ABOUT CLICKED

The modern news consumer ignores Weblogs and online citizen journalism at his own peril. But not everyone has the time to keep track of what's going on the Web. With this blog we hope to track the highlights of what's being discussed online so when news breaks from the Web, we're ready.

Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

Send a message to Will at spotter@msnbc.com



Did you see this?

Posted: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:00 PM by Will Femia

(This post is mostly an excuse to share the new Batman trailer but I'm adding some of the other mostly-visual items in my notes.  More substantial items will come later.)

The new Batman trailer is here. No one mentioned he'd be driving a sick motorcycle. This looks awesome.

Round 3 in that Crestock photoshop competition is up.

This old post about a beautifully designed bridge/bar in Austria led me to do a lot of scrolling and clicking through the Pompomist's look at architecture and design.

Santa arrested by Imperial Stormtroopers - Gizmodo does a good job with this satire report but the photo really makes me think the costume shop ran out of cool stormtrooper costumes for the convention. You're out of stormtroopers? What do you have left in stock?

I've seen some schools have something called "the tableau club" in which, I guess, students arrange themselves to depict scenes. This group of friends in Russia are drawing a lot of online attention for doing something similar.

My friend Matt travels a lot so he's looking into purchasing a Stow Away Guitar. Nearly as cool as the Gibson robot guitar we saw recently.

Competitive Knitters Battle To The Death In "Sock Wars"

The Simpsons folks have given Homer the photo-a-day treatment in parody of Noah Kalina's original. Disclosure/bragging/name drop: I have some affiliation with Kalina and met him socially last week. By virtue of my job I've met a lot of famous people but there's a special kind of vicarious glee in seeing someone you know Simpsonized.

MAIN PAGE

Email this EMAIL THIS

Comments

The new Batman motorcycle is called the "Batpod".
I had serious reservations about the Joker being re-introduced and with Heath Ledger playing the role.  Prior to the above trailer being released there was a shorter, voice over disintegrating Batman logo, trailer where Heath had a few lines as the Joker.  After hearing those couple of lines I knew he could pull it off.  Seeing the trailer above confirms it.  This looks to be the best Batman yet.  I have to say though, the Batpod looks a bit flimsy.  I don't know why they feel that have to introduce a new vehicle in each movie, especially since they only showed the Batmobile (Tumbler) twice in the last one.
The Simpsons video is gone. Oh well.
Ha, each of the "discovered lovers" in the Russian photo site is wearing red underwear.  That wasn't a specific requirement of that shot...maybe they only sell patriotic underwear in Russia?
well Homer didn't last long . . .

and did i miss something in the instructions or does everyone in Russia wear red underwear, or is that code for a philanderer?
the homer picture-a-day link is dead.  You can search and still find it though.


SEND A COMMENT

PLEASE READ: All comments must be approved before appearing in the thread; time and space constraints prevent all comments from appearing. We will only approve comments that are directly related to the blog, use appropriate language and are not attacking the comments of others.

Message (please, no HTML tags. Web addresses will be hyperlinked):

TRACKBACKS

Trackbacks are links to weblogs that reference this post. Like comments, trackbacks do not appear until approved by us. The trackback URL for this post is: http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/trackback.aspx?PostID=523462