Nerdcore News

Post Pet is an e-mail program that has cutesy animal avatars deliver and handle your mail. If your friends are using Post Pet, you can watch as their pets deliver the mail to yours. What an adorable idea.

John Favreau has announced that Iron Man's movie villain will be The Mandarin, which is pretty obvious, because he's a classic nemesis, and he has a real world connection. He's not some crazy space alien or anything too hard for mainstream audiences to swallow.

Additionally, we have a sneak peak of the teaser poster that was shown at the convention. Designed by Iron Man artist Adi Granov—a major player in the production design of this film—this poster gives a glimpse as to what Stark could look like when he eventually dons the red and gold suit in May of 2008.

Microsoft bracing for imminent network worm attack.

Dave Aitel, a researcher at Immunity, said his exploits are capable of launching attacks against firewall-protected Windows XP SP2. "A worm is coming. This bug is just too easy to exploit," Aitel said in an interview with eWEEK.

I also want to point out that the Department of Homeland Security (sorry, no link) has issued a statement asking all Windows users to patch, which is both unprecedented and sort of strange. Do we really need a government agency telling us to patch our computers? We shouldn't.

(but of course, the "we" that is reading this probably doesn't need that advice.)

I <3 Stephen Colbert.



So, apparently the Wikipedia page on elephants has been decimated by a horde of nerds encouraged by the August 1st The Word segment on The Colbert Report.

It's a bit late to catch all of the edits in action, but the Talk Page ist still full of furious people and plenty of internet drama.

Seriously, <3

The ultimate "garage sale" find. After eating last night, we stumbled around the DIY pottery-painting store and Emily found this one, cold, alone, abandoned and only a buck.

It was decided that one of us must own this immediately, and Emily got first dibs.

This one's from Punk News; you just gotta read it. It's rediculous.

The comments pretty much say it all.

Intel, the chip manufacturer, has enlisted the help of Boom! Studios, a comic book publisher, to help with their latest advertising effort for the newly-unveiled Viiv processor. The comic, called Sherree's Secret will feature 20 pages of plot based around the home entertainment system, as well as full page ads from sponsors like Napster, who will tell consumers just why Viiv is so great to use.

Said Boom! publisher, Ross Richie:

We’re reeling! We just received the “Best New Publisher” award from Wizard magazine and got an incredibly favorable write-up in the 1-10-06 “Class of 2005” article in Publisher’s Weekly, and now we’ve been able to work with the world’s largest computer chip maker.

Yes...that makes perfect sense.

According to AP Magazine # 213:

It's been rumored for close to two years, and it finally exists: Former Catch 22 frontman Tomas Kalnoky has rerecoreded the 1998 classic-and ska/punk landmark - Keasbey Nights with his new band Streetlight Manifesto. "Making the record was not unlike shitting out peach pits," Kalnoky shares with AP. So, why go through the process, you ask? "We wanted to get it right for once," he says. You'll find all 14 tracks from the original C22 release here, with tighter musicianship and superior production.

First of all, I liked the production of the original C22 release, perhaps better than the first Streetlight release. Secondly, AP magazine is a pretty bad judge of what is good, "tigther," or "superior."
Finally, I'm still very excited to hear this album.

The Life Pursuit, the latest album from Belle & Sebastian is providing new ammo for comics, as it, along with their previous discography, is the inspriation for a new anthology by Image Comics:

Now, the band's colorful lyrics and gorgeous, full-bodied melodies have provided Image Comics with the inspiration for a new kind of comics anthology. With the full-color, 144-page Put the Book Back on the Shelf, a stellar collection of independent comic creators and cartoonists put their own spins on a cross section of Belle and Sebastian's songs, crafting stories inspired by the band's music, drawn from the band's entire catalog.

In a forthcoming graphic novel, Batman is off to the middle east to punch out Osama bin Laden*. The story will be written by (here's a surprise) Frank Miller.

“Not to put too fine a point on it, it's a piece of propaganda,” he said.

“Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

“These are our folk heroes. I just think it's silly to have Batman out chasing the Riddler when you've got al-Qaida out there.”

It is my opinion that it's about time someone punched out Osama. Considering comics were such a big influence in the WWII era, I'm disappointed at the publishers' soft stance on the issue.

(Though, this was tried before, in a book called American Power by CrossGen. But it was pulled because of reader outcry. I'm not entirely sure why, but I believe it had something to do with intolerance.)

*Apologies for linking to an article about Batman with the pandering headline “Holy comic book!” and the inane opening line “Holy terror, Batman!”

Edit: I just found out that the comic is actually going to be called Holy Terror, Batman! Frank, you disappoint me.