Recent survey data commissioned by Microsoft shows that our friends in the Great White Way of Canada enjoy playing with their Wiis while nude.

Awesome. 

The poll of over a thousand respondents aged 18 and up asked where, when and how people played with the incredibly popular console. Top answers: at work, in the bedroom, in public and in the bathroom.

But what we really care about is nudity, right?

Okay, me.

23% of those aged 18-34 played in the nude, while 12% of those 35 to 54 did so. Only 5% of those 54 and over played with nothing between them and their screens. It's mostly guysthat play in the nude too, with 17% admitting to it.

I'm a little disappointed in two things. One, that it's only 23%. I was hoping for at least 30%. I play in nothing but my birthday suit myself, much to Jody's dismay.

(Tann, put some clothes on!! -Jody)

I'm also upset that the article found it "alarming" that one in four young Canadians played in the buff. There's nothing alarming about it. It's far more fun and relaxing.

(Except, Tann, when my Mom is coming over. Like in ten minutes!)

Shut up, strip and bowl, DQM.

(Dude...)

Do it!

(Wow...Never scored that high before.)

Told you.

Sound of the doorbell.

Jody, it's your Mom.

Source: Digital Home Canada: Poll finds number of Canadians playing video games naked

CVG.COM On-Line has some nifty new screenshots and model-builds from the upcoming GEARS OF WAR 2, the sequel to last year's hit alien thrashing video game. What's truly amazing is how well they've captured life and the personalities here at doorQ.com.

This looks like me after a really good weekend: 

This is what Jody looks like all the time:

This is where the doorQ.com offices are located:

And this is what I take hunting for quail:

And now you know all our little doorQ.com secrets.

GEARS OF WAR 2 comes out in the fall. 

From their review: 

Will Smith's powers are even more extraordinary than those of a caped crusader who can leap way beyond the tallest buildings in a single bound. Smith has salvaged many vehicles more threadbare than "Hancock," and though his latest venture is decidedly uneven, he seems poised to score yet another supervictory at the boxoffice. The movie is a good showcase for him -- and for co-stars Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman. Imagine the heights they all could have scaled if the picture had been really good.

It just gets better and better.

Below is a clip from this week's DOCTOR WHO. Note this is this is the episode being shown in England this weekend, not on SciFi. The UK is three weeks ahead of the US, so really don't want to be spoiled, don't play this clip.

But if you don't care, or just love a good bit of menace, I really, really recommend it. 

TWILIGHT is the love story between...wait for it... a vampire and a human.

Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she's ever met. Intelligent and witty, he sees straight into her soul.

Soon, Bella and Edward are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Edward can run faster than a mountain lion, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands - and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. But he doesn't have fangs, and he doesn't drink human blood; Edward and his family are unique among vampires in their lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy.

But what will Edward & Bella do when James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), the Cullens' mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for her?

Here's the trailer: 

Looks interesting, in a "I've seen this story before but let's see what they do with it" kind of way. It's based on a popular series of books, so that could add too it.

Of course, this just speaks to the fact that we need the definitive gay vampire film.

An no, The Lair doesn't count.

Hollywood Reporter hits with this review of WANTED, the new action film starring Angelina Jolie and... gasp... James McAvoy.

It's good to be "Wanted."

The debut American feature by successful Russian director Timur Bekmambetov ("Night Watch" and its record-smashing 2006 sequel, "Day Watch"), this over-the-top, ultraviolent, hyperkinetic action thriller pretty much has it all.....

That would include engagingly offbeat source material in the form of Mark Millar and J.G. Jones' comic book series, a decent adaptation by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (last year's "3:10 to Yuma" remake) and Chris Morgan ("Cellular"), a terrific cast and jaw-dropping stunt work....

James McAvoy, sporting a swell American accent, is certain to build on his big-screen appeal as Wesley Gibson, a put-upon account executive who discovers that his long-absent father belonged to a centuries-old league of supersensory assassins known as the Fraternity.

Gun porn. Be still my heart.

Well, it looks like leather.

Cinema EXPO in Amsterdam poped the new GI JOE poster, with Herr Tatum front and center. Clad in hot, tight-fitting... well, whatever... he's also sporting quite a large... machine gun. 

From the title of the poster, it's pretty obvious what the film is about, what the sequels will be about, and that the motivating factor for the series is the failed romance between Tatum's Duke and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Cobra Commander.

I wish.

Source:  G.I. Joe Will Show the Rise of Cobra - ComingSoon.net

Let's see the extent of your ejdumakation.

