#July2012

Reseachers create synthetic iris that can bypass eye-scanning security systems. The future is nao!

Researchers have drummed up this fantastic way to get around eye-scanning security systems. Let’s see if you can understand exactly how they do it, because it makes my skull all sorts of shades hurt.

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‘CAPTAIN AMERICA’ designs for Marvel NOW! by OPENA and Cassaday revealed.

Jerome Opena and John Cassaday have both dropped new designs for Captain America to be used in the Marvel NOW! initiative. The odd thing is how different the two are. Like, which one is going to be canon? I’m way digging Opena’s reimagining, so I’m pulling for that one to go all de facto.

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LADY GAGA is in ‘MACHETE KILLS’, rounding out craziest cast ever.

Lady Gaga. Mel Gibson. Charlie Sheen. Machete Kills. This cast is going to be out of its goddamn mind.

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‘DEAD SPACE 3’ screenshots remind me that despite my bitching, I’ll buy it.

Despite all my hot-winded, rot-gutted bitching about Dead Space 3, I’m not going to pass on the title. I just can’t. Even a neutered installment in the franchise is better than nothing at all. At least to me. Here’s some new screenshots for the jam, screenshots that have my balls a bit tender.

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Cosplay: This Renly Baratheon cosplay impales your mind with awesome.

Putting this Renly Baratheon cosplay behind a spoiler wall. It’s safe for work, but unsafe for those who haven’t seen season two.

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Google unveils ‘GOOGLE FIBER’, a f**king insane BROADBAND and TV Service.

Good glorious Jesus Christ, Google’s latest venture seems insane. Dubbed “Google Fiber”, it’s all sorts of lightning-quick internet and ridiculous TV options. I have a boner.

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‘CLOUD ATLAS’ SIX MINUTE TRAILER: Gorgeous visuals, brutally dumb dialogue.

Goddamn, this trailer for Cloud Atlas stinks like hog ass. It has some gorgeous visuals, I’ll cop to that. The rest of it is a nightmare of awful dialogue, pedantic murmurings on love, and a pretty boring score. I’ll still see the joint. It’s got too much buzz around it not to dabble in its seeming bloat.

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Cosplay: SEXY CHEWBACCA will make you feel things. Confusing things. Perhaps yearn for hair balls.

It’s fine. Give in. I won’t tell anyone. Really.

‘CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER’ CO-DIRECTOR’ chats up about flashbacks and Cap’s growth.

Captain America: Winter Soldier Rules co-director Anthony Russo recently opened up to The Huffington Post about the direction Cap’s sequel is going. He does a lot of dancing around the issues, but I don’t know what else you would expect. Movie is almost two years out, it is a bit early to begin going spoiler alerting.

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The Dude’s High 5s: Top 5 Memorable Video Game Boss Fights

There are many things that contributing to a video game being great.  The story, the mechanics, the graphics.  They all contribute to enhance our experience.  One of the things I love is a good boss fight.  They can vary from game to game too.  The boss fight is typically a culmination of the skills learned over the course of a level or if it’s the last boss, the game.  So here are the 5 boss fights that stand out in my mind as entertaining or memorable.

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