This is the second trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ “The Dark Knight Rises”, the epic conclusion to filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. Okay, so the geek in me gave me got chills while watching this trailer. Watch the trailer and see if it lives up to your expectations.
China has come a long way in 2011 while the U.S. continues to decline. I see a superpower reversal in our future, and while that seems far-fetched to many who still think of China as the Great Wall and people on bicycles, see the video below: MAD architects: ordos museum completed from designboom on Vimeo. This museum is in Inner [...]
Steven Moffat, producer of Doctor Who, has recently revealed, some good news. The beloved companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) will finally be leaving the show for good sometime during season seven. They will be replaced by a new companion, continuing with the tradition. Moffat made the announcement during a screening of the much-anticipated Christmas day [...]
It’s an interesting strategy: Facebook has teamed up with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in a new initiative that makes the Lifeline counselors available 24/7 on Facebook chat. ZDnet’s Emil Protalinski explains how it’s meant to work: If a Facebook friend spots a suicidal thought on someone’s profile, that person can report it to Facebook by clicking a link next [...]
This is one dark and gritty-looking poster, which hopefully sets the tone of the movie. Here, we see Bane walking away from a Batman’s broken mask. It’s called “The Dark Knight Rises,” but this poster features a broken Batman. Will this mean that “The Dark Knight Rises” will take the same route that the comic book storyline does, when Bane [...]
If religions helps to influence some of your decisions, then you don’t have to debate over Apple or Android anymore. Pope Benedict XVI switched on the world-famous Christmas tree in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy yesterday using a Sony Android tablet. He was in Vatican City, while his Android button-pressing was broadcast live in the town (Angels sing). The Christmas tree takes [...]
Remember a while back we wrote about NASA looking for new astronauts? It looks like the search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has resumed at the Allen Telescope Array in northern California. The project was suspended for months due to a lack of funding. Thanks to public funding, and support from the US Air Force, SETI’s telescopes will once again resume [...]
I feel sorry for Timelines.com, which is a cool site that allows users to post information about a historical event so that the site encompasses many years of history. The home page opens to This Week in History and you can search by topic (assassinations) or by date. On my exact birthday, for instance, Dr. Seuss got married. On my [...]