This beautiful sunset image...who knows where it was taken? (Hint: There's a hint here if you can find it. Hint. Hint.)

Is it just me or is this like the gayest image ever?

Four ultra-hot grimey men in bad-ass armor, fingering the largest guns you've ever seen. They must spend a lot of time in the shower washing the alien gore from their hair. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of time in the shower. Together.

Um, where's my controller? 

Recently, The Arizona Daily Star asked several "notable" people if there was life on alien planets. One of the folks they consulted was Ken Ham.

Not familar with Ken Ham? He's the kook behind not just the "Answers in Genesis" website, a fundementalist revisionist masturbation website which states that dinosaurs and humans coexisted, but also the multi-million dollar, fundamentalist, revisionist masturbation space The Creation Museum, abusing children daily in Kentucky.

Hamm's response?

The real world is the biblical world-a universe designed by God with the Earth at the spiritual focal point, not an evolutionary universe teeming with life. ... Extraterrestrial life is an evolutionary concept; it does not comport with the biblical teachings of the uniqueness of the Earth and the distinct spiritual position of human beings.

 He furter elaborates on his website:

So, it wouldn't make any sense for there to be intelligent beings like us on other planets-they would be suffering from the effects of sin but can't have salvation, as only descendants of Adam can be saved.

One day the whole universe will be wound up-the judgment by fire-and there will be a New Heavens and Earth. I always say that there can't be intelligent life like us on other planets-the Bible does not say there is or is not animal or plant life on other planets-but I highly suspect not.

Makes perfect sense - if you are a loon.

Oh, and if it doesn't disturb you that Hamm and his flock are mentally ass-raping children with Creation Museum this should give you pause: That last bit by Ham was from a poston his website discussing his recent speaking engagement to 150 of his friends, supporters and like-minded fellows.

At the Pentagon (yes, that one.)

SyFy Portal reports that 1.8 million people showed up to watch the 2008 finale for BSG. This is the best numbers the show has done since the start of the season.

1.2 million of that audience was aged 18-49, the sweetest demo to get to watch your show.

The folks at SciFi Channel must be very, very happy right about now. 

Source: SyFy Portal

Bring your entire life with you, wherever you go.

 It's a big thing in a small wrapper. A lot like James.

I love being crude -- and you guys love me for it. 

h/t: Macworld | Little Big Disk Quadra offers 1TB of portable storage

Aaron Ashmore, the hot twin of X-MEN's Shawn Ashmore, has been cast in THE THAW, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

A killer parasite is unleashed on an arctic expedition, causing all of the hot guys to strip off and run through the snow.

I made some of that up.

h/t: ComingSoon.net

Scientists in Stockholm, Sweeden argue that the brains of gays are structurally different that those of straights.

Their research, involving MRI and PET scans of brain loci that are established either in eutero or in the first years of life have discovered that these sections in gay people resemble those of straight people of the opposite gender.

From the New Scientist article: 

Brain scans have provided the most compelling evidence yet that being gay or straight is a biologically fixed trait. The scans reveal that in gay people, key structures of the brain governing emotion, mood, anxiety and aggressiveness resemble those in straight people of the opposite sex. The differences are likely to have been forged in the womb or in early infancy, says Ivanka Savic, who conducted the study at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

"This is the most robust measure so far of cerebral differences between homosexual and heterosexual subjects," she says.

Previous studies have also shown differences in brain architecture and activity between gay and straight people, but most relied on people's responses to sexuality driven cues that could have been learned, such as rating the attractiveness of male or female faces.

I think the better title for this discovery is "Straight Brains Structured Boringly," but that's just me. 

New Scientist: 'Gay brains structured like those of the opposite sex'   

Three rather random little bits before I'm out for the day.

Both TV GUIDE and COMIC BOOK Resources have interviews with Jane Espenson, writer of last week's BSG "The Hub." Nothing particularly spoilerific in either bit, but she does answer a few questions people had with the episode. 

This is TVGuide.com's interview and this is ComicMix slightly longer Q&A.

Two, if you are a fan of CBS' The Big Bang Theory-- and living with the DQM is exactly like living with Sheldon -- and you've always wanted a great resource for all the fantastic geeky items that people wear on that show -- and, as doorQs, while our fashion sense doesn't so much extend to Prada as to IRON MAN -- Slice of SciFi has done some digging and found some great resources for you. (They didn't find KoZmic Designs which is also a great place for geek and doorQ wearable goodness.)  

And lastly, if you want a visual spoiler for the end of the current DOCTOR WHO season, click here click here.

If you don't, DON'T CLICK THE LINK. 

