12th
July
2008
Ponderings For 2008-07-12
posted in Ponderings |- Today was one of those days where nothing could go quite right for me. Not that it was filled with major problems, just lots of bad bits of timing and other stupidities. So, I’ll try and end the day by digging through some fun stuff and sharing it with y’all…
- NASA has mapped out the final flights of the space shuttles through 2010. Only 10 more launches, then the remaining 3 shuttles of the fleet will be retired. It’ll be the end of an era.
- Good ol’ Darth Mojo has done an excellent, detailed write-up of the Battlestar Galactica wrap-party (well, part one of his write-up, with more parts to follow soon)
- So, will The Dark Knight meet the $130 million opening weekend expectations? As the article says, WB is predicting $100 to make it easier for expectations to be met. It’s amazing for some of these films to be able to low ball conservative numbers at $100 million. My prediction will be somewhere around $140 million. I’m absolutely going to be seeing The Dark Knight in IMAX form (with some scenes featuring native IMAX filming with full IMAX screen aspect), but I’m not crazy enough to try the IMAX screenings on opening weekend. If the fan anticipation of this movie wasn’t high enough, the critic response so far has been through the roof.
- In a neato marketing move, Warner Bros is promoting The Dark Knight with an actual bat signal.
- A nice list of Firefox 3 features most folks don’t know about. Multi-select is my favorite
- Here’s a stunning shot of Dubai covered in fog, taken from the very high Burj Dubai Tower
- An amusing photo lampooning the questionable recent missile test photos from Iran
- DrivePricing.com is a nifty mash-up of Google maps with gas pricing and such
- Or if you’d prefer something a little more cheerful than gas pricing in your Google Maps mash-up, try HealthMap.org.
- So, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 has truly hit the end of life cycle
- This is just too good - Buzz Aldrin decks a very annoying conspiracy theorist
- Google is making a nice change to GMail’s contact system, introducting a new version of the contact manager that doesn’t automatically add everyone you send an e-mail to into your contacts. It’ll have a new “suggested contacts.”
- Mary Parent, who was the studio exec at Universal who green lit Joss Whedon’s long-shot Serenity, has given the green light to a script by Joss & writer Drew Goddard called The Cabin In The Woods now that she’s over at MGM. This is quite cool. Goddard has become quite the collaborator with both Joss Whedon (formerly working on Buffy & Angel) as well as JJ Abrams (working on Alias & Lost, and the feature film Cloverfield).
