The Expendables has everything I could ever want—hilarious one-liners, over-the-top action scenes, complete disregard for human life, ignorance and simplification of exotic cultures, and unabashed, flaming homoeroticism.

Trends in popular literature come and go all the time, but ever since George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, people have had a fascination with the walking dead that has only grown as time has gone on. The funny thing is now that so much zombie media has been produced over the years many fans become defensive about what view of zombies are the “best.” Is it the slow, shambling, glassy-eyed zombies of early Romero fame, or the new generation of vicious, sprinting, diseased sort-of-undead horrors common to the …

Google recently announced they are dropping support for Google Wave, the much-hyped, email-killing, instant-messaging-replacing, super awesome communication technology that was going to cure cancer and make us communicate better to boot. It’s not surprising that it’s over. It’s a little sad, because there was potential in Wave, but it’s not surprising.
Everyone on the net is trying to explain why Wave didn’t take off. I can’t speak for everyone (just the trees – you can call me the Lorax), but I can tell you why I tried Wave and didn’t like …