Okay, I'm off to share my goodness and love with the world. Later doorQs! 

With the upcoming FRIDAY THE 13th movie do out next year, the question on everyones mind is does star Jared Padalecki show any skin? how are they going to reconcile the three various looks and origins of Jason Voorhees, done a bit differently in each of the three original movies? 

IESB.net  spoke with producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form about this issue. Form answered:

"[M]ost people think Jason Voorhees was in the first one and, most of the people we talk to - the younger audience - they think he's in the first one, they think he's wearing a hockey mask and that's kind of how this franchise started. They don't realize that Pamela was basically the whole first one and he didn't show up until the very end of the movie...in the lake for the one shot...and then the second one, of course, he wore the sack. In the third one, finally, you have that great moment where he comes out in the hockey mask. I think we tried to take elements from all three of those movies to create one reboot of Friday the 13th and I think we take the elements where you will see Jason put the hockey mask on for the first time - how and why. And you'll see him actually do it not just come out with it."

Interesting.

Click the link to read more from their interview.

In the new STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED video game arriving this fall on just about every game system, you get to not only play as Darth Vader's secret apprentice, but Darth Vader as well.

And you know what that means kiddies. Force Choke!

Oh to have this power at staff meetings.

To see what I mean, check out the trailer below: 

Source: Denn of Geek: "Force-Choke a Wookie as Darth Vader in ‘Star Wars: The Force Unleashed’

Jump back in time and control an ARMY of Master Chief's.

The upcoming HALO WARS is the latest in the Halo Saga, set 20 years before the events of the games. It's a RTS variant of the game, allowing you to pit armies of Covenant vs. Humans. It's a promising premise, eagerly awaited by many fans of the series (including me) and Halo Wars Addict has scans of July's GamePro feature preview of the game.

Check it out here.

A hot lead, interesting visuals, and an intriguing premise doesn't make up for CHARLIE JADE's lackluster pilot execution. A writing staff change as of episode 8 might though help to invigorate the remaining 12 episodes in this 2005 TV series, newly airing on SciFi.

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I'd been reading about CHARLIE JADE for a while... the DQM follows one of the writers of the shows blog... and I was curious to see how this cross-worlds tale unfolded. Anytime you have a hot, rumpled detective with a five o'clock shadow, a silk tie and loads of otherworldly mystery abounding, count me in.

So how did they do?

My short review: fascinating premise, painfully plodding execution.

My longer review:

Meet Charlie Jade (Jeffrey Pierce), blue-collar dick in a white-collar paradise. Well, paradise is a relative term. His world, the Alphaverse (more about that in a second) is a near future dystopia to our own. Ruled by several competing corporate oligarchies exploiting the last resources on an ecologically devastated Earth, Jade makes his way in what's left of the world, one populated with dark vistas, acid rain, and the ever present monitoring devices, by tracking down missing persons and doing the occasional good deed. He's a white knight in a black kingdom, one he has no chance of ruling.

Or so he thinks.

Charlie's haunted by visions of things no one else sees -- a train that tries to run him over, a girl skipping in a field of broken gas pumps, a woman shot at while setting off a bomb -- but he's learned to live with 'em. He focuses instead on his job and the saucy little number back in his flat, a beautiful photographer he rescued from a life of despair.

One night he meets a woman without a name, without a history, without an implant. A woman who speaks of a club that doesn't exist and a city one size too small. She's from a place called Cape Town and Charlie is a resident of Cape City, the most important place on Earth. When the mysterious woman turns up dead the next morning, Charlie sets off to find out what happened to her, a quest that will take him to a strange research center on the edge of a growing desert, in pursuit of a would-be psychopath from the upper echelons of Alphaverse society.

If that all sounds like a smashing good premise, it's because it is. What I've related is only a part of the set-up too. There are two to three (depending on how you count) whole other casts of characters, occupying two completely different Universes -- the Betaverse and the Gammaverse -- that exist along side our own. Charlie gets thrust into the Betaverse by the end of the pilot -- and the Betaverse is an analogue of our own -- and must then start unraveling mysteries to not only get home, but to save the fate of all existence from doom.

Except...

Friday's pilot is just sooooo lackluster. It's beautifully shot and edited. The acting among the American and Canadian leads is quite good, even when the dialogue they have to say isn't. There just isn't much in the way of pacing in the pilot, no narrative drive, no sense that Charlie's pursuit of who he thinks is the mysterious young woman's killer, is of any more importance than picking up the laundry from QuickiePress around the block.

