Four and a half ways to bring back Agent Phil Coulson in S.H.I.E.L.D
The S.H.I.E.L.D TV show is go, with Joss Whedon at the helm and some faimilar Whedon-verse talent behind the scenes. The real buzz around this show however is the "resurrection" of Agent Phil Coulson.
**If you haven't seen Avengers - look away now. Actually, look away forever. Thanks... **
Coulson was killed by Loki on the Helicarrier, an act that forged the alliance between Avengers and "gave them something" (in the words of Nick Fury). Queue an internet meme, delivered as only nerds on the internet can, calling for the return of Coulson or spouting the conspiracy that Coulson isn't as dead as we thought. It is established in the Avengers that Fury "twists the knife" of Coulson's death by convincing Captain America that Coulson's precious Captain America trading cards were in his pocket when he was killed - an emotive moment for Steve Rogers and a reminder for the audience of who and what Nick Fury really is and the lengths that he will go to to win. The prevailing theory online therefore is that Coulson isn't dead at all, just hiding.
Personally I think this is a terrible option. Coulson's death is a pivotal moment in the movie and a ...
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Is your Wordpress Blog a Zombie? How Wordpress is killing other websites and how to stop yours from "turning"
A recent report from security consultancy Incapsula concluded that an DDOS attack launched against a large gaming website used approximately 2,500 Wordpress sites, including gizmodo.it and zendesk.com. The full list of offenders is here
What is most interesting is that these sites hadn't been compromised. Instead, the attack leveraged new default functionality in Wordpress 3.5 to generate a flood of "ping back" requests to the site under attack. Ping backs are des ...
Nook - The Hackable eInk Android tablet that just dropped to Ł30.
Barnes and Noble have dropped the price of its Nook eReader "for a limited time" in the UK.
Now cheaper than a Raspberry Pi, the Nook is not just a solid eReader - it is also eminently hackable. Under the hood the Nook is an eInk Android Tablet, the Barnes and Noble software running on top. In just a few steps, you can turn this Ł30 eReader into a device that can read books from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Google Play, as well as run lightweight Android apps for emai ...
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Amazon Kindle for Writers - April 2013
Keeping tracks of the ups and downs of Amazon and its Kindle ecosystem is something every writer should be doing. Amazon and its Kindle are, in effect, a market in and of itself and if you' ...
From Indie Hit to Hollywood A-List: How Celtx is taking over the film industry
Celtx, the "free as in beer" pre-production scripting tool, is growing rapidly and almost certainly shaking things up at Final Draft headquarters as it makes ...
All your comments are belong to us: Why Google+ Comments in Blogger is bigger than you think.
Google have announced the Blogger now has support for in-line Google+ comments.
If this sounds like no big deal to you, step b ...
Marvel Characters Balls: Swish
Rather pleased that I will now get hits from weird costume-pervs searching for "Marvel Character's Balls" on Google, I humbly present this rather cool video from Blackmeal.
It is a great testament ...
Giant Ass Kicker Robot "Coyote Tango"
I have nothing to add to this poster, I just wanted to put a giant ass-kicking robot on my blog. Enjoy!
...One of our Androids is Missing: How to detect Android x86 with GRUB Bootloader
You may have read my previous post about why your netbook should run Android. If there is one OS that I would put alongside Android on my netbook, it ...
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Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore Trailer (or "How to make an Iron Man Trailer that is brilliant without telling us the whole story).
There have been a lot of Iron Man 3 trailers. Arguably, there have been too many and we can only hope ...
Bubble Version 0.6 Released: Splash Pages A-Go-Go
Peter Rogers pointed out that you can almost make Bubble say "Splash Page" if you don't bother to mark out any panels (with ##) on your page and crack straight on with descriptio ...
All your feeds are belong to us: Feedly announce escape tunnel for Google Reader Users
Google Reader is being taken behind the chemical sheds and shot on July 1st 2013. Its users aren't happy. 100,000 of them have signed a petit ...
Follow me on Facebook if you want to murder pigs
People of Suffolk unite, the vegans are on the march. Or, at least, the vegans are sending rude emails to a school that has had the audacity to suggest that children should know t ...
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