Tycho over at Penny Arcade pretty much nails a one-line review of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse:

It's a science fiction retelling of MTV's The Real World, and it works about as well as you would expect.

Not only that, Tycho has pretty much nailed me as a viewer of Dollhouse: I keep watching in the hope that Whedon knows exactly what he's doing and that ( Read more... )

A young woman showing remarkable candor and courage in the face of imminent death, or opportunistic drama whore?  Discuss.

For those of you about to answer: "Who the fuck is Jade Goody?"

Every profanity uttered on The Sopranos . . . and nothing else.  It's almost hypnotic.

While Rhys Millen attempted to do a back flip in a truck on New Year's Eve and almost succeeded, this guy unintentionally pulls a double somersault in his race truck and nails the landing.

You've probably already seen this, but it's too Kafka-rific not to share ( Read more... )

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When Red is Black, Qiu XiaolongThis is the third installment in Qiu's mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau.  Chen is a complex, often conflicted character: a smart and conscientious police investigator, a loyal and fast-rising party cadre, and a romantic idealist with a taste for good food and poetry ( Read more... )

This is heroic:

If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended violence are alleged, we will - to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun's manifesto against the death penalty - no longer tinker with ( Read more... )

Three graphic designers use a bunch of WWII military gear, a station wagon and digital wizardry to recreate in four days what Steven Spielberg did with $11 million and 1,000 extras: the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach.  OK, maybe not quite so intense as Spielberg's work, but still amazing.

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I starred so many Autoblog entries in Google Reader today that I decided to roll them up here:

UPS is optimizing its "Package Flow" route-mapping software to minimize left turns, which could save it millions of dollars in fuel costs every year by reducing the amount of time trucks sit waiting to make left-hand turns.  (Hopefully they reverse the ( Read more... )

Last night mama_gryphon and I watched The Pretender 2001 and The Pretender: Island of the Haunted, two movies that aired on TNT in an attempt to placate fans howling over the abrupt cliffhanger at the end of the regular series, which NBC canceled after four seasons.  They were fun, although Island of the Haunted vaulted a shark or two in its attempt to blend ( Read more... )

I'm sure you've all seen this by now, but it still gets my vote as Most Fucked-Up Commercial of the Moment.