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  1. Re:What is farscape's appeal? by sammy+baby · · Score: 1 · on Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries

    Okay. In order:

    Why are there obvious muppets as main characters? Is this a Sci-Fi show or a puppet show?

    If you were Brian Henson (you, uh, may have heard of his dad?), you'd probably have some Muppets in your cast too. Personally, I found it a nice break from the "guy with some shit glued on his forehead" formula most other series take.

    Why is one of them farting an on-going joke? Is this Terence and Phillip?
    The plot justification: when angry, or scared, Hynerians like Rygel fart helium. Look, we all have our personal problems.

    The storytelling justification: 1) To illustrate that different species have some very odd dissimilarities. 2) Because although the show could be Very Serious Indeed, the writers demonstrated repeatedly that they didn't take themselves too seriously. 3) Because fart jokes are funny. You don't want to admit it, but they are. Deal.

  2. I will have to use this... by rickthewizkid · · Score: 1 · on GoboLinux Rethinks The Linux Filesystems

    ...since my servers are named after the Fraggles...

    gobo is my mailserver, boober is the fileserver, boober is my printserver and red is my web surfing machine.

    Just my 2-radishes-worth...
    RickTheWizKid

  3. Already being Tried! by pi42 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Improv Animation as an Art Form?

    I read this and immediately remembered when Brian Henson (Jim Henson's son, of Muppets fame) came and gave a talk at my school last year.

    One of the things "The Creature Shop," the company he runs, is working on, is digitally animated puppets which are played in real-time the way that a normal puppet would be. He didn't give too many technical details then, but I found this press release, check it out:
    http://www.henson.com/company/press/html/060601.ht ml

  4. Re:A word from the sysadmin by Comrade+Pikachu · · Score: 1 · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets

    Thanks for the info and the link, witten. Those readers who wish to bypass the high-bandwidth, flash-intensive opening page can use these links:

    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media1.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media2.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media3.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media4.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media5.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media6.html

  5. Re:A word from the sysadmin by Comrade+Pikachu · · Score: 1 · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets

    Thanks for the info and the link, witten. Those readers who wish to bypass the high-bandwidth, flash-intensive opening page can use these links:

    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media1.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media2.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media3.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media4.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media5.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media6.html

  6. Re:A word from the sysadmin by Comrade+Pikachu · · Score: 1 · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets

    Thanks for the info and the link, witten. Those readers who wish to bypass the high-bandwidth, flash-intensive opening page can use these links:

    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media1.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media2.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media3.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media4.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media5.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media6.html

  7. Re:A word from the sysadmin by Comrade+Pikachu · · Score: 1 · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets

    Thanks for the info and the link, witten. Those readers who wish to bypass the high-bandwidth, flash-intensive opening page can use these links:

    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media1.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media2.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media3.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media4.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media5.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media6.html

  8. Re:A word from the sysadmin by Comrade+Pikachu · · Score: 1 · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets

    Thanks for the info and the link, witten. Those readers who wish to bypass the high-bandwidth, flash-intensive opening page can use these links:

    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media1.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media2.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media3.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media4.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media5.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media6.html

  9. Re:A word from the sysadmin by Comrade+Pikachu · · Score: 1 · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets

    Thanks for the info and the link, witten. Those readers who wish to bypass the high-bandwidth, flash-intensive opening page can use these links:

    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media1.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media2.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media3.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media4.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media5.html
    http://www.henson.com/hdps/media6.html

  10. A word from the sysadmin by witten · · Score: 4, Informative · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets
    Hey guys, I'm the sysadmin who runs all the Red Hat machines that this article talks about. We've got four "rigs" on wheels, each with two shock-mounted AMD machines running a customied Red Hat 7.x with an RTLinux kernel. Each side of the rigs has a flat panel LCD and a keyboard. One side let's you puppeteer a computer-generated character on-screen in realtime with custom controls. The other side is for a technician to set everything up. Right now we're transitioning to a dual-processor rig with a single machine and only one keyboard.

    This stuff is really neat to see in person. Using HDPS, a trained puppeteer can create computer graphics facial animations in realtime that might take a team of animators several weeks. There are some images of our system in use available.

