DVRs for tonight:
8pm My Name is Earl
9pm CSI & Grey's Anatomy & Supernatural
10pm Big Shots
David Sutcliffe (Christopher from Gilmore Girls) is joining the cast of Private Practice.
The main writer/producer promises that Sara (Jorja Fox) will be coming back to CSI.
RIP Deborah Kerr. The actress from The King & I, The Prizoner of Zenda, Affair to Remember, etc.... has died at 86. TCM has changed their schedule to play 2 of her movies this Sunday.
The new Star Trek cast is now complete. Rumored casting of Chris Pine for Kirk and Karl Urban for Bones have been confirmed.
The 2-hour "Christmas" episode of The Closer will air on Monday, December 3rd at 8pm.
The results are in from the high tech scan of the Mona Lisa. It appears she did have eyelashes & brows at some point, but they faded or were "cleaned" off.
Comedy Central is launching thedailyshow.com with 13,000 videos covering the entire run of Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. This is their challenge to YouTube.
A team from Arizona State University has found evidence of early humans along the coast of South Africa dating back 164,000 years (about 40,000 years earlier than any evidence had shown before). They've made some interesting discoveries about the development of mankind. Another article can be found here.
UK researchers have turned stem cells from fat into nerve cells and plan to use a biodegradable polymer to place these cells where they can act as an artificial nerve and bridge the gap in damaged nerves for limbs and organs. Treatment could be ready in 4-5 years.
SciFi has greenlit a movie/pilot called Revolution which is about a colony world struggling for independence. It could be good, but will probably end up being lame.
60 percent of auto combustion energy is lost as heat. There are now people looking into adding thermoelectric generators to capture that energy and make cars more efficient. More ideas along this line can be found in the Popular Mechanics article.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
10-3-07
DVRs for tonight:
8pm Pushing Daisies (CW) - saw a sneak preview of this pilot and it is GOOD.
9pm Bionic Woman (NBC) and Private Practice (ABC)
10pm CSI:NY (CBS)
Another featured contributor to The Daily Show gets his own series on Comedy Channel, produced by Jon Stewart: Demetri Martin.
Astronomers have spotted a young star with a belt of dust they suspect is going to form into an Earth-like planet.
GrubHub is a new service in the SF area that shows all restaurants that deliver in your area (you give address, they list restaurants, show menus, reviews, etc.). You can even narrow results to "deliver now" which is useful when you're craving Chinese during a weekend afternoon and the 1st 3 restaurants you call don't deliver until evening (do I sound bitter?). Looking at my address, I find that Hometown Noodle delivers. Who knew? The article where I found out about it is here.
Don't watch this where people with sensitive ears can hear, but Robot Chicken mocks "Buck" Rogers.
A model rocket group have built a 21-foot X-Wing Fighter (they even included the R2-D2) and are launching it this week.
One of the potential new shows to be developed by Rob Thomas for ABC is a new version of Cupid (the 90s show with Jeremy Piven that started Rob Thomas' career).
Nick Park is making a new Wallace and Gromit short film called "Trouble at Mill" to play on the BBC late next year.
CNet has a slideshow of private industry players in space travel.
Rant warning: Copyright issues have gotten completely ridiculous. (As a disclaimer: I will never be the focus of their concern because I don't care that much about music. Most of the music I listen to is on the radio in my car, on a satellite channel from DishNetwork, or on Launchcast from Yahoo. I haven't even played a CD in over a year and I don't own a digital player.) That being said, Sony now says it is stealing if you rip a CD that you bought to play in an iPod for your own use - you should pay for a digital copy as well as the CD copy. All earlier decisions said it was OK to make a back up copy for yourself for your listening - you aren't going to be playing them both at the same time. This is the same Sony that pissed people off a year or 2 ago by putting copyguards on their CDs that acted as viruses. They just make me want to boycott them completely.
They've identified a new dinosaur in Utah: a giant duck-billed vegetarian they are calling Gryposaurus monumentensis.
In pain? Bring on the chili peppers. Research shows that capsaicin, the chemical in chili peppers, may be able to block pain receptors without interfering with other nerves or causing numbness.
8pm Pushing Daisies (CW) - saw a sneak preview of this pilot and it is GOOD.
9pm Bionic Woman (NBC) and Private Practice (ABC)
10pm CSI:NY (CBS)
Another featured contributor to The Daily Show gets his own series on Comedy Channel, produced by Jon Stewart: Demetri Martin.
Astronomers have spotted a young star with a belt of dust they suspect is going to form into an Earth-like planet.
GrubHub is a new service in the SF area that shows all restaurants that deliver in your area (you give address, they list restaurants, show menus, reviews, etc.). You can even narrow results to "deliver now" which is useful when you're craving Chinese during a weekend afternoon and the 1st 3 restaurants you call don't deliver until evening (do I sound bitter?). Looking at my address, I find that Hometown Noodle delivers. Who knew? The article where I found out about it is here.
