I have noticed that CNN/CNN Headline News have begun “tagging” all of their news with helpful chronological crawler/ticker headline messages. These tags allow one to, at a glance, determine approximately how old the news they are being presented with is.…
Those JibJab cats (the ones that brought you the memorable This Land Is Your Land spoof during the ’04 elections) are back with another catchy video called “What We Call The News“. Check it out:
And you thought Jessica Rabbit’s underthings were something to get agitated about. Oops: TV favourite Mr Tumble is greeting toddlers by saying “I’m f****** you” in sign language. The CBeebies character says the gestures mean “I’m happy to see you”.…
If you followed the rabbit hole I sent you down last week, you may have seen the 30 minutes of ’80’s cartoon intros, you may have found yourselves viewing a more complete list of cartoon intros (parts 1, 2, 3…
Hollywood is officially, completely, 100% out of ideas: ABC developing ‘Cavemen’; Comedy pilot based on Geico ads. Winner for most unusual piece of development this pilot season goes to ABC, which has turned a series of quirky Geico commercials into…
Like, say, for instance, you’re watching Wednesday night’s Lost and you casually note that the ringleader of the gang of Phuket thugs that beat the crap out of Jack just happens to be played by none other than James Huang…
Warning, Children of the 80’s: You have roughly 30 minutes of fond remembrances ahead of you in the form of the intros to just about every 80’s cartoon series:
Heh. Total geek overload.
Presenting: Every Mythbusters Myth on one page, helpfully color- and letter-coded for your perusal. Note the vast number of “busteds” and the relatively small number of “confirmeds”. That ratio seems about right from my viewing of the show.
Glenn Reynolds pointed out the following highly interesting story over at SciFi.com today: Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer…
