M. Night Shyamalan finally made a comedy

Oh, the pain. Recently, at an Asian fusion restaurant, I was offered a thing called an Asiadilla. This was a quesadilla with roast duck and hoisin sauce inside it. Just let that idea sink into your mind and permeate your tastebuds — in essence, it’s Beijing Duck crossed with Tex-Mex. With extra cheese. Watching The […]

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Star Trek Online Review

Sounds like the game’s got a lot going for it. Just needs to be polished a little more. Loved The Ships: You could put any avatar in a Star Trek uniform and suddenly they’re a Starfleet officer. The real characters in Star Trek Online are the ships. Star Trek Online’s starships are gorgeous creatures, lovingly […]

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Roger Ebert is not dying

From his blog, a commentary on the Esquire article. Well, we’re all dying in increments. I don’t mind people knowing what I look like, but I don’t want them thinking I’m dying. To be fair, Chris Jones never said I was. If he took a certain elegiac tone, you know what? I might have, too. […]

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DJ Hero looks and sounds awesome

Ars Technica reviews: Nothing about the music in this game was done the cheap or easy way, and it shows. You can set up a custom mix of tracks and then just sit back and listen to the music without having to play, or use it as the background music for a party while the […]

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Bloggers Must Disclose Payments for Reviews

Wait, you can get money or freebies for reviewing things? Sheeit. I must be some kind of chump. The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time and mandating that testimonials reflect typical results. The FTC will require that […]

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The Last Guy in the World to See Star Wars

He was the last guy in the world. To say I went into the movie clueless, though, wouldn’t be accurate. You can’t have lived in this world for as long as I have without being exposed to some of the fallout from this pop-culture phenomenon. Just like you can’t avoid being exposed to radiation from […]

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