"Days of Future Past:" the next X-Men movie?

The X-Men movie series that, alongside the first live-action Spiderman franchise, pretty much built the Marvel comic-movie department, is getting a bit of new light that may just call upon the X-Men to come together again. How do we know that there are plans for another X-Men movie?

It is all speculation currently, but Blastr reported that 20th Century Fox filed a title for a future project with the MPAA under the name Days of Future Past. If anyone remembers this particular comic story arc, where the future and the present of the comic book worlds collide, then you know that this is bound to be awesome.

"The two-issue arc delved into a dark potential future, where mutants are kept locked up in internment camps. Future Kitty Pryde sends her mind back to present-day Kitty Pryde, and the X-Men jump in to help prevent the anti-mutant future." ~from Blastr

Reebok makes awesome Marvel themed shoes

Marvel and Reebok come together to make a series of shoes designed for those big comic book lovers out there, with themes for X-Men and Avengers to Spiderman!

As of late, Marvel has been releasing a great deal of superhero movies to counter their chief opponent, DC Comics, in the cinema industry. Marvel has seen incredible success, culminating in the big tie-in movie The Avengers, featuring heroes from The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 1 and 2, Captain America, and Thor.

It comes as no surprise, then, that there would be a considerate amount of merchandise following this highly successful movie. Would you have really have expected it to be in the shoe industry, though? Though I do not expect many of the older consumers to be interested, but younger student types from middle school straight up through college and university may find this to their particular interest.

BBC uses incorrect logo from "Halo" for UN Security Council

Looks like BBC made a bit of a gaming goof on international television during one of their segments involving the United Nations Security Council and Syria. Though even the hardest of gamers might have glazed over the error while it was happening, once it is pointed out there is no doubt -- the respectable BBC misused the logo of a fictional organization from the Halo games in place of the correct one created by the UN Security Council.

One might be able to understand the error. After all, the two organizations do share the same acronym: UNSC. A cursory search for "UNSC" on Google image search shows that it's one of the top results. However, taking a look at the image context and doing a bit of research beforehand should have solved this problem.

I bet some intern somewhere is cursing himself right now.

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Day One

So my new blog, Nerdtopia, now exists, and as day one begins I wonder how to start. Though I have blogged before, this part always gets me. I suppose the best way to start is with some brief personal introduction, and then on to the goals of the blog.

I am a college student in California, USA. I like nerdy stuff (as I am sure you can clearly see), and I love the internet. I figured what better way to combine the two than to blog about it, right? Hopefully it goes half as well as I would like.

My goals for the blog include having loyal readers who enjoy the content I write about frequently, as well as injecting new traffic into the site to keep it running and interesting. I will take from a variety of sources and write about a variety of things, from my education and university transfer to comic books to TV shows.

A fairly typical nerd agenda.