Archive for March, 2007

Hmm…

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

“When he told me about this character who could lift up a car using his ‘magnetic power,’ I said, ‘Uh…that’s Magneto.’ And Tim’s response was, ‘Is that a person or a power?’ And he immediately dropped that concept for something even cooler.” Jeph Loeb on ‘Heroes’ executive producer Tim Kring’s initial pitch for the pilot, […]

RedBerry

Monday, March 12th, 2007

“Canada’s foreign affairs minister says he wants to crack down on Chinese spies who are stealing industrial and high-technology secrets at a tremendous cost to the economy… The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has been investigating economic espionage involving China… Foreign students and scientists, business delegations and Chinese immigrants are among those used as informants, says […]

A princess wedding

Monday, March 5th, 2007

“Disney recently announced a new line of wedding gowns inspired by Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella that sell for as much $2,900.” Laura M. Holson, The New York Times

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Gaming’s Dirty Little Secret

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

“We all know that Square Enix makes the Final Fantasy games or that Capcom makes the Resident Evil games, right? Well, not exactly. One game development studio — one of the biggest in the world, actually — has secretly been behind a lot of the games you’ve played. And you’ve likely never even heard of […]