The Next Crop of Found-Footage Movies That Will Scare You Silly
Now that Paranormal Activity 3 has broken box office records for October, Hollywood is green-lighting any thriller you can shake a handheld camera at.
The “found footage” horror movie is set to have a new lease on life, with a pipeline full of jump scares. Here is the next crop of “found footage” flicks you should get excited about.
In the latest Entertainment Weekly, Paranormal Activity 3 producer Jason Blum lists off a gaggle of his upcoming shaky-cam...
Faster Firefox 8 Hits the Web
Mozilla has released Firefox 8. The latest version of the popular open source browser is faster than its predecessors and offers some new tab loading options to speed up restarts, better control over add-ons and more CSS 3 support for web developers.
If you want to take the latest Firefox for a spin, head on over to the downloads page. If you’re already using Firefox you’ll automatically be updated.
It’s no secret that recent Firefox releases have lagged behind Google Chrome in the speed department, but Firefox 8 is hoping to change that. Indeed in our speed tests this release was neck and...
Sport Science Looks at the Vertical Leap
How long has it been since I have even said the phrase “ESPN Sport Science“? It seems like it has been a while. (here are some of my previous Sport Science attacks)
Ok, well here is the episode. It looks at the vertical jumping height of Dwight Howard. If you don’t want to watch it, I will summarize.
Here is the play-by-play:
- Shaq can jump super high.
- Dwight Howard can jump super high.
- Let’s see if Howard can break Shaq’s record for vertical “reach”.
- Apparently he can. His vertical reach (how high his hand gets on the backboard) gets up to 12 feet 6 inches. This is a leap of 39 inches.
Really,...