Strike fallout has begun: They are filming an alternate ending for the Heroes episode scheduled to air on December 3rd in case it ends up being the season finale.
Researchers have found a way to make the catalysts for fuel cell batteries more efficient and cheaper - a critical step towards electric cars.
The meteor may not have been what killed the dinosaurs. New research is causing questions about the dating, and evidence is that volcanic gas may have played a role.
Mozilla and Microsoft are arguing about the future of Javascript. Be prepared for pages working differently in the 2 browsers.
A new magnet design could radically change nanoscience and semiconductor research.
JK Rowling has written a new book, but you can't buy it. She has made 7 handwritten copies of the fairy tale book mentioned in Deathly Hallows. One will be auctioned for charity, and she is giving the others away.
DVRs for tonight:
6pm Flash Gordon - some day I'm going to have to watch this
7pm Stargate Atlantis
8pm Blood Ties, Ghost Whisperer & Men in Trees
9pm Moonlight & Womens Murder Club
10pm Numb3rs
Friday, November 2, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
11-1-07
Electricity drawn from common bacteria in dirt. Sounds interesting.
The University of Ghent has come up with electric wires that stretch. This could allow for greater flexibility in electronic devices.
CNet has an article on the interconnectedness between Google and Firefox (conflict of interest?).
They are actually making a 2nd X-Files movie. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Chris Carter will all be involved and it will be released in July 2008.
Eliza Dushku has brought Joss Whedon back to Fox TV. They have signed on to make Dollhouse, a show about agents programmed with personalities for their missions. Dushku's character is starting to become self aware. They have ordered 7 episodes for the fall, but plan to start filming them in the spring (before the actors strike, assuming the writers don't strike first and leave them short of scripts). There's more info here, including an interview and a note that Tim Minear will be involved. (Hopefully that won't be a death sign for it.)
Heroes: Origins has been shelved. Concerned over a writers strike and the slight dip in ratings, NBC isn't going to make the show this season. They may bring it back next season, but this sounds like proof that NBC isn't going to air anything I want to see if there's a strike.
Womens Murder Club got an order for another 3 scripts. They left that order a little late.
Geek pumpkin competition. And a great gallery of pumpkins.
DVRs for tonight:
8pm My Name is Earl
9pm CSI & Grey's Anatomy & Supernatural (as a download or wait for dvd)
930 Scrubs (either this or Grey's will need to be a download)
10pm Big Shots
The University of Ghent has come up with electric wires that stretch. This could allow for greater flexibility in electronic devices.
CNet has an article on the interconnectedness between Google and Firefox (conflict of interest?).
They are actually making a 2nd X-Files movie. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Chris Carter will all be involved and it will be released in July 2008.
Eliza Dushku has brought Joss Whedon back to Fox TV. They have signed on to make Dollhouse, a show about agents programmed with personalities for their missions. Dushku's character is starting to become self aware. They have ordered 7 episodes for the fall, but plan to start filming them in the spring (before the actors strike, assuming the writers don't strike first and leave them short of scripts). There's more info here, including an interview and a note that Tim Minear will be involved. (Hopefully that won't be a death sign for it.)
Heroes: Origins has been shelved. Concerned over a writers strike and the slight dip in ratings, NBC isn't going to make the show this season. They may bring it back next season, but this sounds like proof that NBC isn't going to air anything I want to see if there's a strike.
Womens Murder Club got an order for another 3 scripts. They left that order a little late.
Geek pumpkin competition. And a great gallery of pumpkins.
DVRs for tonight:
8pm My Name is Earl
9pm CSI & Grey's Anatomy & Supernatural (as a download or wait for dvd)
930 Scrubs (either this or Grey's will need to be a download)
10pm Big Shots
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween!
CNet has a photo slideshow of the comet Holmes, which now appears larger than Jupiter.
RIP Robert Goulet. He died yesterday of pulmonary fibrosis while waiting for a lung transplant.
The Ratatouille dvd coming out next week has a special feature that is a first for Pixar: their first hand-drawn 2D animation. It is also their longest short film at 11 minutes.
The alternate trailers for Veronica Mars season 4 are now online at YouTube.
DVRs for tonight:
8pm Pushing Daisies
9pm Private Practice (Bionic Woman is pre-empted by garbage tonight)
10pm CSI:NY & Life
RIP Robert Goulet. He died yesterday of pulmonary fibrosis while waiting for a lung transplant.
The Ratatouille dvd coming out next week has a special feature that is a first for Pixar: their first hand-drawn 2D animation. It is also their longest short film at 11 minutes.
The alternate trailers for Veronica Mars season 4 are now online at YouTube.
