Friday, September 7, 2007

Roundup for 9-7-07

How do you lose an 8-foot tall Lego man?
http://www.wnbc.com/slideshow/news/13841475/detail.html

The Bionic Woman remake has lost one of its producers: Glen Morgan from the X-Files. I didn't even know he was involved. I wonder what he'll do instead.
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-glenmorganleavesbionicwoman,0,7733827.story?track=rss

They're launching an online Myst game. Don't they know I still haven't gotten around to playing the last one?
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=6&id=43931

RIP Madeleine L'Engle. First Lloyd Alexander, now Madeleine L'Engle, the world has lost 2 great shapers of children's imaginations in one year.
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/005607.html

Firefox passes 400 million downloads. Some people recognize it is the best browser. :P
http://news.com.com/8301-13580_3-9773836-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

ITunes wants to lower the cost of TV downloads. Networks want to increase or have variable pricing. Do they not realize that by making their shows hard to find and expensive the are driving them to the torrents?
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9773787-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Telescopes nearly as far apart as the diameter of the earth working together to get a "global" view of a distant galaxy.
http://www.csiro.au/news/TelescopeNetworks.html

Adobe is working on an online version of Photoshop.
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9773731-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Article about the upcoming Singularity Summit, where people will discuss things like what we will do when machines out-think us.
http://news.com.com/Coming+to+grips+with+intelligent+machines/2100-11394_3-6206637.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

Complete original Outer Limits is a boxed set DVD for a limited time. Hmmmm... tempting.
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=8021

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