Don't watch this where people with sensitive ears can hear, but Robot Chicken mocks "Buck" Rogers.
A model rocket group have built a 21-foot X-Wing Fighter (they even included the R2-D2) and are launching it this week.
One of the potential new shows to be developed by Rob Thomas for ABC is a new version of Cupid (the 90s show with Jeremy Piven that started Rob Thomas' career).
Nick Park is making a new Wallace and Gromit short film called "Trouble at Mill" to play on the BBC late next year.
CNet has a slideshow of private industry players in space travel.
Rant warning: Copyright issues have gotten completely ridiculous. (As a disclaimer: I will never be the focus of their concern because I don't care that much about music. Most of the music I listen to is on the radio in my car, on a satellite channel from DishNetwork, or on Launchcast from Yahoo. I haven't even played a CD in over a year and I don't own a digital player.) That being said, Sony now says it is stealing if you rip a CD that you bought to play in an iPod for your own use - you should pay for a digital copy as well as the CD copy. All earlier decisions said it was OK to make a back up copy for yourself for your listening - you aren't going to be playing them both at the same time. This is the same Sony that pissed people off a year or 2 ago by putting copyguards on their CDs that acted as viruses. They just make me want to boycott them completely.
They've identified a new dinosaur in Utah: a giant duck-billed vegetarian they are calling Gryposaurus monumentensis.
In pain? Bring on the chili peppers. Research shows that capsaicin, the chemical in chili peppers, may be able to block pain receptors without interfering with other nerves or causing numbness.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Roundup for 9-13-07 part 1
Morgan Fairchild will play herself in an upcoming episode of Men in Trees.
http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Exclusive-Men-Trees/800022149?rssDate=12345678
Jon Stewart will host the Oscars again next year.
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070912abc01
Google is co-sponsoring a $20 million grand prize (with $10 million in other prizes) for an unmanned moon landing by a private industry group.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070913/wr_nm/space_prize_dc_1
http://www.space.com/news/070913_google_xprize.html
By analyzing the orbit of Mars, they think it has had 40 ice ages in the past 50 million years (approx. every 120,000 years), with the wobble causing the sun to either dry out the soil or cause ice sheets to form right under it, alternating in location. Wow, makes life seem pretty much impossible anywhere remotely near the surface.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070912_mars_ice.html
Not all red giant stars act the same way. And some planets could survive the death of their suns. Could Earth? Doubtful, but it allows for some interesting speculation, and none of us will be around to know for sure.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070912_rgiant_planet.html
Vampire star found = article about a star that siphons gas from another star close by.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070912_neutron_object.html
For $1.3 million a year and the loan of their planes for research missions, Google founders will get to park their planes at Moffet Field. I think it sounds like a great deal for all involved (Moffet gets more funds to stay open and active in research, and Google gets airport access right next to their headquarters), but there is concern over just how many flights will be allowed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/technology/13google.html?em&ex=1189742400&en=d65a97aea29c0825&ei=5087%0A
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/BUDJS3IOT.DTL&feed=rss.technology
New water bottle filters anything under 15 nanometers (viruses are 25), so it can purify the grossest water imaginable without chemicals and can go at least 4,000 liters before changing the filter. Military agencies bought up his entire supply within 4 hours, but I'm sure he'll be making more soon (he designed it for disaster relief).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=3R3S1NAZ1X2NVQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/09/12/nwater112.xml
Solar aircraft sets records
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/10/1917254&from=rss
A stinky weed with an oily seed may be your next source of auto fuel. It is apparently really easy to turn into biodiesel.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/10/1734254&from=rss
Student film version of Rama. (I still need to check out.)
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/005624.html
http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Exclusive-Men-Trees/800022149?rssDate=12345678
Jon Stewart will host the Oscars again next year.
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070912abc01
Google is co-sponsoring a $20 million grand prize (with $10 million in other prizes) for an unmanned moon landing by a private industry group.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070913/wr_nm/space_prize_dc_1
http://www.space.com/news/070913_google_xprize.html
By analyzing the orbit of Mars, they think it has had 40 ice ages in the past 50 million years (approx. every 120,000 years), with the wobble causing the sun to either dry out the soil or cause ice sheets to form right under it, alternating in location. Wow, makes life seem pretty much impossible anywhere remotely near the surface.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070912_mars_ice.html
Not all red giant stars act the same way. And some planets could survive the death of their suns. Could Earth? Doubtful, but it allows for some interesting speculation, and none of us will be around to know for sure.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070912_rgiant_planet.html
Vampire star found = article about a star that siphons gas from another star close by.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070912_neutron_object.html
For $1.3 million a year and the loan of their planes for research missions, Google founders will get to park their planes at Moffet Field. I think it sounds like a great deal for all involved (Moffet gets more funds to stay open and active in research, and Google gets airport access right next to their headquarters), but there is concern over just how many flights will be allowed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/technology/13google.html?em&ex=1189742400&en=d65a97aea29c0825&ei=5087%0A
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/BUDJS3IOT.DTL&feed=rss.technology
New water bottle filters anything under 15 nanometers (viruses are 25), so it can purify the grossest water imaginable without chemicals and can go at least 4,000 liters before changing the filter. Military agencies bought up his entire supply within 4 hours, but I'm sure he'll be making more soon (he designed it for disaster relief).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=3R3S1NAZ1X2NVQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/09/12/nwater112.xml
Solar aircraft sets records
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/10/1917254&from=rss
A stinky weed with an oily seed may be your next source of auto fuel. It is apparently really easy to turn into biodiesel.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/10/1734254&from=rss
Student film version of Rama. (I still need to check out.)