DVRs for tonight:
8pm Pushing Daisies
9pm Private Practice (Bionic Woman is pre-empted by garbage tonight)
10pm CSI:NY & Life
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
10-30-07
Mercedes-Benz didn't want to install fire doors in their museum (it would look wrong with the architecture), so they created an indoor tornado to pull out the smoke in the case of a fire. It has been declared the world's largest artificial tornado.
Yahoo has an article on the status of the Writers Guild negotiations since the strike deadline is midnight tomorrow.
MIT scientists have found a way to use light beams as tweezers to pick up tiny objects.
IBM has developed a way to scrape circuits off silicon wafers with water (more eco-friendly than the chemicals or sand typically used) so they can be reused for solar. Recycled silicon will help with the global silicon shortage
DVRs for tonight:
8pm Bones
9pm House (I'm finally caught up so I can watch this) & Reaper
Yahoo has an article on the status of the Writers Guild negotiations since the strike deadline is midnight tomorrow.
MIT scientists have found a way to use light beams as tweezers to pick up tiny objects.
IBM has developed a way to scrape circuits off silicon wafers with water (more eco-friendly than the chemicals or sand typically used) so they can be reused for solar. Recycled silicon will help with the global silicon shortage
DVRs for tonight:
8pm Bones
9pm House (I'm finally caught up so I can watch this) & Reaper
Monday, October 29, 2007
10-29-07
They are going to have a half hour Shrek Christmas special on ABC on 11-28. Timing is to promote the DVD coming out 11-13.
Cute story of a couple who spent their 60th anniversary at the same hotel they honeymooned at for $10 (paid by their 12-year-old grandson) instead of the current $1600 because of an offer for people returning after 50 years with their original receipts.
Two Canadian astronomers have said that they don't think dark matter exists, and they have an alternate theory for how gravity works that explains the observations that have been cited as evidence of dark matter.
The Governor has signed the cord blood bills.
DVRs for tonight:
8pm Chuck & How I Met Your Mother
830 Big Bang Theory
9pm Heroes & 2.5 Men
Cute story of a couple who spent their 60th anniversary at the same hotel they honeymooned at for $10 (paid by their 12-year-old grandson) instead of the current $1600 because of an offer for people returning after 50 years with their original receipts.
Two Canadian astronomers have said that they don't think dark matter exists, and they have an alternate theory for how gravity works that explains the observations that have been cited as evidence of dark matter.
The Governor has signed the cord blood bills.
DVRs for tonight:
8pm Chuck & How I Met Your Mother
830 Big Bang Theory
9pm Heroes & 2.5 Men
Friday, October 26, 2007
10-26-07
The One Laptop Per Child project is experimenting with using cows as a power source to run the laptops.
Astronomers have identified hundreds of black holes that were masked by dusty galaxies billions of light years away.
The Senate has approved a 7-year extension to the internet tax ban, including wording that should protect email, IM & file storage that are not linked to an IP access account. The version approved by the House did not have that wording, so it still needs to go back and be approved there before it can be signed off, but they think they can get it done before the old ban expires next week.
NPR (online here) will be playing a 30-second scary story by Neil Gaiman tomorrow.
Cinemax (of all places) is planning a scifi movie-of-the-week series (which may become an actual series) about 5 aliens who crash to earth in 1863 and how they influence mankind's development.
CNet has a slideshow of robot photos from the RoboDevelopment Expo going on now.
Fuel cells powered by the heat in the air? It looks like it is possible and a New Jersey company is working on making it a reality. Cool.
Reaper just got an order for an additional 3 scripts. That means that either new scripts or a full season have been ordered for every new show I've watched except for Womens Murder Club and Big Shots. Although I find them somewhat entertaining (as long as Womens Murder Club doesn't try to call BART "the" subway again) they aren't my favorite new shows for the season, so I think the season is starting well. Knowing how networks work, I expected to have a new favorite killed after 3 weeks.
While trying to find out why the 3rd season dvd for Battlestar Galactica is being delayed until April 2008, it was discovered that the 4th season won't be starting in January or February like we expected. It will be starting in April, so the dvd timing is to link them together.
DVRs for tonight:
6pm Flash Gordon
7pm Stargate Atlantis
8pm Blood Ties & Ghost Whisperer
9pm Moonlight & Womens Murder Club
10pm Numb3rs & Men in Trees
Astronomers have identified hundreds of black holes that were masked by dusty galaxies billions of light years away.
The Senate has approved a 7-year extension to the internet tax ban, including wording that should protect email, IM & file storage that are not linked to an IP access account. The version approved by the House did not have that wording, so it still needs to go back and be approved there before it can be signed off, but they think they can get it done before the old ban expires next week.
