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One thing I can’t help but take notice of, on each and every day, is my feed count with feedburner up there in the upper right side-bar. That has varied from a high of 40 all the way down to a low of 23 over the past two months. I have no idea what happens there. It is like a rollercoaster ride. I know it’s no big deal before anyone says anything. But, I can’t help but be curious how it

CGTalk (the forum from CGSociety) is a place where great CG artists like to show-off their work. I'm especially amazed by the 3d stills section of the forum, showcasing beautiful and breathtaking 3d models. This article is a collection of the most badass 3d fictional characters from CGTalk. Get ready to see some awesome badass characters that you don't want to see as a boss in a game: They'll s

Emmett Brown vs Dr WhoProfessor Honeydew vs BeakerQ vs Dr. EvilAnd Mr Science vs The Ordinary Guy?This week the podcast has joined forces with the Brains Matter podcast to discuss the topic of our favourite fictional scientists. We looked at the poll and at your suggestions, then chatted at length over Skype about what turned out to be quite an interesting topic. There is certainly scope for more

Emmett Brown vs Dr WhoProfessor Honeydew vs BeakerQ vs Dr. EvilAnd Mr Science vs The Ordinary Guy?This week the podcast has joined forces with the Brains Matter podcast to discuss the topic of our favourite fictional scientists. We looked at the poll and at your suggestions, then chatted at length over Skype about what turned out to be quite an interesting topic. There is certainly scope for more

In one scene form Sex and the City The movie, Carrie Bradshaw is reading to Mr. Big from a book called Love Letters of Great Men. When fans inundated the bookshops to buy the book, they discovered a snag. It didn’t exist! The book was created especially for the movie and was not available in [...]

Who is your favourite fictional scientist? I've come up with my top 14 covering my favourites from my formative years, including Doc Emmette Brown and his flux capacitor, the parapsychology-studying ghostbusters and the crazy muppet scientists Beaker and Honeydew.Have a vote in the poll and once we get enough responses, we'll close it off and write detailed profiles of those scientists who top the

Who is your favourite fictional scientist? I've come up with my top 14 covering my favourites from my formative years, including Doc Emmette Brown and his flux capacitor, the parapsychology-studying ghostbusters and the crazy muppet scientists Beaker and Honeydew.Have a vote in the poll and once we get enough responses, we'll close it off and write detailed profiles of those scientists who top the

New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Television actor and anchor Mona Singh, who shot to fame as the nerdy, bespectacled Jassi on TV, is making a conscious effort to stay away from regular soap operas based on family dramas.

 This really isn’t surprising to me. Al Gore took a scene from the (fiction) movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” which in itself was a propaganda movie, and used it in his own propaganda “documentary,” “An Inconvenient Truth.” The scene in question was a computer generated image and is not real. On Friday, it was revealed by ABC [...]

They tease us, act selfishly, and even sleep with our friends on occasion, but goddamnit, if we don’t still spend hours and hours thinking up ways to make them smile. A beautiful woman may have been behind every war ever fought, but her delicate effervescence also manifests itself in every piece of art ever created. Seems like a fair tradeoff to me

I often joke about my fictional staff (see also: 80east Design's Fictional Holiday Party, 2006). When I moved in January...I neglected to tell my three fictional assistants where I moved...and it looks like one of them has ended up back at the King Burger (see above).Say hello to LaDawna Marie - also known as Bon Qui Qui.Enjoy.

Forbes ha realizado por tercer año consecutivo la lista de los millonarios ficticios. Es decir los 15 personajes de ficción mas ricos.Para elaborar The Forbes Fictional 15, los candidatos deben ser personajes de ficción realizados por un autor y cuya fama se deba a su fortuna . El patrimonio de los personajes se [...]

Sims 3 - do fictional virtual worlds still have a role?Guardian, UK - 56 minutes agoBut when you think about it, the first title was released in 2000 - three years before Second Life, four years before World of Warcraft, five years before … Written by Google Inc. and Powered by WordPress

The Real Cities We Know and the Fictional Cities They Inspireby Paul O'BrienNew York plays host to a lot of stories, but this past weekend (New York Comic-Con, February 25th and 26th, 2006) was the first time it played host to a major comic convention. Paul O'Brien looks at the distance between the real cities we know and the fictional cities they inspire.27 February 2006Source: Ninth ArtThe article which follows is not really about comics. Or maybe it is. I'm not sure. Before writing one of these columns, I usually go back and check the news sites just in case there's something I'm overlooking (or, even better, something obscure yet interesting). As I sat down this week, it struck me that I couldn't remember anything at all happening recently. Mind you, I've been busy, so maybe I just was

If you’ve been reading this blog, you know how much BS there is in finance—and how detrimental it can be—but now it turns out there’s even more BS in publishing. Publishing memoirs that is. (Since my entire life has been based on discovering and profiting from BS—and now profiting by cutting through that BS—is it [...]

