Sid Meier has hinted that a Civilization MMO may be in his future, something that gets my inner-geek all hot and bothered. Hell, it hasn't even been created yet and I'm already addicted.
“I'm exploring lots of exciting ideas right now. A Civ MMO is a really intriguing idea and we're spending time thinking about how we could make it the fun addictive experience Civ players expect. Beyond that I have some new ideas that are quite different from games I've made in the past – and that's all I'm able to tell you right now.”
According to Meredith Small, Human Nature Columnist for LiveScience, the above photo supposedly shows Harrison Ford wearing a man-bra. She claims, "Ford is dressed in a pair of black pants and a slate blue T-shirt that shows off his buff mid section. But that T-shirt also reveals the shadow of what has to be a manzeer, in the parlance of Seinfeld."
I still don't see it, but whether or not Harrison Ford shops at Victoria's Secret is not the point here. The real issue is why do men have breasts in the first place?
They have them because men start out as women.
As much as men hate to hear this, the human fetal blueprint is initially female. We all begin as a ball of cells that quickly differentiates into various body parts. At five weeks of gestation, the fetus sports a neural tube that eventually become the spine, but other than that, we all look like a wad of chewing gum. Then at six weeks' gestation, the outlines of eyes, arms, legs and a face (and let's not mention the tail that also shows up for a while) appear.
In other words, men have breasts and nipples because they already had them before they became male.
The future of Spider-Man movies isn't so hazy anymore, as Sam Raimi, director of the successful franchise, has told ComingSoon that not only is he interested in returning to the series but that a script for #4 will be done in a few months.
"James Vanderbilt is writing the script and I'm excited to read it. I think it's going to be done in a few months," Raimi told us, adding, "I'm hoping it's as great as our discussions were about it and I'm hoping it feels right for me because I love Spider-Man. I'm hoping I'm well rested enough to embrace it and I'm hoping Sony wants me to do it. If all of those things come together, I would love to do it. There are a lot of unknowns about the future."
This should come as great news for all those people who were scared shitless that Brett Ratner would somehow weasel his way into directing duties.
With Age of Conan making a name for itself in the world of MMOs, some fans may want to immerse themselves in the written words of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan. You may not realize it, but the works of Howard are now in the public domain and freely available, allowing new Conan fans to sink their teeth into the original source material for Funcom's new game.
Not only will you find Conan novels and stories, but you'll also find Solomon Kane works and El Borak stories.
You can grab every published work by Robert. E. Howard here.
Answer: Hedy Lamarr,who appeared in numerous movies throughout the 1930s and 40s, including such classics as Boom Town, White Cargo and Tortilla Flat. What isn't so well known is Hedy's co-invention of the Frequency-Hopped Spread Spectrum, something that was hoped would be used to make radio-guided torpedoes nearly impossible to detect. Unfortunately, the idea was ahead of its time and impractical due to the state of technology in the 40s.
It wasn't until 1962 that Hedy's invention was put to use by U.S. ships during the blockade of Cuba. Unfortunately, the patent had expired by this time and Hedy never saw a penny from her work, despite the fact her spectrum invention is used in current cell-phone technology and WiFi networks.
In honor of Hedy Lamarr, a new play is currently showing in New York called Frequency Hopping, which has a musical score performed by an army of 25 robots. The play runs until June 29th at the 3LD Art & Technology Center.
Uwe Boll, considered the worst-living-director in the universe (and possibly alternate realities) is making it known that he'd be the perfect director for a Grand Theft Auto movie.
“Grand Theft Auto would be super interesting for me, and I think I would actually be the right guy to do it, because my movies are all bloody and violent and I don't have a problem with action scenes,” said the director. “But they will go in the end with a Michael Bay or a Brett Ratner and it will be a PG-13 movie made for $150 million. I think it would be better to make a $30 million, very hard, brutal movie without compromising, but I'm not optimistic.”
I'm sure the execs at Take 2 are scrambling to secure his talents as I write this.
According to National Geographic, an ancient tomb in Greece is thought to hold the remains of Alexander's half-brother, who claimed Alexander's royal gear following his death in 323 B.C.
Excavators at the time found richly appointed graves with artifacts including a unique silver headband, an iron helmet, and a ceremonial shield, along with a panoply of weapons and an object initially identified as a scepter.
"Regarding the paraphernalia we attribute to Alexander, no single item constitutes proof, but the quality of the argument increases with the quantity of information," he said.
"We believe that it is likely that this material was Alexander's. As for the dating of the tombs themselves, this is virtually certain."
As for the treasures:
The six-foot (two-meter) scepter found at the burial site is another clue, Borza added.
"We have several surviving coins issued in his own lifetime showing Alexander holding what appears to be a scepter of about that height," he said.
Additionally, a number of silver vessels discovered in Tomb II and Tomb III are inscribed with their ancient weights, which use a measurement system introduced by Alexander the Great a generation after Philip II's death.
"Once we have determined on archaeological grounds that Tomb II is a generation later than Philip II's death, we can then ask, Whose tomb is it?" Borza said.
