Maybe Firecracker George should submit his work for the sequel...

Considering how much backstory has been created and is currently in print, you'd think they would have already made a Warhammer 40,000 movie by now. Better late than never, I guess. From their official website:

Codex Pictures revealed today the director and screenwriter for the forthcoming Warhammer 40,000 movie ULTRAMARINES.

The director is Martyn Pick, whose credits include the 2009 film The Age of Stupid, on which he was animation director; London 2012, the promotional film commissioned by Film London and the London Development Agency which was premiered at the Beijing Olympics; the 2001 US Budweiser NBA commercial; and the celebrated BBC promotional trailers for the Euro 2004 soccer tournament. Martyn was chosen to direct Ultramarines for his renowned and highly distinctive ability to fuse live action and animation and the fluid, rich painterly style of his film-making.

The screenplay has been written by someone who needs no introduction to Warhammer 40,000 fans – best-selling author Dan Abnett. Dan has penned more than 25 books for Games Workshop’s Black Library, with total sales in excess of 1.2 million copies. He also works regularly for 2000 AD, Marvel Comics and DC Comics and has recently seen publication of the first of three novels for HarperCollins' new sci-fi, fantasy and horror imprint, Angry Robot.

ULTRAMARINES, a sci-fi thriller employing CGI and state-of-the-art production techniques, is being produced by Codex Pictures in association with Good Story Productions Ltd. The Canadian co-producer is POP6 Studios.

One step closer to Dejarik holochess...

A group of students at Carnegie Mellon University put together a modernized way of playing Dungeons & Dragons using the Microsoft Surface. Kind of makes you wonder what playing Battletech, Car Wars, or Warhammer 40,000 would have been like on this sort of gaming table. Definitely, would have saved a lot of paper. I'd still miss using my lucky set of dice, though.

Where did the last hour go?

I can't remember if I posted this before, but if you need some procrastination tools, here's a game that's highly addictive.

Or if you like your day job, but are just a wee bit bored on a Friday morning...

I remember a day when my typing skills as a small child were rather impressive and a somewhat unique skill for a 10 year old. Now, I think even babies are typing due mostly to the explosion of computers in the last couple of decades.

TypeRacer is an online game where you race against other players on the Internet with your car going as fast as you can correctly type a movie quote correctly. I managed to get up into the 70's, but was flabbergasted by the fact that I was routinely beat by people running into the the 100's.