heroes
Random Stuff
Giant Palm Pre Doesn’t Hold Secret To Making Heroes Not Suck
1:40AM Matt Buchanan | Unfortunately, the number this giant Palm Pre tells you to dial in to Heroes isn’t real, meaning you can’t call up and explain how badly Heroes sucks and that Zachary Quinto deserves better. Also, Hiro should die. [NBC via Engadget]
Gadgets
Surprise: Hayden Panettiere Knows How to Read
2:00PM Jason Chen | Also, that’s a Kindle DX she has in her hand, not a Kindle 2. Everyone else on the Heroes set needs to stand on apple boxes to hide the fact that she’s six-foot seven. More »
Online
Montreal Student Thwarts UK School Arsonist On Messageboard
9:40AM Sean Fallon | Kudos to J.P. Neufeld, a 21-year old student at Montreal’s Concordia University for alerting authorities about a post on the newgrounds forum left by a student that claimed he would burn down his school. More »
Random Stuff
Jet Pack Guy Crosses English Channel
1:00AM Mark Wilson | I don’t expect you mere wingless mortals to truly appreciate the accomplishment of a pilot who just crossed the 35km English Channel with a jetpack—that’d be like someone who can’t read claiming to love the study of Cuneiform—but from one rocket man to another, I salute you, Yves Rossy. More »
Entertainment
Netflix Streaming Heroes Season 3 the Day After New Episodes Air
3:33AM Adam Frucci | Yesterday, I told you about Netflix inking deals with CBS and Disney to bring shows to Netflix as streaming content the day after they air. Now, will you look at this? The new season of NBC’s Heroes is available to stream already, with every new episode arriving the day after it airs. You can’t stop progress, people. Now boost the quality and bring more shows, please. How about 30 Rock and The Office, to start? [Netflix] More »
Entertainment
George Takei’s Heroes Power Tells Him to Buy Apple Stock
9:20AM Matt Buchanan | Heroes Season 2 was mostly garbage. So I was kind of glad the writer’s strike gave them the chance to reboot and blow past the rest of the season, thereby preserving my final, dangly shreds of interest (though I worry about this season’s rumoured multi-verse). Anyways! One deleted scene reveals Hiro’s dad’s (George Takei) power: More »
Toys
Guest Review: Millennium Falcon Legacy Edition by Heroes Producer Jesse Alexander
4:24AM Brian Lam | The only thing cooler than a review of the new Millennium Falcon toy? A review of the Millennium Falcon toy by geek storyteller Jesse Alexander, who has worked on Giz favourites like Heroes, Alias and Lost. P.S. I think that’s an Emmy on his desk. More of Jesse’s impressions, below: More »
Computers
OLPC Ad by Heroes’ Masi Oka Has Us Convinced
4:00AM Jason Chen | We might have been a bit harsh on Masi Oka and his OLPC ambassadorship when it was first announced, but this ad of his seems pretty solid. He’s pimping the OLPC Give One Get One program, which lets you buy two laptops (one for yourself, one for some kid you don’t know) for $US399. Seems like the OLPC team made a good pick in him—he’s sincere and nerdy enough that you’d actually believe he cares about laptops for kids. More »
Online
NBC Hooks Up With Netflix to Deliver More TV on Your PC
7:45AM Matt Buchanan | NBC has become quite the digital distribution whore, like they broke up with their longtime lover and are slutting it up to make them jealous or something. Their latest partner is Netflix.com, where subscribers can watch Heroes eps the day after they air—the release curiously avoids the word “stream”—as well as past eps of 30 Rock, The Office and others. Okay, this might’ve been cool last year, or even a couple months ago, but nothing so far indicates how the Netflix deal is at all different from what you get on Hulu or NBC.com or NBC Direct, though the guess is that Netflixsters might be spared annoying ads. More »
Computers