    You can email me (dhelfman at la.creatureshop.henson.com) if you've got any questions.

  11. Re:Warning, Heson's company has *EVIL* Lawyers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets

    Here is the mail for a lawyer at Henson:
    JPeterson@henson.com
    Please email him and tell him what you think of forcing PARODY off of SA's site.

    FIGHT THE POWER!

    Why in God's name is the parent marked as a troll? This is critical information, and probably news to RedHat.

  12. Henson Studios != owned by Disney by mattbadass · · Score: 2, Informative · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets
    For those of you whining about how Disney owns Jim Henson Studios, please note that this is not true. According to their website, they are wholly owned by EM.TV, which, as far as I could ascertain from their site, is an independent German media conglomerate of sorts. Whether this is better or not, who knows? :)

    As for Disney, if my history is correct, right before Jim Henson died, he was negotiating to sell the studio to Disney but, after his death, his sons nixed the deal.

  13. Damn!!1 by fruity1983 · · Score: 1 · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets

    First, Something Awful makes a Muppets Photoshop Phriday.

    Second, the Jim Henson Company orders SomethingAwful.com to cease and desist their Muppets Photoshop Phriday.

    The Jim Henson Company was using Linux to send that email!

    What does this mean, you ask? Well, folllowing an infallible line of deductive logic, it is not too hard to see that Linux is an evil entity, bent on crushing free speech. Damn you Linux!

  14. Damn!!1 by fruity1983 · · Score: 1 · on Linux Powers Digital Muppets

    First, Something Awful makes a Muppets Photoshop Phriday.

    Second, the Jim Henson Company orders SomethingAwful.com to cease and desist their Muppets Photoshop Phriday.

    The Jim Henson Company was using Linux to send that email!

    What does this mean, you ask? Well, folllowing an infallible line of deductive logic, it is not too hard to see that Linux is an evil entity, bent on crushing free speech. Damn you Linux!

  15. Re:Borked? by SeaCrazy · · Score: 1 · on Borking Outlook Express

    Actually, to heck with babelfish, using the only real translation tool.
    This is the correct translation:

    Warneeng: Tuo many cunnecteeuns ein /data/html/gnoøheter/maeenffeele.php oon leene-a 17
    Oønable-a to select database-a

  16. Meat Muppets by satanami69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on How to Navigate a Spacecraft to Mars

    Well, I guess it'd put a different spin on pigs in space.

  17. Muppets and Spa'am... by Fortyseven · · Score: 1 · on Hormel Gracefully Concedes On SPAM vs. Spam
    This coming from the same company that put the screws to Jim Henson Productions because of a name dispute.

    Bastards.

  18. Re:Is this the next generation Muppetshow? by sammy+baby · · Score: 1 · on Star Trek's Next Series

    No - the next generation muppetshow would have to be Farscape, which is, after all, co-produced by The Jim Henson Company

  19. Re:They weren't SOLD... they were optioned in Germ by cbquist · · Score: 2 · on Muppets Sold

    Wrong. They WERE sold. From the press release issued by The Jim Henson Company: " have signed a definitive agreement under which EM.TV will acquire 100% of Henson in a cash-and-stock transaction notionally valued at $680 million." Sure sounds like "sold" to me.

    Complete press release is here.

  20. Re:They weren't SOLD... they were optioned in Germ by cbquist · · Score: 2 · on Muppets Sold

    Wrong. They WERE sold. From the press release issued by The Jim Henson Company: " have signed a definitive agreement under which EM.TV will acquire 100% of Henson in a cash-and-stock transaction notionally valued at $680 million." Sure sounds like "sold" to me.

    Complete press release is here.

  21. Re:...also by Gleef · · Score: 2 · on Kermit the Frog to promote V-Chip

    Yes, The Henson Associates and all its trademarks, characters and images are owned by the Henson family (the closest you can come to the "estate of Jim Henson"). They were going to be sold to Disney, but that never fully went through. On the other hand, since Jim's unfortunate departure, the company has gotten frighteningly commercial, and works very closely with Disney.

    Regardless of whether or not Jim Henson would be against it, his survivors seem to be very much for it. It's a shame.

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