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Really, it’s even better than not bad. It’s pretty damn good. Hulu is the NBC/Fox streaming video venture that went public last week (it had been in beta mode for a few months prior). There are several things that make Hulu very cool. First, unlike other network-specific streaming services, this on offers...

Perhaps the reason Iron Man, a movie based on a superhero without the brand name recognition a Super, Bat or Spider-Man, opened to $100+ million this weekend is that he’s a superhero for the gadget generation.

One of the most notable things about the film version of Tony Stark is the way in which he...

“Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly…stupid.” - Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Sparrow...

My friend Leann, a keep-it-real techie, says she will mount a HDTV in her living room the day they come up with a “post-it approach.” No motorized or cantilevered mount installation for her. She wants to peel off a backing, press that 37-inch up on the wall, and be done with it.

Would to God it were...

Sure, I had my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV primed and ready to endure my reviewer’s scalpel, but true be told I haven’t even cracked the game yet. My living room was hijacked this week by friends’ kids eager to play Mario Kart for the Wii. Pimps, drug dealers and street assassins be damned. Who wants...