Even the most doting parent sees their child in a different light come bedtime. Go the Fuck to Sleep is a children's book that "captures the frustration of being in a room with a kid and feeling like you may actually never leave that room again, that you may spend the rest of your life in that dark room, trying to get your ... [Read More]

Have you thanked a programmer? It's Video Game Week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and to celebrate the opening credits have gone 8-bit with a digitized Jimmy running across the screen à la Ninja Gaiden. Jimmy is showing off his video game skills each night with demos of Modern Warfare 3, Gears of War 3, Uncharted 3: ... [Read More]

Keeping track of the weather can seem like a full-time job but Subaru's new marketing campaign suggests "It doesn't matter what the weatherman says if you have a symmetrical all-wheel drive Subaru." The commercials feature bloopers of weatherman Pete Mertz standing in front of the wrong map, wearing green in front of a green ... [Read More]

The Doctor often travels with young women but his latest companion is so young that we may need a sequel to "The Trial of a Time Lord." Spoilers In the mid-season finale "A Good Man Goes to War" the Doctor's future girlfriend (River Song) reveals that she is Amy's baby (Melody Pond). Initially, the Doctor seems ... [Read More]

Paul "OtaKing" Johnson took 2 years to complete a Doctor Who Anime, only to take it down from Youtube a few days later. It appears that it was removed due to contractual obligations. Johnson works for Theta-Sigma (ThetaMation) which has been outsourced by the BBC to animate 2 lost episodes from the Doctor Who serial The ... [Read More]

Bruce Wayne became Batman after his parents were gunned down in front of him but that all changes in the crossover event Flashpoint. The Reverse-Flash travels back in time and alters history so that Bruce was killed instead of his parents. Now Thomas Wayne dons the cowl in Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of ... [Read More]

In China, chain gangs are going high-tech. Liu Dali alleges that he and 300 other prisoners at Jixi labor camp in Heilongjiang province were forced to play online games in 12-hour shifts. They collected virtual money to trade with other players for real money, an illegal practice known as gold farming. The Prison reportedly ... [Read More]