The Bin – 3/26/10

The Bin – 3/26/10

Mar 26

God, here we are again. Every week we gather up the leftover grease from what our brains have been cooking and we use it to create something new, something special, something that smells only as stale as your dreams. We call it the Bin.

Stuff We Like This Week

Matt: I have a feeling I’ll have more to say on this soon but we canceled our cable last weekend and are living solely on the kindness of DVD and the internet to get our televised entertainment. It has become quickly clear that there’s but one home for the true TV vagabond, and that’s Boxee, free software that organizes both online and locally-stored content for your computer…and for your teevee, if it’s hooked up to your computer.

We’ve now got Boxee up on a laptop, the laptop jammed into an S-video/audio input on an old settop DVD recorder, and thus are watching the latest and greatest content on our eight-year-old CRT television. It’s sweet. PLUS there’s a free remote app for Boxee for the iPhone, which connects to your wifi network and finds Boxee running on your computer, so I can actually pretend I’m channel-surfing, except I’m watching old He-Man episodes and YouTube videos. The future!

Sarah: Whilst in New Zealand, I became completely fascinated by all the different book covers. I mean, I know that other countries have other editions, but it’s sort of weird/cool/mind-boggling to step into an international Borders and discover a slew of familiar titles with different faces. (And yes, I spent part of my vacation going to bookstores. That’s just who I am, people.) For instance, these alterna-versions of Graceling and Hunger Games have actual girls on the covers instead of the US versions’ more mysterious symbols and swords. The tomes of Laurell K. Hamilton have a very distinct look that I found pretty dang nifty — and most preferable to the “naked limbs in the midst of a possible orgy” versions we get here. And this pleasing Graveyard Book illustration is positively comic shop-esque! All in all, it made me want to take an whirlwind, worldwide tour wherein I do nothing but compare the different book covers. This is an actual thing I would do.

Jeff: The Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World trailer has blown my mind. I watched it over a half dozen times yesterday and it just looks perfect.

I’m fighting a nasty cold right now, so I haven’t liked much this week, but I will say that New Avengers #63 is probably one of the top five single issues of that series.  It focuses on the Cage/Jessica Jones and Clint Barton/Bobbi Morse relationships.  Not only are these two of my favorite comic book couples, but Cage and Jessica are always and have always been at the heart of the New Avengers, both as a book and as a team.  Not quite as amazing as the Cage-centric Civil War issue of the book, but damn close.

Should I be healed by tomorrow, I will be hitting up the Comic Geek Speak Super Show. Maybe I will make a snarky comment about a critic on Twitter and cause a tiny firestorm of controversy. Probably not.

Link Stew

Particle Fiction is a new monthly webcomic from David Wynne that’s pretty boss. Issue 1 boasts a brutal little 16-pager about a killer for hire taking down a crooked cop. Well worth a read.

Congrats to the 4thLetter! gang and Chad Nevett on their half-decade blogiversaries.

GeekSix is rapidly becoming a favorite waystation on the Internet Interstate of Love. They boast a personal approach to geek blogging that’s always a fun read. Here Christy reports on her trip to Joshua Tree to see some stars. Watch out for a cameo by our favorite geeky romcom novel!

He’s a little hard on Monopoly but Dave Lartigue’s Analog Gaming column over at The Bureau Chiefs has been fun so far. This is a great list of non-Parker Brothers games to liven up your next game night. It will influence our upcoming purchases.

This is actually from last week, but check out how cool these Fantastic Fangirls costume redesigns are.

Etc.

(via Comics Alliance)