Literal Barrage

…'Cause American Gladiators is coming back to T.V..
I wonder if they'll bring back the gladiators' character names — Nitro, etc. — or whether we're in for something a little bit different.
In any event: w00t!

From ComiCon comes the wonderful news that Futurama is back with a vengeance as of late November '07. It will be back as a 4 episode per DVD, 4 DVD set, bringing the total to 16 brand new episodes which will also run on Comedy Central (over and over and over, I'll wager, given [...]

Submitted for your enjoyment/consideration.
A Demetri Martin "video" that's little more than a still shot with a voice-over. Still, it's pretty good comedy (and it beats taking the airlines):

The Robot Chicken Star Wars Special, Part 1:

I read with a good deal of sadness that Mr. Wizard died yesterday morning. For all of you youngsters, he was like Beakman or Bill Nye, oldschool-style.
His experiments were decidedly a low-fi sort of affair, but they were entertaining and engaging. I'm sure he's responsible for just as many engineers as [...]

Word on the street has it that your fall T.V. schedule is in trouble. Your Thursday night comedy lineup is critically-approved but audience-ignored, your procedural crime dramas are going nowhere fast, you canceled yet another Aaron Sorkin show (bad move there — I actually liked Studio 60…) and your only bright spot is Heroes [...]

Now that the unlimited invite version of Joost, the new Web 2.0-ish streaming "TV" application, has arrived, I have unlimited invites to drop. Anyone looking to get in on the beta, please just leave a comment in the comments section of this post.
It's pretty cool, I must say.

Tobias FünkeAnderson Cooper — nevernude? I'll let you be the judge:

Y[ou] can't be too careful, especially when you're high-profile anchorman Anderson Cooper. Cyber gossip Janet Charlton reports the white-haired CNN star regularly works out at the Equinox gym in the Time Warner Center, where he attracts a lot of attention from hard bodies of [...]