Just a quick reminder that all those participating in the CDP Nationwide Mix-Tape Trade should have their mixed mailed out by Monday, February 11. Make someone's Valentine's Day all the more awesome! Any questions, comments or concerns should be sent my way immediately.Let's move on.Friday Night Lights, despite its slightly outlandish and borderline-sellout second season, is still one of the best shows on network television (second only to Lost, if you axe me). This is one of those rare television shows about High School and small-town life that really resonates and feels genuine, and part of its success is the outstanding cast and semi-realistic character development.Recently completing a three-episode arc on the show was the character of Jean Binnel, played adobably perfect by breakout a

Ever wondered who was the richest Scrooge McDuck or Monty Burns? well someone at Forbeshas - and they produce a rich list estimating fictional characters worth.Forbes claim the figures are calculated using known commodity and share price movements, performance of actual companies that are similar to fictional ones and "Using a tiny grain of common sense and a large dose of salt".Top of the list is Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks ($36.2 billion) originating from the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie". Daddy Warbucks first appeared in the 1920,s and his fortune originates from munition sales during World War One.Ranked second in the list is the more familiar Montgomery Burns from the Simpsons, his value has doubled in the past year due to a"technology exchange" deal with North Korean dictator Kim Jon

The book, 100 Miles to Destiny, was written by Serra Cross Country Coach Willis McCarthy. It was six and a half years in the making and worth the read. "Mr. Will McCarthy, chemistry teacher and cross country coach at Serra High School in San Mateo, CA has a great story to tell – a story of passion, a story of the human spirit. So he says in the opening of his preface in his self-published work of fiction, 100 Miles to Destiny, a Novel on Running. McCarthy writes, “In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred eighty-four, three hundred seventy men and women assembled at the base of Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe to participate in an inaugural 100 Mile Endurance Run World Championship. I was one of the participants. The 1984 race, the eighth edition of the Western States Trail Run, spawned the idea of this novel.” An avid runner for twenty-five years, Coach McCarthy has run races of half mile track runs to 100 mile endurance runs, and after concluding his running career in 2

Imagine a world without lightsabers—where, instead, every big Star Wars finale consists of a 10-minute slap fight. Thank the maker we’ll never have to witness such a spectacle, because magical and impossibly high-tech weapons are staples of nearly all of our favorite entertainments! [more]

Link to Superman's image obtained from public images Yesterdays Tuesday Question was fun, and I thank everyone who contributed!I knew I would get many different comments from this question, and boy did I, all the way from Superman to Sherlock Holmes. Sandee at Comedy Plus, was among the first to suggest Superman, followed by Marja, and Dawn, then Christy so I was beginning to think the character was going to remain the only answer. Although things began to change for the super hero about mid-day, when an array of impressive literary characters began to appear. (I sound like a sports commentator covering a football game, don't I?)Anyway, I bet Wonder Woman, Spiderman, Batman, etc... had their feelings hurt because Superman was the only super hero suggested. Superman does have a certain boy next door charm, but the other super heroes have their special talents as well, so I felt sorry for them- but I guess the imagery associated with Superman is hard to resist. You know, the idea

Hello and welcome to another Tuesday's Question. I love today's question: If you could make the actions and story behind the life of a fictional character in a book or movie come true, what character would that be? For example, what character do you think would've made the world a better place had they really existed? The two characters who immediately came to mind for me, were Charlotte from Charlotte's web and Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird.You can choose any fictional character from a novel, movie, poem, situation comedy, even a cartoon... Just think of the story behind the character and the choices they made. What kind of people were they and what might they have given to the world? Don't forget, I'll post your comments with a link as always, to give your blog exposure, in addition to give other blogs an opportunity to engage in conversation with you or post a link to your comment. Like, for instance, what happened last week, when Misty and Sandee's comments wer

By Carlos Benito CamachoIt was when dark clouds blotted out the sun. It was when a chilling wind blew relentlessly, raising dust and dead leaves. It was when the world in which he gotten stranded, with everything that belonged in it, moving and static, seemed to have gotten snagged in a leaden nook of time. It was eons before, when he had become eternally old; when his shriveling heart pumped pointlessly the curdling blood of a fading existence. It was when the impending change was coming, slantingly fast, out of nowhere, like the swing of scythe, cutting deeply, gouging out fragments of time-warped reality He stirred, coughing. “I want to be!” he screamed hoarsely at the wind, with a poignant sense of inconsistency. Scanning about his surroundings with a distant eye, he realized he was alone; not a single creature which used to moved about in every forms. The deso

A shock to some, a confirmed interpretation for others, this isn’t fan fiction. This is a candid revelation about JK Rowling’s writing process and prowess: BBC NEWS | Entertainment | JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay She took audience questions and was asked if Dumbledore found “true love”. “Dumbledore is gay,” she said, adding he was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a battle between good and bad wizards long ago. The audience gasped, then applauded. “I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy,” she said. “Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” she added, saying Dumbledore was “horribly, terribly let down” and his love for Grindelwald was his “great tragedy” I applaud JK’s decision to reveal this intriguing tid bit about Dumbledore’s backstory. I do so, not just because it will piss off the religious right even more about the Potter books,

We can learn a lot from literature and film. For example, despite the gender difference, I take inspiration from Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone With the Wind, which was made into a famous film. Each day, immediately upon waking up, before even getting out of bed, I like to shout the last part of the last sentence of Mitchell's novel: "tomorrow is another day!" That gives me a blank check to slack off for the rest of the day.

