Will Artie Lange ever return to The Howard Stern Show? It seems less and less likely that Howard Stern’s comedian sidekick will ever return to the Sirius/XM satellite radio broadcast, which airs Monday through Thursday mornings and is available to over 20 million satellite radio subscribers. Lange, who has a long history of drinking, drug [...]

If you haven’t seen Avatar, but have been tracking its coverage over the past year or so, you already know all you need to know about the film’s success. Actually seeing it is, at best, superfluous to understanding why this one never had any chance but doing anything but packin’ em in and stuffing ‘em with popcorn and soda.

I’m guessing even if you haven’t seen the childhood-shattering Star Wars prequels, you know enough to not be pleased by them. Whether he made them for his children, for himself or for his greed, George Lucas disappointed generations of moviegoers with his second Star Wars Trilogy. When the most beloved franchise in film was revisited decades after its inception, it was just missing that… something.

Tonight, at midnight (technically tomorrow, I know, but who’s counting) you have the opportunity to experience one of the rarest and most special events in all of geekdom. Like an eclipse, the timing of this event is based on celestial movements, esoteric calculation and knowledge, making its coming unpredictable but all the more satisfying for the accompanying surprise.

So did you guys hear about that kid and the helium balloon, but he wasn’t really in the balloon at all, and he was hiding the whole time? And it was maybe really just a publicity stunt by his somewhat off kilter family? Oh, you did? Really? Well it turns out he wasn’t just the embodiment of an anticlimax, he was also kind of a ripoff as well. Here are some people who really did some far-out things with balloons:

You may already know that Stargate Universe is coming to the SyFy network — and it’s promising to bring back the starships, bigtime. Darker, edgier, bloodier – SyFy is clearly applying the lessons of Battlestar to the Stargate formula. Just in time.

The “Horrible Emmys” puns will be beaten to death before the night is through, but even before the broadcast begins tonight on CBS it’s a pretty good bet what the high point of this weekend’s obligatory awards show will be.  Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello breathlessly reported on EW.com that “Sources confirm…exclusively that host Neil [...]

If you are already an Always Sunny fan, as it is known to the converted, you know its gonna be good. If not, try to imagine the gang from Seinfeld, liquored and drugged up, arguing loudly and backstabbing each other while concocting elaborate schemes to outsmart the world around them. And failing. Inevitably failing. And Danny DeVito is there too. Wearing Coke-bottle glasses with hair disheveled, and usually waving a gun.

While the coverage so far of Patrick Swayze’s battle with and eventual defeat by pancreatic cancer has focused primarily on dancing in the Catskills and supernatural pottery, I’m feeling the passing of the other Swayze: the one who kicked a lot of ass.

Last night, something unexpected happened: MMS started working on my iPhone — two weeks ahead of AT&T’s announced release date for the feature. The long-awaited feature — available for years on lower-end phones — was made possible by Apple with the release of iPhone OS 3.0. And now it’s finally here.

If you haven’t had your media overdose on augmented reality yet, or, even better, tried it, you soon will – and with good reason. Augmented reality, AR to its close friends and acquaintances, is here.  On my phone.  In my hand.  Now. Long a staple of sci-fi and speculation, real, effective and useful AR for [...]

Like vampire or zombie bites, geekdom is infectious. But this year it really seems like something has changed. Everyone seems to be talking about Comic-Con. With an entertainment industry that is interested in sequels, franchises and the already-proven value of any new investment in an entertainment property, Comic-Con has become the center of both the entertainment-industrial complex as well as the countless fan-universes that each franchise has created.

Michael Jackson’s death may be infinitely more interesting to the average person these days than manned spaceflight, but his signature move was named after something first done by Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong 40 years ago today.