess Kerry is Superman, Edwards is Batman, and Clinton is J’onn J’onz, the Martian Manhunter. They now need an Aquaman, a Wonder Woman, a Green Lantern, and maybe a Green Arrow. Howard Dean could surely fill any one of these roles adequately, then they’ll be part of the way towards fighting the earth’s most deadly supervillain, the enigmatic ‘Bush’.
Sorry, I’ll stop now.
I’m still confused as to why Howard Dean’s campaign was de-railed just because he high-fived someone. I would have voted for him precisely for that reason.
03-Aug-04 at 11:26 am | Permalink
What’s Green Lantern all about anyway? I’m sure I saw excerpts in some Alan Moore book where one of the Lanterns (there are an several?) was a planet or something, Unicron-style.
Is the concept any use or is it Silver Surfer-style pish?
04-Aug-04 at 2:20 pm | Permalink
Green Lantern is pish. There are loads of them throughout the universe, policing it, in a ‘Green Lantern Corps’. They have magic rings (ho ho) that can pretty much create whatever their imagination can think of, essentially meaning that they can do whatever the writer needs them to do at any given moment. Which usually means ‘make a big hand that grabs stuff’. Green Lantern used to be vulnerable to wood (‘wood’ is bad for his ‘ring’. Ho ho again) and the colour yellow, but isn’t anymore, I don’t think.
Green Lantern is shit.
A Green Lantern film is in production.
Starring Jack Black.
Take that, fanboys!!!
04-Aug-04 at 3:57 pm | Permalink
It’s tro nuff, though Ain’t It Cool seem to be the only ones with the scoop so far – no blips on IMDB yet.
A “zany” comedy version apparently – the fans will be self-flagellating.
04-Aug-04 at 4:04 pm | Permalink
Green Lantern fans are notoriously over-protective of Green Lantern(translation: they fear change and interesting stories), and started up a stupid internet gang called ‘H.E.A.T’ (no idea what it stands for. Something deliciously witty, no doubt) when the old GL Hal Jordan was killed off and replaced with a new one, Kyle Rayner. They complained lots to DC Comics about it. Idiots. I hope this new film is in production just to annoy them.
I repeat: Green Lantern is shit.