Apple developers, you're living on the edgeThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:20AMApple's sending some seriously mixed messages to developers. A paid app gets yanked from the App Store hours after appearing in Steve Jobs' keynote, he calls rejected app store complainers liars, but he says the platform is still a gold mine. Sure, a dangerous one.
Tales of the DeadFriday, August 20, 2010 @ 7:35AMSkip It Tales of the Dead: My cheery glow from watching Faces of Schlock has well worn off, what with watching writer/director Kemal Yildirim's Tales of the Dead , a well-intentioned but risible effort in the low-budget horror anthology sweepstakes. Schlock is funny and fiercely original in its sassy, slacker way, while Tales is dour, talky, melancholic, slight, short (only 70 minutes ...
Dating Tips for the Modern ManMonday, August 16, 2010 @ 1:29PMFiled under: Luv Coach I'm a relationship coach, so any time I meet someone new, I have to ask "Are you seeing any one?" Some people cringe when I ask this, as the pain of a recent break up crosses their face. Others roll their eyes, exhausted at the thought of having to talk about their endless quest for love and the unlimited number of miserable dates they've been on. There are those who yearn ...
Interview: Author Susan Orlean on her life with the iPadSunday, August 8, 2010 @ 6:12PMSusan Orlean has become a geek, something that simultaneously amuses and mildly horrifies her. Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992, and is known for her richly detailed features about places and people.
Gene Simmons of KISS plays golf for Pacific UniversitySaturday, August 7, 2010 @ 7:24AMWhen we talk about Gene Simmons, we talk about the fire-breathing, blood-spitting founder of Kiss.
Gene Simmons plays golf for Pacific UniversityFriday, August 6, 2010 @ 5:05PMWhen we talk about Gene Simmons, we talk about the fire-breathing, blood-spitting founder of Kiss, whose kabuki-painted, comic book heavy metal has been familiar to head-banging kids (and their tormented parents) for nearly 40 years. And so much more. The leering Lothario with his self-proclaimed thousands of conquests. The misogynist boor whose verbal harassment of National Public Radio’s Terry ...
Jonathan Ross meets Jim Steranko, his comic-book heroThursday, July 22, 2010 @ 8:50AMThe TV presenter and comic-book obsessive on the extraordinary work of graphic storyteller Jim Steranko. Ross will be blogging for the Guardian from Comic-Con this weekend • In pictures: Steranko's best work Jim Steranko. Many of you will not have heard his name before, a dreadful truth that troubles me every day. If he were French they'd have his statue in parks, Italian he'd be on their stamps ...
10 Worst Youtube Music Video RemakesFriday, July 9, 2010 @ 1:15PMI’ll just go ahead and say it: thank God for Youtube. How did we ever entertain ourselves before Youtube? Reading? Horseshoes? Strip clubs? It’s hard to think about. It’s hard to think about what life was like before Youtube, before this crawled into our living rooms, or this made Romanian dance-pop cool, and reminded people [...]
Comic-Con 2010 Thursday Schedule: Our Film Panel PicksThursday, July 8, 2010 @ 1:48PMCheck out our movie panel picks for day one of the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con.