The teaser for Joss Whedon’s upcoming on-line series Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog looks like it’ll be nerdtastic, which is not really a big surprise.
Whedon says -
“It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to.”
Sounds a little autobiographical if you ask me.
Staring Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer, Felicia Day as Penny, the show will consist of three ten-minute episodes.
We’re computer nerds. We’re FireFox web browser nerds. We’re robot nerds. So obviously this little Easter Egg found in FireFox 3 got us all a flitter. Type “about:robots” into the address bar and you get the image your see below.
What is a jaded SciFi fan to do these days when the SciFi Channel just seems to not care about you anymore? Yeah, yeah, there’s Battlestar Galactica but really… what have they done for us lately? Well if you’re a guy like Steve Davidson you start your own SciFi channel is what you do my friend. And Steve did just that, well kind of. Steve has set up on the Internet The Classic Science Fiction Channel, a place to watch a good number of classic SciFi. From Johnny Soko and His Flying Robot to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Steve’s on a mission to bring back the SciFi to Science Fiction.
As Steve explains
“THIS is the channel I’d watch on a regular basis - even if it was only on for background noise. Sure, some of the shows are definitely hokey and I’d probably flip over to Discovery or History when they aired (even despite the fact that this would be my own channel) - but from the small bit of research I’ve done on the net, every single one of them has a fan base that would love to be able to see them on the boob tube again, so who am I to judge?”
How can we argue that? Now it’s off to watch The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.
And yet another ARG (Alternate Reality Game) is on the radar, but no one seems to know what it’s for as of yet. We’ll call it Holomove for now since that’s the site of interest right now, and well everyone else is doing the same.
Jim Merithew, writer for Wired’s The Underwire, received a package that contained a paper crane, a memo from the Department of Energy and an empty Emergen-C packet with a sticker with a multicolored chemical model. Same for someone from the ARG forum Unffiction. Once some clues were put together that took you to the above mentioned site. There you find the blog of one Nate Bozeman, who was recently hired as lead software developer for the company. And then that takes you to all sorts of other on-line clues.
Right now there’s no real clues as to what this particular ARG will be for. Some are speculating it’s for a as yet named Microsoft product since the game has referenced two actual employees who’ve Twittered about the game’s main character (Nate Bozeman) and appear to be involved in the game. Another theory is that it could be for the upcoming new season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles or even for any of the four new Fox Sci-Fi shows (Virtuality, Fringe, Dollhouseand Boldly Going Nowhere).
Best bet is to start out with the first discovered site, Holomove, and then move on to the Unffiction forums for clues you can’t figure out on your own.
Happy hunting down the Rabbit Hole. Damn, that sounded really, really wrong.
Sony Pictures has unveiled the latest viral marketing sensation to support the upcoming film Quarantine, a remake of the classic Spanish thriller. The first video was released this past March on YouTube by the user EricsVideoBlog. It documents what looks to be a hazmat cleanup outside of an inner-city apartment complex, with a standoff occurring inside of the building simultaneously. The YouTube account is filled with all sorts of theories and at least one lead in the ARG - The Last Palm Tree, the blog of retired police officer Mike Davidson, who has decided to investigate what actually happened in the building. The blog is filled with more videos as well as photos and links to other possible ARG sites.
The move itself is due to hit theaters this October. You can get some more insight and clues on the ARG community board Unfiction.
In the meantime here’s the newly released movie trailer, which is very similar to the YouTube video.
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