My excuse is that I tried out the Portal 2 user-made levels a bit and got stumped by what was later blindingly obvious caught up in my service to science. I think my install, even after file verification, is bugged somewhere, as I don’t hear any of Cave Johnson’s pithy dialog and the graphics shown on the Aperture entry area monitors are always those for the Animal King Takeover. Anyway, I enjoyed “12 Angry Tests” and the “Decay” series. Now that I feel like my low I.Q. has been thoroughly demonstrated I’ve furthered some research, I’ll leave you with this other stuff:
• i09 has all of your fantasy and sci-fi shows announced for next season, though apparently “just plain odd” fits that description. I would love to have watched the pitch meeting for ABC’s Zero Hour, assuming it isn’t a comedy.
• Starting a movie without a script might work for Michael Bay, but will it work for Men in Black III, along with its $375 million price tag?
• Here’s a series of captioned images that show alternate endings to famous film scenes. It’s worth it mostly for seeing what would happen if Phil Tippet had finally done his freakin’ job.
• If you need some distraction, here’s Evoke. It’s a “spot the difference” game that’s probably got the most subtle differences I’ve seen in such an offering. Thankfully, it lets you skip levels if you find enough of the diffs.




Scientists were probably re-watching the 80′s version of
• Here’s the names of the principal heroes from The Avengers
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Ever since the days of the Soundblaster and the CD-ROM drive, I’ve had headphones as a vital computer accessory. I’ve almost never been happy with them. For a long time, I used the larger studio-style headphones, but they had their problems: They were heavy and cumbersome, the leather (or whatever passed for it) would degrade long before the electronic parts would, and later on, I discovered that the pressure they exerted in clinging to the sides of my head would, over time, cause the bridge of my glasses to bend, weaken, and break (even titanium).
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That’s one sad-looking Batman, there. He’s part of