Wrongcrowd.com

Interviews with movie & TV people of interest to geeks

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:01:32 -0700

"Den of Geek" has a load of interviews with movie & TV folks. Subjects include John Carpenter, Andy Serkis, Dan O'Bannon, and more...

Wrongcrowd.com is HUGE in Switzerland

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:48:23 -0700

This site's administrator was recently contacted by a Swiss newspaper which wished to use a photo from the wrongcrowd.com gallery in a newspaper article about HDR photography. How the Swiss tech writer selected this photo from the millions of high dynamic range shots out there will forever be mysterious, but the espresso stand on Kirkland's Juanita Beach is now famous among a small subset of German speaking Swiss newspaper readers.

Article text at the SonntagsZeitung web site
PDF of the printed page

Sony Online Entertainment's "The Agency" in the Seattle Times

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:39:06 -0700

Sony Online Entertainment's game studio in Bellevue is on a missionwith "The Agency," a James Bondish thriller it has been developingsince 2005.

The mission's getting less secret by the day � especially since theSony division boss will talk it up during a games conference in Seattlethis week � but it's still pretty intriguing.Sony is hoping "TheAgency" creates a new genre that blends the action of first-personshooting games with the immersive experience of massively multiplayeronline (MMO) games.

Read the rest.

Crank 2 story setup!

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:12:18 -0700

How does Chev Chelios survive after falling out of a helicopter? What gimmick will move Crank 2 along? Latino Review has some intel for you, Crank fans. Be warned: the article contains spoilers about how the movie begins.

New scuba club in Kirkland, WA: the Mud Sharks

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:00:00 -0700

A site is born.

SOE's "The Agency": Summary of news coverage

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:34:04 -0800

Sony Online Entertainment is producing a third-person action shooter MMO called The Agency. They showed the game at CES last week, and a flood of press coverage resulted. Here is a list of the articles which are known as of this writing.

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3165295

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3165296&sec=PREVIEWS

http://www.massively.com/2008/01/07/new-screenshots-from-the-agency/

http://onaxis.blogspot.com/2008/01/agency-five-new-screenshots-information.html

http://www.massively.com/2008/01/08/watch-the-first-gameplay-video-of-the-agency/

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/theagency/news.html?page=1&sid=6184464&tag=top_stories;title;8

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29479.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29480.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29483.html

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/sony-online-spy-mmo-untitled/844385p1.html

http://ps3.gamespy.com/playstation-3/sony-online-mercenary-mmo-untitled/844394p1.html

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/844/844374p1.html

http://digg.com/playstation/Sony_Online_Entertainment_reveals_The_Agency_game_play

http://xps-hosting.com/ps3/?p=3844

http://www.yougamers.com/news/16505_new_the_agency_screens/

http://pc.qj.net/Video-Sony-Online-Entertainment-reveals-The-Agency-game-play/pg/49/aid/111199

http://community.eu.playstation.com/showthread.php?t=193683

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29501.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29500.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29499.html

http://www.massively.com/2008/01/09/gametrailers-video-developer-walkthrough-for-the-agency/

http://www.konsolekingz.com/blog/?p=616

http://kotaku.com/342362/the-agency-targeting-the-halo-crowd-for-sexy-mmo-time

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29567.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29566.html

http://www.konsolekingz.com/blog/?p=628

http://kotaku.com/343504/the-agency-walk+through

http://www.destructoid.com/ces-2008-sneak-a-look-at-soe-s-the-agency-63834.phtml

http://www.gamersinfo.net/index.php?art/id:2060

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/01/ces-2008-first.html

http://podcasts.aolcdn.com/joystiq/podcasts/Joystiq_Podcast_033.mp3

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165397

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/01/12/sony-online-entertainment-plans-to-invade-psn-in-2008/

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/gameId/292/setView/features/loadFeature/1685

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200801/N08.0104.1427.24837.htm

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29665.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29666.html

Speck MacBook case mini review, temperature comparison

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:09:48 -0800

Speck makes a tight fitting plastic shell for MacBooks. In brief, the shell fits well and doesn't seem to add a lot of bulk to the laptop. There are cutouts for the ports, and it's pretty much something you can slap on and forget about. After a few days of use, the Speck shell seems like a viable alternative to using a slipcase.

It is likely that wrapping your laptop in plastic would prevent it from dumping heat as well. Here are before and after numbers, from a 2.4GHz 17" Macbook Pro. (Temperature data is from Marcel Bresink's free Temperature Monitor.)

The temperatures are up across the board, but by a small amount. The computer wasn't heavily loaded for these tests, so this does not represent the worst case scenario, but the increase seems to be reasonable. YMMV.

Picture of the Cloverfield monster?

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:12:32 -0800

This picture was found online so it must be legit.

Update: FAKE. (but neat anyway)

Interview with Stephen King

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:13:32 -0800

Whatever you might think about his politics, he's an interesting guy. This interview touches on current events, The Mist, and past movies.
There have been so many movies and TV miniseries made from your stories and, not to be disrespectful, but some of them are stinkers. Sleepwalkers, Sometimes They Come Back and its various sequels, etc... How do you maintain quality control? Do you even try?
I'd go crazy. I don't try to maintain quality control. Except I try to get good people involved. The thing is, when you put together a script, a director, and all the other variables, you never really know what's going to come out. And so you start with the idea that it's like a baseball game � you put the best team you can on the field, and you know that, more times than not, you're gonna win.

Photos of things in No Photography Zones

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:37:03 -0800

"Neener neener neener."

http://www.strictlynophotography.com/