Awright, before anyone get's too freaked-out: that is not the real Edgar Allan Poe in a pine box! But it is an incredibly life (or death)-like simulation created by Baltimore-based effects wiz Eric Supensky, commissioned by Jeff Jerome (looking on "Edgar"'s body) of the Poe House and Museum.A hundred and sixty years after Poe's ignoble death and hasty funeral, the father of...
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Dell closing Winston-Salem planet
The state of North Carolina and local governments ponied-up $208 million in tax incentives and other deals in order to entice Dell to open up its huge manufacturing plant in Winston-Salem. The place has only been in operation since 2005 and employs nearly a thousand people.Starting next month and on through the holidays, all of 'em are gonna be looking for new jobs.Dell announced...
Google celebrates birth of the bar code
And they do it the only way that those sly minds at Google could do it: by rendering "Google" into a UPC symbol for the day!Scan here for more about the history of the ubiquitous barcode.But of course, this day couldn't go by without a mention of what remains, more than thirty years later, the funniest/most spiteful UPC symbol of all time: the cover of MAD Magazine #19...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
I'm a "Creep"
This was the scene last night at Backstreet Buzz Coffee House in Reidsville during karaoke, when I performed Radiohead's hit song "Creep"...
(Incidentally, it's a version without the "f" words, like the "Creep" you play in the video game Rock Band.)Much like my infamous rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody", this wasn't done while trying to emulate the emotion of the original:...
Monday, October 05, 2009
First pic of Seth Rogen as THE GREEN HORNET (and something I'm dying to know about this movie...)
Here's the first photo of Seth Rogen in costume from the upcoming The Green Hornet movie...Hmmm... dunno. Nicolas Cage has already bowed out of this project, on grounds that the villain he was set to play was too "one-dimensional". And Rogen's duds look too much like a cosplay getup.But here's what I'm really wondering most of all about The Green Hornet movie: will the connection...
MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS is forty years old today!
Says what it means. Means what it says.In celebration of this momentous occasion, here is the obligatory "Dead Parrot" sketch...Think I'll pop in Monty Python and the Holy Grail on my DVD player (one of the first DVDs that I ever bought) later tonight ...
Windows 7 to come in Steve Ballmer signed edition
Can you imagine the "Mac vs. PC" ads that Apple is gonna think up for this one? But it's true: Microsoft is releasing a "Steve Ballmer edition" of the Windows 7 operating system, emblazoned with the signature of Microsoft's CEO. There's a catch though: it's only for those who host Windows 7 house parties (uhhh... a house party for the launch of an OS?). Also inside the...
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Okay, I am compelled to ask...
Why is Johnny Robertson dressed like Batman tonight?(Some have written to me asking if that's a bulletproof vest that Robertson is wearing on his show this evening. Hey, that might be. I've certainly never seen a getup like that worn on live TV before...)Secondly, does anyone seriously trust any statistics that Robertson and his bunch produce as "evidence"? These people have lied about everything conceivable. Robertson could claim that he's hired...
THE TWILIGHT ZONE is 50 years old this weekend!
On October 2nd, 1959, CBS premiered a new television series. Its creator, Rod Serling, had already established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the new medium.But for his new show Serling had something very different in mind. Eschewing traditional drama, Serling chose an anthology format that would not only entertain, but enthrall and tantalize and, at times, utterly haunt the viewer.So it was that on that evening, millions of viewers crossed...
Saturday, October 03, 2009
The only existing film footage of Anne Frank
From the Anne Frank House channel on YouTube...Here's the clip's description...July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her wedding, the bride lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39. The Frank family lived at number 37, also on the second floor.This...
Cad Bane: Best new Star Wars baddie in a LONG time!
Previously I'd noted that I've been late to the game so far as Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series goes. I'm now regretting it even more, because today was the first time that I got to see Cad Bane in action.What else can I say? Cad is easily the awesomest new villainous addition to the Star Wars pantheon in too great a long while. Everything about...
I've newfound respect for the Olympics
International Olympic Committee, congratulations: y'all did the way right thing in picking Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Games.I've never been to Rio, but have heard a lot of good things about that town over the years. Maybe this'll be a good enough excuse to finally check out the place ...
Friday, October 02, 2009
Doctor Emmett Brown has been targeted for termination!
Skynet needs more gigawatts!How It Should Have Ended is famous across the 'Net for their perversely funny take on well-known movies. This is one of their best y...
I can't label nothing no more...
Yours Truly has gone hogwild with the labels feature ever since I first started using it about two years ago: Blogger has told me that there's a 2000 labels limit and I'm all out.C'mon Google, we expect better from you! Fix this, please :-)EDIT 09:32 p.m. EST: Taking a looksee around the blogosphere, many users of Blogger are reporting problems with labels. I'm hearing that Google/Blogger implemented some "improvements" and that a restriction on...
U.S. unemployment hits 9.8%
Last month employers across the country slashed more than a quarter-million jobs, sending the unemployment rate in America precariously close to ten percent.So one-tenth of the domestic workforce is... out of work. Doesn't sound like any recovering economy to me. Heck, that sounds an awful lot like depressi...
Thursday, October 01, 2009
It's THE A-TEAM!
ComingSoon.net has the first pic of the complete The A-Team ensemble! From left to right we see Quinton "Rampage" Jackson as B.A. Baracus, Liam Neeson as "Hanibal" Smith, Sharlto Copley (most recently seen playing Wikus in District 9) as Murdock, and Bradley Cooper as "Faceman" Peck.Okay, minus getting to see the mohawk and gold chains of B.A., that looks pretty darned persuasive...