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/005624.html
Monday, August 20, 2007
8-20-07
Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) is going to have an arc on Heroes this season!
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-kristenbelljoinsheroes,0,1160536.story?track=rss
The actress joining CSI has been named: Jessica Lucas. (I've only seen her in one small role, so I have no idea how she'll do.) They're still not actually saying if Jorja Fox is leaving.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/tv_nm/csi_dc_1
More detailed article/interview about the non-green-screen Iraq on the Daily Show (which I think starts tonight).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/tv_nm/dailyshow_dc_2
There's a lot more SF&F audio online than I thought. Here's a page that links to some.
http://www.sffaudio.com/OnlineAudio.html
It looks like JK Rowling's next book will be a detective novel.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=43390
Seth Green interview about Robot Chicken.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12600713
They just found 5000 year old chewing gum. Apparently the birch tar had antiseptic properties that would help with infections, but I don't want to chew on anything that will still be around in 5000 years.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/20/1534227&from=rss
Here's a truly horrifying article. An act signed in 2005 going into effect May 2008 will require us all to have Big Brother style "Real ID" Drivers Licenses that link to birth certificate, SSN, photo, and address (requiring a trip to DMV with all the paperwork to prove this for EVERYONE) or - for states that don't go along with this program - we will have to carry passports to fly a domestic plane or enter a federal building or national park.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/16/real.id/index.html
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-kristenbelljoinsheroes,0,1160536.story?track=rss
The actress joining CSI has been named: Jessica Lucas. (I've only seen her in one small role, so I have no idea how she'll do.) They're still not actually saying if Jorja Fox is leaving.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/tv_nm/csi_dc_1
More detailed article/interview about the non-green-screen Iraq on the Daily Show (which I think starts tonight).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/tv_nm/dailyshow_dc_2
There's a lot more SF&F audio online than I thought. Here's a page that links to some.
http://www.sffaudio.com/OnlineAudio.html
It looks like JK Rowling's next book will be a detective novel.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=43390
Seth Green interview about Robot Chicken.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12600713
They just found 5000 year old chewing gum. Apparently the birch tar had antiseptic properties that would help with infections, but I don't want to chew on anything that will still be around in 5000 years.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/20/1534227&from=rss
Here's a truly horrifying article. An act signed in 2005 going into effect May 2008 will require us all to have Big Brother style "Real ID" Drivers Licenses that link to birth certificate, SSN, photo, and address (requiring a trip to DMV with all the paperwork to prove this for EVERYONE) or - for states that don't go along with this program - we will have to carry passports to fly a domestic plane or enter a federal building or national park.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/16/real.id/index.html
Friday, August 17, 2007
8-17-07
Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle is going to do a series of reports from the REAL Iraq, not the green-screen version they usually have.
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-dailyshowiniraq,0,2870000.story?track=rss
The Closer season finale will guest star Larry King, a California congresswoman, and 2 Court TV analysts, all as themselves.
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070817tnt01
A Cancun resort tried to kick out a Nobel Peace Prize winner because she was wearing a Maya dress and they thought that meant she was a bag lady. There is some definite irony over a resort that caters to people coming to see Mayan ruins discriminates against indigenous people, and that someone honored for defending human rights should get treated like those who needed her help. Clearly there is a long way to go.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2150467,00.html
2 German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light. Others claim the results were misinterpreted, but it is still cool.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/17/1153252&from=rss
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-dailyshowiniraq,0,2870000.story?track=rss
The Closer season finale will guest star Larry King, a California congresswoman, and 2 Court TV analysts, all as themselves.
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070817tnt01
A Cancun resort tried to kick out a Nobel Peace Prize winner because she was wearing a Maya dress and they thought that meant she was a bag lady. There is some definite irony over a resort that caters to people coming to see Mayan ruins discriminates against indigenous people, and that someone honored for defending human rights should get treated like those who needed her help. Clearly there is a long way to go.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2150467,00.html
2 German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light. Others claim the results were misinterpreted, but it is still cool.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/17/1153252&from=rss
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