Torchwood season 3 has begun filming. Check out the article at Futon Critic for recurring characters who will appear.
Researchers using Google Earth images from around the world have found that cows tend to rest in a north/south orientation, showing they have an internal compass that nobody noticed before. Sources: Yahoo article, CNet article, LA Times story.
Wallace & Gromit are the new fashion models for British department store Harvey Nichols. It is amusing to see Wallace wearing something other than the same old sweater vests, but I hope this doesn't delay the next movie too much.
Cat story of the day: A German cat survived being walled in beneath a bathtub for 7 weeks. She lost 9 pounds, but has now (18 days later) recovered almost completely.
ABC has picked up 5 new shows for midseason. I don't know if any of them will be watchable, but they all have good cast/crew people. The shows are: "Cupid" (Rob Thomas is remaking his show from the 90s), "Castle" (with Nathan Fillion), "Single with Parents" (with Alyssa Milano, Annie Potts, and Beau Bridges), "The Unusuals" (with Amber Tamblyn, Harold Perrineau, and Adam Goldberg), and "Better off Ted" (with Jay Harrington and a writer from My Name is Earl).
It sounds like they might be building a carbon-neutral ziggurat in Dubai that could house up to 1.1 million people.
The script for Transformers 2 has been modified to include Shia LaBeouf's hand injury (which he got in a car accident last month) so he doesn't further injure himself completing the movie.
Looking for a reading list? Books that have had at least one nomination so far for the 2008 Nebula Awards are listed at nebulaawards.com. This is not the preliminary ballot, but it is likely the books making the preliminary ballot will be a subset of this list.
DVR for tonight:
Eureka
Greek (2nd season premiere)
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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.
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