Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show is a big Public Image Limited (PiL)/John Lydon fan (that’s Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols if you didn’t know). He even had John Lydon on the show once. So when the time came to spoof the U.S. Health Care Reform Bill’s Public Option, Jon and his writing staff went for it. They used the logo from Public Image Limited and turned it into “Public Option Limited” on tonight’s show. I’m also a big fan of Public Image Limited (and of John Lydon’s solo stuff & The Sex Pistols) so I spotted this right away.
Public Image Limited Logo Spoofed on Daily Show 10/28/2009
iDon’t need vague information
iDon’t need scare tactics
iDon’t need to imitate
iDon’t need a droid…unless it’s R2D2
iDon’t have a problem with iTunes
iDon’t buy brands who bash other brands
I love zombie movies. I also love Marina Orlova, known to millions of fans around the world as a sexy master of language from HotForWords.com. She has two degrees in philology (the study of linguistics and origins of words), her own book out, and now a iPhone app featuring her! This app is Attack of Zombie Bikini Babes from Outer Space from Smort (the “evil twin” of Smule, who brought you Sonic Light, Sonic Boom, Ocarina, Leaf Trombone and others).
There is a lite version for free and the full version of the game for $0.99. I opted for the full version since I trusted Smort (aka Smule) on the quality of their apps. I played a few times and the game is very fun, but your thumbs will eventually get tired. You might need to play a practice game or two until you figure out how to aim the dual slingshots at the incoming army of Zombie Bikini Babes from Outer Space that look like Marina. Although I do prefer to use guns while fighting zombies, this is what you got to start with since you play as a hillbilly (you’ll see when the game starts up).
You score points for killing the zombies and points to buy more weapons and upgrade them. You can upgrade your dual slingshots to better ones that fire faster. You can also get small, furry animals to slow the zombies down with. And if that doesn’t help, you can throw Molotov cocktails (and dynamite from upgrading) at them too. The blonde zombies walk at you, the red headed ones run at you, and the brunette ones take more hits to go down. Beware the large brunette ones though, they’re even harder to take down!
Of course the game has the spinning globe like Smule’s other apps that shows the scores of other people that are playing the game around the world. A nice touch to the game is the soundtrack and Smort recommends that you have the volume all of the way up. In the globe view you can hear people (pre-recorded from the soundtrack) talking over radios about the alien zombie invasion. While fighting off the zombies, you can hear Marina’s catchphrases in the background. Every third wave (I think) you have an option from the main menu to make the zombies dance. They’ll stop and start dancing to the soundtrack, giving you time to knock them out until they start coming at you again.
OK. Not every app will be free, but they could also be at a discounted price. Still, it’s better than paying full price for an iPhone app if you don’t want to do so. Just keep reading.
I have tried out a few of the apps that let you mark them to watch for when they drop in price like AppSniper and AppMiner, but they only work if you go into them constantly. Don’t pay those types of iPhone apps anymore! I’ve found that waiting for a specific Twitter users to tweet a promo code and then try to race to copy it and paste it into the Redeem box in iTunes is a losing battle. I don’t know how many times I’ve tried to score a promo code that way only to see that the promo code has already been used. ARGH! That is very aggravating! Forget both of those useless and futile ways!
Go to AppShopper.com, register on the site, and start browsing for apps! When you find an app that you want, but don’t want to pay the full price for it, look for the two checkboxes underneath the price of the app; Own It and Want It. Simply put a check in the Want It box. Then just wait for the app developer to lower the price of the app and you’ll get an email in your Inbox saying that the price of the app was lowered. HOW EASY IS THAT? When you do get that email, follow one of the two links in your email (one takes you to the app’s page on AppShopper.com and the other will take you directly to the app’s iTune page), click on Buy Now button, and you’re whisked over to the app’s page in iTunes to actually buy the app (like said previously, the second link will take you directly to the iTune page). Make sure that the app’s price in iTunes shows the change. A few times I’ve caught iTunes still having the full price. Sometimes AppShopper.com isn’t up to date with iTunes. The app developer can make sudden changes or do so by mistake. So be sure to check the price in iTunes before you buy the app!
Also, check the Own It box for apps that you have. You can view all the apps that you own, as long as you check the Own It box, from the orange My Apps tab at the top of the site. You can also click on the purple Wish List tab and browse the list of apps that you’ve marked that you want. If you find an app that you bought that’s on your Wish List, just check the Bought It checkbox and the app is automatically moved to your My Apps list. SO EASY! A good thing to do, if you can, is to visit the site on a regular basis and see all of the apps that are out there. You can browse all of the apps, only the apps that have been updated with a new version, only apps that have price changes, or just the new apps.
I’ve found that AppShopper.com is a great asset to any iPhone app addict! You can even use the site from Mobile Safari on your iPhone! How great is that?