Digging in to the production history of JADE helps to shed some light on some of the problems. JADE is a 2005 Canadian-South African production, a 20 episode series using the resources of both countries to shoot sci-fi in Capetown. It was a much anticipated series at the syndication market sales event in '05.

Creative differences on the show surfaced early on and the producer / show-runner of series parted ways with the original writing staff after 8 episodes were filmed, bringing in a new team of writers (among them Alex Epstein, whose blog is linked here ) among them.

The new staff apparently brought some much needed life to the series, sorting out a complicated back story and giving direction to the wild premise of the series. As it stands now, the series has outlines written for a second season, but is waiting to see how the show does on SciFi to see if more will be produced. (It may not quite be as simple as that as I'm reading between the lines.)

So is Jade worth your time? Well, I'll be setting my DVR to record future episodes. JADE has the same level of thought to its backstory as BSG or LOST. What it's lacking now is energetic execution. I'm curious to see how things progress and to see what happens on the screen after the new staff takes over writing the show. Given that I regularly have to suffer through DQM's love / hate thing for craptacular movies, we can use a few more legitimately good stuff on the TV.

CHARLIE JADE airs Fridays at 9PM on SciFi 

Comic company Boom Studios (http://www.boom-studios.com) is letting loose eldritch horror in their new comic series NECRONOMICON, based on the works of HP Lovecraft.

In Lovecraft lore, the Necronomicon is an ancient book of eldritch insanity, a testimony by the mad arab Adul Alhazard's experiences with the otherworldly alien beings of The Old Ones. Boom's four-issue comic series uses the Necronomicon as the launching point for an expansive tale.

"The terror of Lovecraft's creations comes from their implications - the idea that man is insignificant and small," said BOOM! Studios Editorr-in-Chief Mark Waid. "These elder gods exist outside our perceptions, and nothing we do matters because we are just a footnote in their texts. I'm excited about NECRONOMICON because William Messner-Loebs understands that tension in Lovecraft's works, and J.K. Woodward's covers and Andrew Richie's art bring that to life."

With some luck, doorQ can get a copy to review -- a copy of the comic book. I have no desire to read the real Necronomicon. (Sure it's fiction. Sure.) 

(Interesting side note, Boom Studios was created by Andrew Cosby, creator of SCIFI's EUREKA TV Series.)

TORCHWOOD is going to be back next year and it is going to star Jack Harkness -- there just won't be as much of him. As you might have heard, TV Guide has confirmed new TORCHWOOD in 2009, but only a 5 episode mini-series, all unfurling over the course of a week.

Plus the show's moving to BBC One, the main network in the UK, which means the series will be more "DOCTOR WHO" like (i.e. less adult.)

Popular consensus around here is that the 2008 Season of TORCHWOOD was a bit lack luster, hit or miss dramatically. 

While the team seemed to pull together more, the stories were, for the most part, way soft. James Marsters added some much needed energy, but the zombification of Owen didn't really play. And Doctor Martha was pretty much a waste.

Fewer episodes means more time to craft the episodes and less of a need for filler. It also means less weeks we can spend discussing the plot permutations and possibilities of the series.

And watching Jack and Ianto snogging.

How do you folks feel about the reduced Season Three? Good idea? Poor? More Jack?

Just Jared has landed some snaps from the filming of the upcoming new season of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES.  

Snaps don't really spoil much, other than showing badass Summer Glau walking butchly down the street  -- and Thomas Dekker and Leana Headly not.

They're umm... skipping.

Caked in blood.

I thought I was the only one who did that.

The former DAWSON'S CREEK star is joining the cast of Patrick Lussier's remake of MY BLOODY VALENTINE, according to Comingsoon.Net.

While bombing at the box office during it's original 1981 run, the film has since gone on to achieve cult film status on DVD. It influenced several popular current filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino. The remake was announced earlier his year.

Smith will be playing the hero, Axle Palmer -- a porn star name if there ever was one -- opposite Jensen Ackles -- also a porn star name -- and Jamie King. The film is set to debut January 23rd of 2009.

Source: Kerr Smith Joins My Bloody Valentine 3-D - ComingSoon.net

This is a must read:

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that’s been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Science needs to be taught to the young and communicated to the mature in a manner that captures this drama. We must embark on a cultural shift that places science in its rightful place alongside music, art and literature as an indispensable part of what makes life worth living.

It’s the birthright of every child, it’s a necessity for every adult, to look out on the world...and see that the wonder of the cosmos transcends everything that divides us.

If reading that essay doesn't leave you inspired, you are more jaded than me.

Source:  "Put a Little Science in Your Life" / NYTimes.com