Based on last night’s episode of Heroes, it’s clear the show’s writers want to turn Sylar into a good guy. This makes sense logistically, as Sylar is now way too powerful to be a villain, and frankly has been from the moment he survived the end of season one. Recall, Sylar has Ted’s nuclear powers, [...]
You know that scene in Jedi where Luke is watching his friends die and is being taunted by the Emperor, and the Emperor is totally getting off on how pissed Luke is getting? Yeah, I’m pretty sure Tim Kring is feeding off my hate. That’s the only way I can explain what the Hell it [...]
Speed Racer is the most confusing movie I’ve seen in a long while. I can’t really decide if I love it or hate it, respect it or revile it, or even if it’s supposed to be a kid’s movie. It’s really a baffling thing.
— Speed Racer VS. Rex Racer. Even though Rex died five years [...]
Next Monday Heroes returns for its third season. Now, I was somewhat critical of Heroes season one, and the second season of the show was absolute garbage, but I have hope that with this new “Villains” theme Heroes can, you know, not suck so hard.
It is from that place of hope and wonder that I [...]
Scrippets is a text-to-HTML converter for screenplays developed by screenwriter John August. It was modeled after John Gruber’s delightful Markdown format, which allows for easy text-to-HTML conversion for blogs and such, only much cooler. Let me explain…
The Problem
The thing you’ll first notice about a screenplay is that it comes in a very specific format. The [...]
OK, this is hilarious. Have the volume on for this.
PS: Kung Lao is a dick.
Great White Snark has posted “The Best Geek TV Shows of this Generation”. It’s a very well thought out list, and I think he did a pretty nice job of ranking the shows. That is to say, I agree pretty much with how the ranking falls, with the exception of the show that comes in [...]
Ever since the climactic final battle in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom I’ve been fascinated by bridges. Also, I’m a sucker for gorgeous architecture. So this post is basically a perfect storm of awesomeness.
Wired has a very useful and most excellent chart. It’s really no contest — WiFi iTunes is where it’s at, yo!
As reported by the Associated Press:
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Police were called to break up a weekend fight among a rowdy group of teenage girls at the family-themed pizza restaurant, Chuck E. Cheese.
The more than a dozen girls, between 13 and 16 years old, went berserk in the restaurant’s lobby Saturday night, police said.
Wait… what?
The [...]
Jancee Dunn has posted images from a 1975 J.C. Penney’s catalog which are totally freaking awesome.
She has a follow up post with more pictures here.
Enjoy!
So the big news yesterday — aside from all the happenings at the United Nations — was the Amazon’s release of a digital download section of their store. The big difference between their not-iTunes music store and every other not-iTunes music store is that Amazon is offering all their songs in DRM ((Digital Rights Management.))-free [...]
The New York Times, in an article titled, “Outsourcing Works, So India Is Exporting Jobs” –
MYSORE, India — Thousands of Indians report to Infosys Technologies’ campus here to learn the finer points of programming. Lately, though, packs of foreigners have been roaming the manicured lawns, too.
Many of them are recent American college graduates, and some [...]
I didn’t think much of it when I saw the report yesterday on Yahoo! News, but now that I see The New York Times is reporting it I think this story is a lot more believable.
It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger [...]
Long story short: Heroes got off to a laughably pathetic start. Granted, last season the show hit it’s high point about half way through (”Company Man”, “Five Years Gone”, “Parasite” = excellent television), but it’s not looking good. Here’s why…
1. They’re already repeating powers
What the hell?! It’s the first episode of the second season and [...]
Mark Raby reporting for TG Daily, “Microsoft quietly unveils Vista-to-XP downgrade”
The new policy dates back to June, when Microsoft caved in to allow the manufacturers to include a special XP downgrade CD with systems that come pre-loaded with one of the two high-end Vista packages.
Translation: Vista is a piece of shit.
Thanks to Jake, the [...]
The freest women in the world are the women of Iran.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to the National Press Club.
This guy needs his own HBO comedy special.
In “honor” of what seems to be all-day coverage of Ahmadinejad on C-SPAN2, I give you this “get your war on” comic.
Incidentally, I made the same joke, only mine isn’t nearly [...]
As many of you know, when I’m not spending time listening to Enya and Kenny Loggins I’m grooving to some mad hip-hop beats, and no one does mad hip-hop beats like Timbaland. I especially like his new song, “The Way I Are.”
While an entire essay could be written on the horribly poor grammar of the [...]
The 10 Commandments as a teen comedy? I’m sooooooo there.
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Competitive eating is a real sport. Unlike golf.
Thanks Jake.
If you use your iPhone to call your aunt on her birthday and notice there’s absolutely no sound coming from the receiver such that you think the call isn’t going through but then decide to hit speakerphone and realize the phone is going through and it’s just your receiver and then you spend the next [...]
Don Knuth, inventor of the TeX typesetting system, has a collection of diamond road sign pictures on his website. These are apparently real signs, though some are so bizarre that I find it hard to believe they are. Knuth provides geo-locating information as well, so one could double check, if so inclined.
