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TooManyGames in Wyomissing on September 19th

By Eric Wednesday September 1, 2010

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Photo via Binge Gamer

The Too Many Games convention is almost here, bringing with it some fun competitions, awesome musical guests, and an epic sale of sweet gaming swag. It’s the 10th convention in a row, and it hits Sunday, September 19th, at the Crowne Plaza Reading Hotel in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania.

This year, Too Many Games is sponsored, in part, by NYKO. The 3rd party peripheral manufacturer is hosting a gaming tournament… involving The Conduit. Strange choice for a title, but meh. You kids have fun.

They’ve also got some outstanding musical guests lined up, including Geekadelphia favorites Animal Style and Chipocrite. Other guests include Ro-bear, X-Hunters, and JJ Demon.

For updates on the go, you can follow Too Many Games on Twitter. For more info on the convention, visit Too Many Games’ official website. Happy conning.

Too Many Games
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
www.toomanygames.com

New Episodes of Cinedork: Now We’re On iTunes!

By Dan Wednesday September 1, 2010

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It wouldn’t be a new week without another episode of Cinedork… and now we are on iTunes! You can subscribe here.

In case you didn’t know, at Cinedork we do three weekly podcasts: one for weekly entertainment news, one focusing on DVD releases that came out that week and one focusing on the week’s music offerings as well. Now since we are in the iTunes store, you can easily subscribe and download the podcasts you are interested in for that particular week.

This week for the DVD podcast, since Survival of the Dead just came out, we discuss not only that film, but George Romero in depth as a director as well. For our entertainment-cast, it’s more about Piranha 3D and what that film has to say about us as a generation. We also talk a bit about Miyazaki and his rumored sequel. For this week in music, we are joined by a special guest Rob from Brave New Worlds to reminisce about our favorite tapes from back in the day.

So subscribe here in iTunes and get some dorky goodness!

The Skull-A-Day Blog Features Our Own Mütter Museum

By Dan Tuesday August 31, 2010

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I honestly can’t decide whether this is the creepiest thing ever or quite possibly the coolest. Skull-A-Day a blog that focuses on you guessed it – a skull image a day, posted an image and some videos from Philadelphia’s own Mütter Museum.

The image in question (above) is a skull created from over 375 pieces human brains embedded in clear acrylic, stacked to form an image of a giant skull. The videos on the site discuss and show the process of creating the image with the acrylic-encased brains, or as they jokingly call them Zombie MREs.

Check out the blog here for more videos and pics!

Ugly Betty: Season 4 on DVD [Review]

By M.A. Tuesday August 31, 2010

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One of the perks of the being married to an editor of Geekadelphia, is that he gets all sorts of things sent to him… like screeners. One that made it’s way into our house lately was the fourth and last season of Ugly Betty. I used to watch this series every week, until the change to FIOS rendered the series unable to make it to our DVR. So I was finally able to check it out.

Ugly Betty is a series based on a Columbian telenovela called Yo Soy Betty La Fea. It tells the story of a Betty, a less-than attractive girl (played by the beautiful America Ferrera) that was hired as the assistant of a womanizing editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine called Mode. Being fashion-challenged in the midst of the skinny, pretty people is the classic fish out of water story.

But Ugly Betty was always more than that. As the show developed – so did the relationships and the characters. The season’s 20 episodes are well paced and while there were a couple of story lines that were overtired and repetitive, on the whole it was an enjoyable watch. And the final episode – was the send off that the series deserved.

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