Jonathan Plummer, the ex-husband of “Waiting to Exhale” author Terry McMillan, has written a novel about a Jamaican man whose ordinary life was disrupted when a powerful woman crosses his path and brings him into her world. Sound familiar? “Balancing Act: A Novel,” to be released Sept. 4 by Simon & Schuster, is described by the company as “a sexy and satisfying novel as deliciously racy as the life he lived," reports Contra Costa Times. Although the work is fiction, the story is based on his own marriage to McMillan, which ended in a nasty divorce in 2006 after he revealed to her that he is gay. ____________________________________________________________________________________ In “Balancing Act,” the woman owns a modeling agency and decides to sign the “handsome Jamaican man,” described in a press release as having “hazel green eyes offset by dark chocolate skin" as well as a "perfect body and defiant attitude." All make the woman's "palms sweat." But the

The Colorado Springs Gazette spoke with Louise Simonson, who'd spent at least two decades as a writer in the field, about DC Comics Covergirls, which she's an editor of, but I can't help but wonder if some of what she says here is being used by the newspaper as a superficial apology for what misogyny exists there today. At the end of the article:Just as superhero comics appeal largely to male readers, they’re also created largely by men. But Simonson, who now focuses most of her attention on writing children’s books, said she never felt out of place in comics.“Back when I was working on Superman, we were treated as a team. I don’t think I was treated any different from the guys.”But what about the women of the DC Universe? And the Marvel Universe? Any woman who'd worked in the comics medium over the years could surely be diplomatic for the sake of good relations with otherwise appalling people, or the writer, whom I'm not forgetting glossed over Identity Crisis, chose to

I read an article recently on Yahoo News that has been lurking in the back of my mind ever since. The article was written about a group of scientists that had been researching the possibilities of making an Invisibility Cloak as per Harry Potter. The bottom line was that said scientists had taken the fictional prop penned by JK Rowling and made it a reality. As I read the article it was passing through my mind that well paid research scientists must have something better to do than try and bring a literary device off the page and into the real world. However, further reading revealed all. One day it could be used in a military capacity to hide military hardware on a battlefield.I have to wonder whether any of the scientists involved in this project were part of the team that proved it was possible to teleport atoms from one side of a laboratory to the other, in much the same way that Gene Roddenberry had people teleported from the star ship Enterprise to the surface of whatever planet

I've lost hopeNo more waysNo more feelingsSo today will be the birthdayOf my fictional friendsOf my second lifeThat neither existNor likely to existIn that life I'll beIn that life I'll doWhat I wasn't, what I didn'tWith EMy friends will be what I missedWith EI'll even have a girlfriendThat I wish will representTo E what SJ represented to meWill she be hurt?I don't think soIf she willWhy is she still with himI hope notI don't want to hurt her anymoreI just her to get rid of that pity for meI just want to tell herThat I have a life without herLike herI'm very happy without herLike herI'm not waiting herLike herThat's why I called it a fictional lifeThat neither existNor likely to exist

I remembered seeing this old thread once on Newsarama from September 2003 that talked about the attention that JLA #83 got for its very awkward political, if metaphorical, statement on the war in Iraq. But as weak as that issue was, however you look upon it, that's not what I found ridiculous about it. No, what was ridiculous about this article was how they described the situation surrounding Michael Medved's argument on Marvel's degradation of Captain America, and you are not going to believe how they put it here, or maybe you are:In April, conservative commentator Michael Medved took Marvel Comics to task for allowing Captain America to question the United States' role and culpability in the "war on terror."The problem here is two-fold:First, what exactly do they mean when they say that Marvel "allowed" Steve Rogers to question the battle against an evil that even the Star-Spangled Avenger would find abhorrent? Is he a real person, and presumably was being hypnotized into being a

Okay, so anyone who knows me a bit, knows how concerned I am about my characters being real and 3-D. I don't like one-dimensional characters, I like development, I like character driven books (although I have been know to be an Asimov fan, so go figure...).In any event, lately, I decided my antagonist needed a little change in character to make him more interesting. You see, despite the interesting bits I tried to inject to his character, at the end of the day, I felt he was predictable.So I made him do something out of character. Being the selfish, self-centered, control freak that he is, I made him do a selfless act.I discussed this with a buddy who said that while in real life, this would probably never happen as we do tend to stay in character, in fiction it is necessary. Fictional characters, he said, should act totally against their nature as it adds more depth to them and it makes for great drama.So it's a funny thing. I keep wanting to have "real characters," yet to make them

Research and development. More research and development. Day-dreaming about the beginning and end of your story. Brainstorming. Hearing your characters chit-chat with each other in your head (Scary, isn’t it?)… It turns out there’s an actual term for all this meandering around instead of writing. No, it’s not called ‘writer’s block’. lol It’s called