Quoted: Disney is revving up to remake one of its most expensive science-fiction endeavors, The Black Hole. The minds behind Tron Legacy are involved, but can they duplicate the PG-rated terror of the original?

Quoted: Called Cliqset FeedProxy, the service consumes user activity feeds from more than 70 online services like Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, Last.fm, Yelp and LibraryThing and then produces an outbound feed that's compliant with the ActivityStreams standard format.

Damn hippies.

Quoted: Staffers for Mike McGinn, Seattle's mayor-elect, have asked the city's technology department to explore the possibility of switching the mayor's office from Windows PCs to Macs to let them stick with the technology they've been using, according to a post by Eli Sanders of the Stranger.

Quoted: The Fab Four did not set the video game world on fire with the launch of The Beatles Rock Band. The game was one of the most overhyped in game history, with a buildup that was similar to last year’s Spore, which sold millions of units but was still a disappointment.

Quoted: There are two key points about Wolfram Alpha’s iPhone app: 1) It is pretty cool, and very nicely done. 2) They’re insane for trying to sell it for $50.

Quoted: U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu publicly complimented Apple, PG&E and the other companies that have recently resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to greenhouse gas restrictions.

Check out the Department of Justice's profile on MySpace.

This is awesome.

Quoted: Translations for Facebook Connect is available as a free tool for developers worldwide to simplify the process of translating a website, IFrame or FBML-based application into any of the languages Facebook currently supports.

Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies

Quoted: Mr. Sherlock Holmes ... finds his skills tested to their limit as he and his erstwhile comrade Dr. John Watson are confronted with the most extraordinary case of their career – the dead are returning to life!  Can a plague of Biblical proportions be far behind for Victorian London? And who – or what – is behind the resurrection of these ravenous revenants?