Here’s a sample:
Don [...]
I just read “CMU professor gives his last lesson on life” from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
“If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you,” said Dr. Pausch, a 46-year-old computer science professor who has incurable pancreatic cancer.
It’s not that he’s in denial about the fact that he only has [...]
Adult Swim has a Flash game on their site called Bible Fight, which pits biblical characters against each other in a “Street Fighter”-style 2D fighting game.
This reminds me of that “South Park” episode. Only this version of Jesus is totally freakin’ awesome. Also, Satan plays cheap.
The game features Eve, Noah, Moses, Jesus, Mary, and Satan, [...]
I absolutely love Darren Aronofsky’s film The Fountain, and it seems he’s just released DVD audio commentary to the film.
On the one hand, I’d love to watch the film again with the commentary to hear his thoughts and insights in what he did and what he was trying to accomplish, and on the other hand, [...]
Alan Greenspan on the Presidential Election:
Newsweek: Who would you like to win next year?
Greenspan: Is one of the choices leaving the office open?
From Newsweek.
This was originally noticed and posted by Henry Neufeld of Threads from Henry’s Web, which was recommended by Christopher of Northstate Science. I generally don’t do straight reposting like this, but [...]
A week from today the show Heroes has its second-season premiere on NBC. I’ve been critical of the first season of Heroes in the past, but I still have hope for the show. I think it’s a great concept that, if used effectively, could make for a really awesome season of television. As such, I’ve [...]
I think most great comedy comes from three places:
The purposeful insertion of the absurd where the sensible is expected.
Making observations about the world that are not immediately obvious.
Twisting around something that’s not innately humorous such that it becomes humorous.
The first one is pretty easy to find. Think of “The Simpsons” or most slapstick comedy.
The second [...]
From RottenTomatoes.com:
“Written as well as directed by Hyung-rae Shim, which apparently means Uwe Boll in Korean, [it's] so campily awful that it’s Mystery Science Theater-ready.”
– Frank Swietek,
ONE GUY’S OPINION
In case you’ve forgotten who Uwe Boll is, he’s the brilliant filmmaker that made the spectacularly awesome movie Alone in the Dark.
“This one’s for connoisseurs of the [...]
When Apple announced the iPhone a tiny question popped up in the back of my equally tiny mind: how long would it take before Apple started screwing its customers like all the other companies in the cell phone racket? Answer: two months.
John Gruber brutally analyzes the issue of how Apple is handling ringtones in a [...]
Great movie, great soundtrack, great performances, and great script — now available in PDF format.
Jane Espenson, former staff writer for the spectacular Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has been forced to comment on the media coverage of the MTV Video Music Awards.
All right. I wasn’t going to do this, but I have to weigh in on the Britney Spears thing. Namely, I’m very upset about the way the media has [...]
Seriously, if you aren’t reading Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal you are missing out, big time.
I can’t not laugh.
Ben Terrett has posted a picture of the most awesome birthday card. Click the image on his site to get a full sized view of the card, read the copy, and enjoy.
I couldn’t bring myself to repeat the grammatical mistake in the title’s card in the title of this post. It is, however, probably my [...]
This is a really cool fan-made video for the Mute Math song “Chaos,” communicated solely through typography. I really like the song, and the video’s pretty interesting. Enjoy.
The song used to be available for download free on the band’s MySpace page, but, alas, no longer. I’m just mentioning this because I did download the song [...]
It’s pretty amazing that movies like War get huge marketing blitzes behind them while a film like Scott Frank’s The Lookout comes and goes with little fanfare. I noticed a small bit of online advertising for the movie before it came out, was intrigued by the trailer, but never made it to the theater to [...]
Before David Benioff become a successful screenwriter he was a novelist. 25th Hour, the Spike Lee film staring Ed Norton, was first a book written by Benioff, for which he did the adaptation himself, and it’s an excellent book at that. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend doing so (the movie is pretty [...]
Do you remember the band Silverchair? They made a slash here in the States in 1997 with some crap titled “Abuse Me” (with the lyrics, “Come on abuse me more I like it.”). Now, I was never a fan, because there was this other band that sounded just like them and had better music… what [...]
I know I said I was returning my iPhone, but as I mentioned I love having a Safari in my pants. So the other big news out of the Apple’s iPod redefining event this week is that they announced a $200 price drop on the iPhone. That’s a $200 price drop on a the iPhone [...]
As you may have heard, Apple announced an updated iPod line-up today. Here’s what the front page of Apple.com looks like:
There are two interesting things revealed by this:
1. For the first time, there isn’t actually a product named simply “iPod” in the line-up. It strikes me that the term “iPod” now refers to the entire [...]
Holy shit! This guy even has that crappy Unicron they made. Dammit, I want crappy Unicron!
I know they say “you can’t take it with you,” but I hope, just this once, that this guy can.