Yes, I love Star Trek, but I also love Star Wars and a new iPhone Star Wars iPhone game is coming to us fans & iPhone/iPod Touch owners. Star Wars: Trench Run. Developed by Infrared5 and distributed by THQ Wireless Inc., you can fly through the trench of the Death Star just like Luke Skywalker from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and get the chance to blow the sucker up. Check here for a video of the game play.
Star Wars: Trench Run will be available at the iTunes store for $4.99. See below for a list of features of the iPhone / iPod Touch version:
Force Power: Slow down time and increase agility using the Force to bring TIE fighters into shooting range, and to dodge obstacles while flying down the trench.
Breathtaking 3D Experience: Incredible 3-D graphics based on the original Star Wars movie.
Amazing Special Effects: Vivid lighting, advanced shaders, explosions and incredible lifelike models.
Authentic Star Wars Music and Sound Effects: Combined with real movie footage for complete immersion into the Star Wars universe.
True-Life Flight: Accelerometer controls with life-like physics.
Addictive Game Play: Ever increasing challenges, and tons of replay value.
Multiple Points of View: Featuring both chase cam and cockpit modes.
Mission Mode: With storyboards, music and dialogue from the original Star Wars movie.
Arcade Modes: For increased re-playability, includes both Trench Run and Dog Fighting modes.
Multiple Difficulty Levels: From Easy to Jedi.
Optimized Gaming Experience: To work on the 3G, with special graphical features for the 3GS, iPod Touch 2nd Gen and future devices.
Leader Boards: Players compete against others across the world for the top spot. Find out who are the true Jedi.
Carl Zimmer (writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist, and the author of six books) had created a group on Flickr for science tattoos a few years back. A few weeks ago I stumbled across this site – The Science Tattoo Emporium, that he has set up under his blog called “The Loom” on DiscoverMagazine.com. It’s a collection of science tattoos. There are some very original ideas for ink in the collection. It made me want to get something scientific to show my love for geology, but I have no idea what. Not sure how well it would fit into my current theme of Japanese tattoos that I’ve already started.
I loved this game from the 1990s! It was on some SEGA system I had access to back then and I fell in love with it after the first time I played it. I eventually found it for the PC and played it like a mad man. Today, Gameloft has released Earthworm Jim for the iPhone. You can find it in the App Store for $4.99. Here’s a quick review of it; once you master the controls on the iPhone/iPod Touch, it’s just like it the old games on the various game consoles & PC versions. If you like Earthworm Jim, GET THIS GAME!
Play as the grooviest earthworm in the galaxy, and explore a crazy universe that offers huge gameplay possibilities:
Run, gun, swing from hooks with your head, launch cows, bungee jump,
rocket through speed levels and more!
Face 12 types of enemies and 9 bosses!
4 different styles of gameplay: Side-scrolling run & gun, space racing,
bungee jumping and underwater levels!
10 original environments divided into 16 levels!
4 levels of difficulty – including the challenging mode of the original game!
The re-mastered cult soundtrack!
iPod library access to play your favorite tracks while playing the game!
Follow Gameloft and the Earthworm Jim game on Twitter and you might be able to score a promo code for it! If I had some promo codes, I’d love to give them out, but alas I do not.
Last week I was on a podcast about the new movie Zombieland. You can listen to the main podcast here from Sci-Fi Party Line, which is all about Zombieland, and then you can listen to the Sci-Fi After Party podcast here where we talked further about other shows like Stargate Universe, Doctor Who, and Fringe. Thanks to Cat and Eric for having me on and I look forward to joining you again!
So Apple gave us a bunch of new hardware today. YES! I’d love the 27-inch iMac, top model of course, but that wouldn’t be feasible at this time. I would love the 3 extra inches that the screen would give me! WOW! Then there’s the new Mac minis, the new Apple Remote, and finally the new Magic Mouse, which comes standard with the new iMacs & with a wireless keyboard. NICE. I was thinking of maybe getting that Magic Mouse. It sure seems to beat the hell out of the Mighty Mouse and it’s sticky scroll ball. That little ball has really pissed me off a few times. I’m going to have to go to my local Apple Store, play with the new Magic Mouse, and see if I like it. If not, then maybe I’ll get a non-Apple mouse.
Back in the summer a PSA came out that made it’s way around the Internet from the Tredegar Comprehensive School and Gwent Police (Gwent is located in southeast Wales, U.K.), which is just a clip from a half hour drama entitled “COW”, that showed you the horrors of what could happen if you’re texting and driving. It was very graphic and I almost vomited from watching it. (Yes, I don’t like real blood & guts. That’s why I’m not a doctor. Zombie movies are different. I KNOW they’re fake and really can’t happen… Or can they?) But anyway, this new video shows you that flashing your tits to a car full of guys isn’t too smart either.
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