"We have a double royal burial from this era attested in the ancient literature. Thus the tomb is that of [Alexander's half brother] Philip III Arrhidaeus and his queen, Adea Eurydice."
Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, gave a speech recently at TED where she discusses her quest for personal creativity. It's a fascinating speech that explores the mystery of creating something from nothing.
The next Terminator movie, titled Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, is zeroing in on a female lead, claims the Hollywood Reporter. The role appears to be going to Moon Bloodgood, who was seen recently in the aborted Journeyman series and is currently filming Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
Moon will be playing "a no-nonsense and battle-hardened member of the resistance." That's code for "hot chick firing guns", which is also known as Geek Paradise.
Check out our compilation of revealing photos on page 2.
Very little is known about the Druids who roamed the lands of England prior to the Roman invasion in 43 AD, though we do know Emperor Claudius ordered the extermination of the cult in 61 AD, wherein all groves and sacred structures related to the Druids were systematically destroyed, leaving us with very little information about who the Druids were.
This lapse in our knowledge may be changing, as archaeologists believe they have discovered the first Druid grave.
In the grave, archaeologists uncovered a board game with the glass counters laid out, medical equipment - the earliest ever found, a tea strainer still containing some kind of herbal brew, and some mysterious metal poles.
The first find at the site was made in 1996. But now, after 12 years of painstaking digging and research, the final report into the unearthing suggests that the grave could be the only one of a druid ever found.
The clues are not just in the objects buried with an obviously important man, but also in the way they are laid out.
The metal rods, possibly used for divining, are in a specific order and near the surgical equipment - scalpel, surgical saw, hooks and forceps. There is also a jet bead, believed to have been seen as magical.
"The so-called druid could have been a doctor. The tea strainer contains artemisia pollen, which is commonly associated with herbal remedies. Healing is an attribute given to druids," said Philip Crummy, director of the Colchester Archaeological Trust.
The ongoing remix experiment headed by Radiohead, iTunes and Garageband has received a lot of great submissions over the past few weeks, and now Thomas Dolby has entered the fray with his own take, which you can hear below.
Edward Norton has released a statement that clarifies the reported dispute between himself and Marvel Studios as it relates to the forthcoming Incredible Hulk movie.
Sounds to me like the suits are begging him play nice.
Ed's statement:
"Like so many people I've loved the story of The Hulk since I was a kid, so it was thrilling when Marvel asked me to write and help produce an altogether new screen incarnation, as well as play Bruce Banner. I grew up reading Marvel Comics and always loved the mythic dimension and contemporary themes in the stories, and I’m proud of the script I wrote. In every phase of production, including the editing, working with Louis Leterrier has been wonderful...I've never had a better partner, and the collaboration with all the rest of the creative team has been terrific. Every good movie gets forged through collaboration, and different ideas among people who are all committed and respect the validity of each other's opinions is the heart of filmmaking. Regrettably, our healthy process, which is and should be a private matter, was misrepresented publicly as a 'dispute,' seized on by people looking for a good story, and has been distorted to such a degree that it risks distracting from the film itself, which Marvel, Universal and I refuse to let happen. It has always been my firm conviction that films should speak for themselves and that knowing too much about how they are made diminishes the magic of watching them. All of us believe The Incredible Hulk will excite old fans and create new ones and be a huge hit...our focus has always been to deliver the Hulk that people have been waiting for and keep the worldwide love affair with the big green guy going strong.''
I never really considered Summer Glau, star of Firefly and the new Terminator series, particularly hot in the traditional sense, but a new photo from Vanity Fair finds me recalibrating my impressions. That's not the psycho River I remember.
Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood has been documenting the ongoing feud between Edward Norton, star of the forthcoming Hulk flick, and Marvel Studios. It appears Mr. Norton wanted a better edit of the movie, one that placed more emphasis on character development, while Marvel Studios wanted a lean, mean, green fighting machine. Marvel won and the film you may (or may not) see in theaters will be what Marvel wants.
I've said before that Edward Norton's warm support of The Incredible Hulk is vital if the pic's gonna have any street cred. Now the movie's core fans know that Marvel put commercial viability ahead of character development. It was always a risky gambit for Marvel to start self-financing its comic book movies. So, if this film disappoints (and considering this is a remake of Ang Lee's audience-dissed Hulk, that's a real possibility), it's all Maisel's fault. As an insider put it, "Maisel is an ass. There's truth in that statement."
Patrick Stewart may have looked mean-and-lean in that tight-fitting Star Trek uniform but the appearance came at high-cost, according to a recent interview.
"I came to loathe the costume. We actually got rid of it after the second season thanks to my chiropractor, who said, 'If they don't take you out of that costume we are going to slap a lawsuit on Paramount for the lasting damage done to your spine. The producers wanted to have a smooth, unwrinkled look. It put a terrible amount of strain on the shoulders, neck and back."
I'm still awaiting word if LeVar Burton suffered any undue pain from those lame glasses he had to wear as Geordi La Forge. I still claim those glasses look like an air-filter.
