The Avengers teaser trailer that was shown at Comic Con has leaked onto the internet.  You may want to hurry and watch it before Marvel notices and starts cleaning it up.  If you happen to miss it though, you’re not missing much, it’s basically Samuel L. Jackson just talking with the Avengers logo on the screen.  Not nearly as awesome as that Thor footage from last week.

Yes, this is a real book.  The only thing keeping me from actually get it is the very real fear my kids would find it (and they can read it to each other now).

Be sure to hit up the link (in the picture) to read the first few pages!

In 1962, Corning Inc (that 159 year old glass company, I’m sure you’ve heard of them) invented something called Chemcor.  Originally designed to be as strong as steel, it fell short of its design goal and was only 2 to 3 times as strong as normal glass.  Oh, it is also paper thin.  And it’s damage resistance properties are downright otherworldly!

Back in the day, Corning was hoping to use this glass in car windshields but were beaten to the punch by a British company that could make a suitable material for cheaper.  The project fell by the wayside and was never looked at again.  Right up until recently . . .

Asian electronic manufacturers needed some way to protect their nice new TV’s and cell phones and went to Corning.  Corning, in turn, went through their old database and found Chemcor.  Slap the new name Gorilla Glass on it, and you have a winning product!

With a new federal decision that Jailbreaking your Apple device is completely legal, we now have a better way to do it as well!  The fine folks at the iPhone Dev Team have made “Jailbreak Me 2.0 (Star)” which will unlock any and all iOS device with firmware 3.2 or greater.  From there, it’s a hop skip and jump from performing a full sim-unlock and use your device on any carrier.

To unlock your phone, it’s a simple matter of being able to type a web-address and then have all the patience in the world.  Point your Safari browser to http://jailbreakme.com and follow the one single instruction.  Yes.  That’s it.  At least, that’s what people are telling me, because their servers are now so swamped with incoming requests that my phone can’t even see the site anymore!

UPDATE:  After hitting retry for quite a many times, I finally found a way to get my systems to update.

UPDATE:  Marvel got to our source too.  It took them longer, but they got there.

Below is the leaked footage from Comic Con of the upcoming Thor movie.  I’m not a big fan of Thor but I was planning on seeing the film when it’s released next summer.  After seeing the footage though, I don’t know that I can wait that long.  Hurry and watch before it gets taken down.

Marvel got to all the uploads pretty fast. This is courtesy of io9.

Need proof?  It’ll only cost you $33.00!

I guess this could be considered NSFW, but just barely.  It’s made of durable premium clear vinyl which is good quality for a sticker.  Available from Etsy seller michaelxuereb.

I’d vote for him!

Unfortunately, I was not able to attend San Diego Comic Con this year.  Or any previous year for that matter.  This is something that I hope to remedy sometime in the future but by then I’ll probably be in my forties and be called by guys in the comic book store Captain Sweatpants.  Or Captain Sweat Stains… I’m not sure which…

Anyways, being the geek that I am, I have been valiantly trying to catch up on all of the news that has been leaking out over the past week.  Last week I started hearing rumblings about Ryan Reynolds reciting the Green Lantern oath for a little kid but I just finally found some footage of it.  If it doesn’t put a smile on your face, then you have a heart of pure darkness.  I can only imagine the joy that this kid must have felt.  Of course, I’m a bit biased since I’m a Green Lantern fan and can’t hardly wait for the movie to come out.

For your enjoyment.

I have three kids at home (two boys and a girl).  Keeping them entertained is always this constant struggle between finding something appropriate for their age and finding something that can be played over and over again without driving the adults insane.  We’ve had a lot of luck with TV series; episodes are shorter so you’re not sitting the kids down for two hours to veg, if you have an entire season stored up then you can watch any number of episodes, and not having to hear the exact same show over and over again saves your mind.

There is an issue where the kids catch on pretty fast that there’s more than one episode they can watch, in which case they then beg to see episode after episode after episode.  However, with proper parenting (it’s called “No”) that’s usually pretty easily avoided.