NPR (online here) will be playing a 30-second scary story by Neil Gaiman tomorrow.
Cinemax (of all places) is planning a scifi movie-of-the-week series (which may become an actual series) about 5 aliens who crash to earth in 1863 and how they influence mankind's development.
CNet has a slideshow of robot photos from the RoboDevelopment Expo going on now.
Fuel cells powered by the heat in the air? It looks like it is possible and a New Jersey company is working on making it a reality. Cool.
Reaper just got an order for an additional 3 scripts. That means that either new scripts or a full season have been ordered for every new show I've watched except for Womens Murder Club and Big Shots. Although I find them somewhat entertaining (as long as Womens Murder Club doesn't try to call BART "the" subway again) they aren't my favorite new shows for the season, so I think the season is starting well. Knowing how networks work, I expected to have a new favorite killed after 3 weeks.
While trying to find out why the 3rd season dvd for Battlestar Galactica is being delayed until April 2008, it was discovered that the 4th season won't be starting in January or February like we expected. It will be starting in April, so the dvd timing is to link them together.
DVRs for tonight:
6pm Flash Gordon
7pm Stargate Atlantis
8pm Blood Ties & Ghost Whisperer
9pm Moonlight & Womens Murder Club
10pm Numb3rs & Men in Trees
Thursday, October 25, 2007
10-25-07
DVRs for tonight:
8pm My Name is Earl
9pm Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural
930 Scrubs (7th season premier - NBC)
10pm Big Shots
Bionic Woman now has a new show runner. The show runner for Friday Night Lights (who had also done Roswell) has been pulling double duty since Glen Morgan left. The new show runner is from The Sopranos, and I'm a bit concerned that it appears his only SF experience is one ep of Surface.
A distant comet has just brightened by a millionfold. Check it out near the Perseus constellation.
The Discovery Channel recently had a competition to explain string theory in a 2-minute video. Check out the "best".
Scientists have found evidence that Saturn's outer ring was formed by the destruction of a moon.
SciFi has ordered a pilot for Warehouse 13, which they describe as a cross between X-Files, Indiana Jones & Moonlighting. The actual description sounds more like a secret government version of The Librarian, but it could be fun. It was written by Rockne O'Bannon (Farscape) and has one of the producers from Battlestar Galactica.
A plant is being built in Massachusetts to make natural gas from biomass. Sounds like it will be cheaper to produce and better for the environment than traditional sources.
New technology gives us new privacy concerns to think about. As advances are made in digital photography, GPS data, and online mapping, photos can be tagged with data about their location. This is great if the photo is a real estate listing, not so great if you accidentally geotag photos from the party in your back yard. More on the issues here.
Slideshow from GE's clean tech labs. Interesting products being developed.
Lost has a habit of killing characters when the actors who play them get arrested. Let's hope that doesn't continue, because I'd hate to see Daniel Dae Kim leave the show even if he did make a stupid mistake.
Yahoo is supporting alternative energy with the goal of becoming carbon neutral by the end of the year.
8pm My Name is Earl
9pm Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural
930 Scrubs (7th season premier - NBC)
10pm Big Shots
Bionic Woman now has a new show runner. The show runner for Friday Night Lights (who had also done Roswell) has been pulling double duty since Glen Morgan left. The new show runner is from The Sopranos, and I'm a bit concerned that it appears his only SF experience is one ep of Surface.
A distant comet has just brightened by a millionfold. Check it out near the Perseus constellation.
The Discovery Channel recently had a competition to explain string theory in a 2-minute video. Check out the "best".
Scientists have found evidence that Saturn's outer ring was formed by the destruction of a moon.
SciFi has ordered a pilot for Warehouse 13, which they describe as a cross between X-Files, Indiana Jones & Moonlighting. The actual description sounds more like a secret government version of The Librarian, but it could be fun. It was written by Rockne O'Bannon (Farscape) and has one of the producers from Battlestar Galactica.
A plant is being built in Massachusetts to make natural gas from biomass. Sounds like it will be cheaper to produce and better for the environment than traditional sources.
New technology gives us new privacy concerns to think about. As advances are made in digital photography, GPS data, and online mapping, photos can be tagged with data about their location. This is great if the photo is a real estate listing, not so great if you accidentally geotag photos from the party in your back yard. More on the issues here.
Slideshow from GE's clean tech labs. Interesting products being developed.
Lost has a habit of killing characters when the actors who play them get arrested. Let's hope that doesn't continue, because I'd hate to see Daniel Dae Kim leave the show even if he did make a stupid mistake.
Yahoo is supporting alternative energy with the goal of becoming carbon neutral by the end of the year.
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