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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Classic STAR TREK episodes on YouTube

Tonight at 7 p.m. will herald the wide release of J.J. Abrams' wildly-anticipated Star Trek movie. But while we're ticking down the hours, how 'bout revisiting the show that started it all: YouTube is hosting most of the episodes of the original Star Trek series.Among the classic episodes: "Amok Time" (Spock must return to Vulcan to satisfy his sexual urges or die trying),...

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Les Misérables: Customers angry after some KFCs can't honor Oprah coupons

I first heard about this on the Twitter feeds earlier this evening and wondered then what this was about. Now we know...Oprah Winfrey's website ran a promotion with KFC, offering coupons for 24 hours. The coupons were worth two pieces of grilled chicken, two individual side items and a biscuit.Except several KFCs were reportedly unable to honor the coupons. Some locations...

Reaction to tonight's LOST: "Follow the Leader"

Last year's penultimate episode jaw-dropping final line of dialogue: "He wants us to move the Island."This year's penultimate episode jaw-dropping final line of dialogue: "So I can kill him."(As if what happened in the 59 minutes preceding it weren't awesome enough.)If you haven't gotten into Lost yet, you've still got 8 months to buy the DVDs or watch 'em streaming online or do whatever the heck you can to catch up.Because folks: television like...

Massive GEARS OF WAR 2 DLC retail pack coming in July (including new single-player content!)

Arriving in retail stores on July 28th is the Gears of War 2 All Fronts Collection: a compilation of all the multiplayer maps that have been released so far along with a new set called "Dark Corners". It'll sell for $20.What's really got me stoked about this however is that the All Fronts Collection will include "Road to Ruin", a new campaign chapter that can be played solo or co-op.Hey, Epic Games and Microsoft: a lot of us out here are very excited...

World's oldest ground discovered in Israel

The next time you hear someone speak of a thing as being "old as dirt", now you'll have some context for it...Deep in the Negev Desert of Israel, scientists have discovered what is being called the oldest patch of exposed ground in the world. It's been dated at around 1.8 million years old.Pretty humbling, aye? To know that there are still places in this world that defy...

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Churches that say "Amen!" to Twitter

Not so long ago, for a person to employ a BlackBerry or an iPhone during a worship service was deemed the height of irreverence. But increasingly it's not only grown acceptable, it's becoming encouraged.Time Magazine has a story about churches that have adopted Twitter - the micro-blogging utility that's become all the rage - as a a tool for edifying, evangelism and Bible...

Dom DeLuise has passed away

The very sad news just broke that Dom DeLuise has passed away at the age of 75.Once upon a time, this guy was everywhere! DeLuise played Buddy Bizarre, the movie director toward the end of Blazing Saddles (yeah the one who got punched in the gut by Slim Pickens). DeLuise did a bunch of other movies for Mel Brooks too, like Spaceballs (as the voice of Pizza the Hutt) and...

Monday, May 04, 2009

Tale of the Zombie Sea-Monkeys

A little over a month ago I was in Greensboro on some afternoon's business. While there I went into that new Target store on the north side of town, more or less to oggle the Star Wars toys (and if need be to straighten them up and make them look neat and tidy, 'cuz that's what all his friends do now that Darth Larry is on the other side of the country... but that's a story...

Ever see SUPERMAN III and OFFICE SPACE?

Remember how Richard Pryor's character Gus Gorman in Superman III (an "under-rated" film, as the guy in Office Space says) used his hackin' skillz to embezzle all that money from the company he worked at? Okay well...A now-retired aerospace engineer discovered forty years ago that he was being overpaid by 2 cents an hour. He suggested a way to fix the discrepancy, but it got lost in bureaucratic bungling.And now, four full decades later later,...

I knew he couldn't stay away forever

The greatest curmudgeon of the Internet - and probably the modern world - has returned.Actually, Fred Reed has been back at it for over a month now from the looks of it. He announced in February that he was retiring... but nature does abhor a vacuum, right?So Reed is at it again, and in his latest work he offers his unique insight regarding the death of the journalism industry.Here's an excerpt...A story once might have begun, “At midafternoon Thursday...

The Google Goats

In an effort to encourage "a more carbon-friendly, less polluting alternative to lawn mowers", Google has turned to employing goats to chew down the excessive vegetation on its sprawling California campus.Here are the Google Goats hard at work...The idea isn't entirely without precedent. During the World War I years First Lady Edith Wilson kept the White House lawn "mowed"...

Sunday, May 03, 2009

THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM: The most beautiful fan film I have EVER seen!

Ever since I began my own forays into filmmaking, it's become one of my personal missions in life to encourage others to make their own movies too. And you wanna know why?Because the time has finally arrived when every person can make a movie that stands on par with anything that the major studios can produce.Seriously. Think about it: high-def consumer camcorders are now...

MAKE MINE FREEDOM: Amazing insight from a 1958 cartoon

Just over fifty years ago, Harding College produced a series of films "to create a deeper understanding" of American culture. This one, Make Mine Freedom, has been "re-discovered" in recent days and is making the rounds quite a bit across the Internet. Personally, I found it to be uncannily prophetic about the country we are living in today. Perhaps we should begin considering the wisdom of the past.Here is Make Mine Freedom...

My first-ever text message from a mobile device

Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon I finally broke down and got a new cell phone. At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I had only the vaguest sense of what mobile technology is capable of doing these days, like "Bluetooth" and such.And then there is text messaging. Something that I have never done before in my entire life. Not even once.Until tonight.I got the X-tc from Virgin Mobile (and I might treat myself to an iPhone if... something happens...

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Jack Kemp has passed away

Jack Kemp was one of the best people in modern American politics who never became President.I'll be even more blunt: when the 1996 elections came around, Kemp was the only reason why I not only voted for Bob Dole, but put up a huge campaign sign for "Dole-Kemp" in our front apartment window (yeah my roomie was rootin' for 'em too).And I can't help but wonder: if he had been...

Swine flu has FINALLY infected swine!

It's taken more than a week, but tonight the first confirmed case of the swine flu infecting REAL swine has been reported.The plague-laden pigs were found in Alberta, Canada: a loooong way from what's thought to be the initial hot zone down South of the Border.Meanwhile, news agencies all over have been struggling with what to call the epidemic, since it's apparently "not nice" to refer to it as "swine flu". In the past few days there's been a dramatic...

Framed websites creeping back into popularity

Remember "frames"? That website design technique which a lot of us discovered during idle hours in a campus computer lab back when the Internet was still so new? Depending on how they were used frames could make a page look spiffy-kewl... or they could make it look like a fractured abomination.(To this day I'm still stunned at that one homepage that my filmmaking partner "Weird" Ed came up with. Just how many frames did you cram into that, Ed?...