Another challenge of mapping software is that, on top of the “literal” data like geography, structures, legal and commercial designations that change over time, there are multiple layers of “what people call it” with no single right answer. Especially from a municipal level down: towns, regions, neighborhoods, even…

Kamala the comics character was a fan of all the superheroes, had an early adventure with Wolverine and did Champions with teen Cyclops. So Iman the superfan gets to write Kamala the superfan getting to join the X-Men. I’ve got high hopes. The mutants could use a bit of embiggened sunshine right now.

So the lesson the studios will learn from Barbie is probably “people want brightly colored movies about toys”

So the original Kenner R2-D2 figures for the first three movies accidentally had R-7 heads?

My only complaint is that we’d just gotten a really good, fleshed out Captain Carter in What If...? and now here’s live action Haley Atwell but it’s Captain Carter again just as a shock cameo. Compare that to her appearance in Endgame during the heist where it’s later in her life, Steve is long gone, and she’s…

This is clever but also stress inducing. LED color lights and digital cameras don’t work together well. The pure wavelengths look understated to human eyes but overload the same-wavelength sensors on even an advanced phone camera. Violet tends to be the worst. What looks like a slight purple tinge to the audience…

Apparently the sewing machine had multiple inventors. Some had their work destroyed or withheld their inventions for fear of how many people would be put out of work. Isaac Singer didn’t entirely invent a machine, he was just the first to bring someone else’s design to market and claim a patent, which he was…

That’s really impressive if it’s actually good. Might even get me down to Anaheim, which I’m just now realizing sounds like one of the Nine Realms.

Even with competent tech companies reduced service due to back end changes are no big deal. It says everything about Elon that he needed to make up enemies “data scraping” and “system manipulating” the site.

The Devil’s Own deserves an award for running its trailer before the Special Edition re-release of Star Wars: A New Hope and immediately becoming an audience participation game to loudly cheer Harrison Ford and boo Brad Pitt for not being Harrison Ford.

The utopia deep within the Sarlaac is populated by intelligent hats and/or Sleestaks.

I’m glad they at least addressed the Avengers with the plausible argument that it’s too dangerous to get any of them Skrull replaced. It would still be good to get a sense of where this show is in the timeline, since the Asgardians settle on Earth during the five year Snap. After the Blip they’re a tourist destination…

Talos says they hadn’t found a new planet yet because Skrulls are hated and hunted everywhere.

We already have the Mia Goth trilogy. X, Pearl, and MaXXXine. If they extend beyond that it will at least be something new and unexpected.

Same. To me Quantumania was a relationship comedy (like, you know, the previous two Ant-Mans) set in a trippy dimension. And I enjoyed how they used the rules of the setting so that, say, Scott could create a swarm of himself and solve a problem using actual ant tactics. Or that the setting allowed MODOK’s giant face…

This is a really nice “chronological” recap of Indiana Jones’ on screen career that includes the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Besides the fun of just how many historic figures and events he managed to encounter, it includes all the ways that show set up his future exploits and abilities. Military training as a WW1…

Fortunately Texas governor Abbott has leapt into action banning mandated breaks and access to water for outdoor workers.

The original Star Wars soundtrack also takes top spot for its non-symphonic side trips into interstellar jizz. As Lucas prompted him, aliens interpreting Benny Goodman, with an off kilter assembly of off kilter instruments. The entire track goes through some wonderful permutations and breaks and even has a proper…

The song on its own would be predictable (not a bad thing for musical theater audiences) but it’s not like you can’t find new ways to be shocking with live-staged singing chorus on crucifixes or any variety of Roman-era capital punishment. After all Spamalot didn’t stick to gags from Holy Grail.

Court Martial makes me wonder whose call it was to label the third button on Kirk’s chair “JETTISON POD” like a Batman ‘66 prop. As if he’s jettisoning pods all the time and more often than going to green alert.