Will Michael Bay Direct the 4th Transformers Movie? We Hope Not

Will Michael Bay Direct the 4th Transformers Movie? We Hope Not

Feb 14, 2012 | Forbes

Michael Bay and Bumblebee Paramount Pictures has planned a fourth Transformers movie for a release date of Summer 2014. If Paramount has its way, director Michael Bay will return with his particular brand of explosive magic. But producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is...

Alan Moore Is Satisfied with His Role in the Rise of Anonymous

Feb 11, 2012 | Forbes

V for Vendetta image via Warner Bros. When creative genius Alan Moore wrote V for Vendetta in 1982, he couldn’t have foreseen the rise of Anonymous, the online group of hacktivists who took up his protagonist’s facemask as their public identity. But Moore (who also...
7 Secrets of San Diego Comic-Con’s Success

7 Secrets of San Diego Comic-Con’s Success

Feb 10, 2012 | Forbes

San Diego Comic-Con With 130,000 attendees in 2011, San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) is currently one of the United States’ largest conventions, one that boosted San Diego’s economy by $193 million. So how did this tiny gathering grow into what some consider...
The Computer That Helped Defeat the Nazis Needs Your Aid

The Computer That Helped Defeat the Nazis Needs Your Aid

Feb 9, 2012 | Forbes

Colossus image via Wikipedia During World War II, the Nazis used complex codes to obfuscate commands, and cracking those codes was one of the keys to the Allies’ success. This codebreaking was accomplished in part by Colossus, the world’s first digital, programmable...

What a 165-Million-Year-Old Jurassic Cricket Sounded Like

Feb 9, 2012 | Forbes

Crickets chirp to attract mates and warn off the competition, and crickets 165 million years ago chirped (technically, “stridulated”) for the same reasons. But Jurassic-age crickets, Archaboilus musicus, were Jurassic shaped, with different forewings—which crickets...