Archive for August 10th, 2008

New Comics for the week of 8/13/2008

ACTION COMICS #868 AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #23 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #567 ANGEL AFTER THE FALL #11 ASTONISHING X-MEN #26 MD BATMAN #679 RIP BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #20 BATMAN STRIKES #48 [...]

Star Trek: Sulu, Scotty, McCoy and Chekov Revealed!

Four new character posters from JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek have been revealed at VegasCon 08. TrekMovie was able to take a photo of the four posters, which like the Comic Con posters, combine to form the Star Trek delta emblem. Clockwise we have John Cho as Sulu, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Karl Urban as McCoy [...]

A Few New Details on Star Trek Online

Cryptic’s Leonard Nimoy-equipped world reveal for Star Trek Online may be set for tomorrow, but the Associated Press has passed on a few details a little early.
Star Trek Online players will create a character that can be modeled either after one of Star Trek’s famous alien species, or based on original player-created alien [...]

Microsoft and Intel Tried to Kill $100 Laptop - Report

The UK’s TIMES ONLINE claims that Microsoft and Intel tried to strangle the $100 lapop project (for kids in poor countries) in its crib. From the article: "Microsoft, makers of most of the computer software in the world, tried to kill it with words, and Intel, maker of most computer chips, tried to kill it [...]

Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense.

THE best password is a long, nonsensical string of letters and numbers and punctuation marks, a combination never put together before. Some admirable people actually do memorize random strings of characters for their passwords — and replace them with other random strings every couple of months.
Then there’s the rest of us, selecting the short, [...]