I loves me a good science fiction show. I loves me a good crime drama too. But I also know that the majority of the technology they use is exaggerated and unfeasible, even if it's supposed to be set in the present day. How, for example, does one turn a 2D image into a 3D one and use that as evidence when that requires making up data to fill in the ( Read more... )

The "Sesame Street" I watched as a child is a different one from today's. As this article points out, it's been cleaned up in more ways than one. Sesame Street today isn't completely suburbanized. It still looks like it's in the middle of a city, but it's not quite the same ( Read more... )

I'm nutters. I was commenting on the Andrew Keen, Stephen Colbert interview headlesspuppet mentioned and ended up writing a transcript. The video is on IFilm.

Stephen Colbert: Well, what is wrong with the Internets? I thought that was building our culture.

Andrew Keen: No, the internet is destroying our culture.

SC: Doesn't it spread our culture? I can go on ( Read more... )

I like The Soup on E! So what could bring me to watch the same network that airs that abomination of a program known as The Simple Life? Why, Hard Gay of course. Oh you wacky Japanese game shows; what do they put in your rice? At least it's not another episide of the Reality Melrose place show The Hills.

In more serious news, a 737-800 burst into ( Read more... )

One gift I got this Christmas was a book called Train Man.This is a true story of love for the internet generation - the international bestseller that sold over a million copies. This wonderfully unique book from Japan derives from a series of postings over a three-month period to a particularly computer-geeky thread of 2 Channel, the world's ( Read more... )

FriendittoLet’s begin with something called Frienditto. It’s the latest livejournal drama, and just in case anyone I know has used it take heed. So how does this self-described archive site work? According to what I’ve read, you provide the URL of a LiveJournal post, the site copies all the HTML of the post and comments, and displays it on the ( Read more... )

Sunday I spent a lot of time zoning out, thinking about people and friendship and life and love and death and anything else that would flit into and out of my mind.

Tomorrow is the day, and for that I'm rather excited, because closure is good, not that I expect many to actually care. If they did, well, never mind. People’s actions and words don’ ( Read more... )

I’ve been writing a lot of short fluffy posts lately, so prepare for a long one, although there's nothing very personal.

Today I watched the second in Sci Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica miniseries. Now let me first give you some info on the old 1970’s version.

( Battlestar Galactica 1978 )